Rooted in Faith: Growing our Future

Rooted in Faith: Growing Our Future will raise the resources needed to enhance our campus, support innovative academic programs, provide scholarships, guarantee our athletic programs, and ensure a future that will make a Saint Mary’s education accessible to all. It is our students, our faculty, our staff, our alumni, and our greater family that provide us with inspiration and hope for the future of Saint Mary’s. There is a place in the world that will never be the same. Because of You.

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Rooted in Faith: Growing Our Future

presents an inspiring, hopeful and expansive $125 million goal for the vision of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. At a time when higher education faces incredible challenges, our benefactors and the greater Saint Mary’s community continue to amaze us with their loyal support and incredible generosity. We will continue to strengthen our Catholic identity, ensure financial sustainability, and expand opportunities for our students.

“Our comprehensive campaign, the largest and most expansive campaign in Saint Mary’s history, has aptly been named, Rooted in Faith: Growing Our Future. We launch this initiative with great trust and hope in Almighty God’s providence and we do so with a bold vision for the future.”

-Father James P. Burns, IVD, Ph.D., President

Flourishing Student Success

Our priority is every student's success and well-being, focusing on academic and personal growth. This includes raising scholarship funds for accessible education, supporting first-generation students with resources and mentorship, and enhancing Career Services to equip students for success after graduation.

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Enhancing Academic & Co-Curricular Experience

We are committed to providing an exceptional academic and co-curricular experience. Our diverse academic programs and innovative teaching prepare students for success, while vibrant co-curricular activities foster leadership, creativity, and personal growth. This integration creates a holistic learning environment.

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Growing Lasallian Catholic Mission and Endowment Strength

Our Lasallian Catholic mission shapes our identity, emphasizing critical thinking, problem-solving, character-building, and academic excellence. To sustain this mission, we prioritize endowment growth, ensuring future generations are empowered in their pursuit of knowledge, character, and service.

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Lifting Operational Vitality

By securing vital resources, we ensure exceptional education while managing costs and adapting to changing needs. This supports our Lasallian Catholic mission and financial sustainability. The Saint Mary’s Fund, Trustees Entrepreneurial Fund, and technology funds are key to enhancing our institutional capabilities.

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When you support Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, you support more than a transformational and innovative education. Enriched by the Lasallian Catholic heritage, Saint Mary’s is dedicated to awakening, nurturing, and empowering learners to ethical lives of service and leadership. Our graduates gain the advanced knowledge, skills, and critical thinking abilities necessary to be lifelong learners, successful workers, good neighbors, and ethical citizens.

Saint Mary’s makes strides every day to ensure its standing as a well-known top-tier national university that prepares tomorrow’s leaders. But the strides are only as powerful as the resources available to make them possible. With your investment, we can make a much bigger impact. Through your gift, we can support more deserving students through scholarships, provide more resources and diverse opportunities to academic programs, ensure the best facilities and learning environments for students, and so much more.

The possibilities are endless – how far ahead we go depends on you.

Rooted in Faith: Growing our Future