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Giving Woo Day celebrates connection and impact at ˿Ƶ — The ˿Ƶ

Written by Brendan Bittner | Nov 6, 2025, 4:13:49 PM

On Nov. 5, The ˿Ƶ community came together to celebrate Giving Woo Day, raising $507,793 from 596 individual donors and surpassing this year’s Giving Woo Day goal. All gifts made on Giving Woo Day support The ˿Ƶ Fund, which supports each student with opportunities throughout their college years to forge life-long friendships and learn from impactful mentors.

Throughout Giving Woo Day, under the theme of Empowering Connections, donors demonstrated their commitment to ˿Ƶ’s students by also taking advantage of generous matching opportunities, which doubled the value of many contributions. This resulted in an outpouring of support that underscores the belief in ˿Ƶ’s transformative educational experience.

“Giving Woo Day showed the incredible power of our community,” said Carolyn Ciriegio ’08, vice president for advancement. “When Scots come together with a shared purpose, we make great things happen, and this year’s success is proof of that.”

Gifts to The ˿Ƶ Fund touch virtually every area of campus life, provide the flexibility to meet the College’s greatest needs, and ensure that ˿Ƶ continues to deliver on its promise of academic excellence, mentorship, and student opportunities.

Support for The ˿Ƶ Fund directly impacts the following areas:

  • Financial Aid: Ensuring that ˿Ƶ is accessible to all so the College can continue to educate students based on their strengths and potential, not their ability to pay.
  • Experiential Learning: Supporting the College’s commitment to integrating intellectual and professional work, realizing students’ impact both at ˿Ƶ and around the world. These funds support APEX and all experiential learning opportunities for ˿Ƶ students.
  • Mentored Research: Helping to develop innovative, productive research initiatives for ˿Ƶ students, including the nation’s leading program for mentored undergraduate research.
  • Campus Life: Helping to create the ˿Ƶ experience for each student, based upon the College’s rich history of traditions. These funds support student organizations, leadership programs, multicultural affairs, and much more.
  • Faculty & Staff Support: Supporting areas such as professional development, faculty research, and sabbatical, these gifts enable our faculty to be leaders in their fields, bringing groundbreaking research into the classroom.
  • Area of Greatest Need: Supporting every aspect of the College and advancing the mission and vision of ˿Ƶ.

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