INCREASE
VISION
In 2031 Wesleyan will depend on traditional undergraduate tuition for a smaller portion of its budget, which will allow the University to invest resources in its program, financial aid, facilities, and research.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTION ITEMS
- Reduce reliance on tuition
- Find efficiencies in “behind the scenes” operations
- Diversify revenue streams
- Grow endowment
- Provide steady pipeline of gifts to endowment
- Maintain spending rate below 5%
- Support investment team’s efforts to maintain top-quartile performance
- Support financial aid
- Increase percentage of tuition revenue devoted to aid
- Raise $100 million in scholarship funding
- Increase percentage of low- and middle-income students on campus
- Eliminate financial considerations in admission decisions
- Plan for improvements for a sustainable campus post-science building
- Convert energy infrastructure for renewable energy
- Replace least efficient student residences
- Improve use of campus year-round
Follow Our Progress: Stories of Impact
New Science Building Promises to be a Sustainable Hub for Innovation
With open and airy common spaces—including a glass-walled courtyard and cafe facing an outdoor plaza, Shanklin, and Church Street—Wesleyan’s new science building is designed to be a new campus hub. The 185,000-square-foot building is expected to be in use by 2026.
May 28, 2021
"A place where rich veins of thought and experiment would flourish... for the good of the individual educated, and the good of the world."
WILLBUR FISK
Wesleyan’s First President