Dartmouth College has announced that its eight-year Call to Lead campaign has surpassed $3.7 billion in gifts and received 60 percent undergraduate alumni participation.

The campaign, which officially ends on June 30, attracted more than 98,000 donors and included over $500 million in gifts for endowed scholarships, enabling the college to eliminate required loans from all financial aid packages. Since the campaign, the average first-year undergraduate financial aid award has grown from $47,000 to $67,000. Dartmouth is one of seven U.S. institutions to offer need-blind admissions to all undergraduates while meeting 100 percent of demonstrated need regardless of citizenship. All five of Dartmouth’s schools participated in the campaign, including the Tuck School of Business, which saw an 81 percent alumni participation rate.

Campaign funding also supported the establishment of the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies in 2016 and the addition of more than 500,000 square feet of academic, athletic, and student life space for learning and leadership development, including the Class of 1982 Engineering and Computer Science Center, which houses the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship, Anonymous Hall, and the Graham Indoor Practice Facility. The campaign has also funded major renovations of the Hood Museum of Art, the Dartmouth Outing Club House, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, and—led by women—Dartmouth Hall.

“Our community’s historic accomplishment—a campaign with $3.7 billion in commitments to date and 60 percent alumni participation—is a resounding affirmation of the core values that define Dartmouth and our aspirations for the future,” said Dartmouth president Philip J. Hanlon. “Ultimately, our success is measured not by funds raised but by lives changed and the impact we are having on the world.”

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