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The Campaign for Markese

Gifts to the College of Arts and Letters support students, faculty and programs to promote critical thinking.

Friday, October 23, 2015
Markese Jordan, an international business major.
Markese Jordan, an international business major.
A student in É«ÇéÊÓƵ’s College of Arts and Letters, Markese Jordan learned Arabic and studied abroad in Dubai to prepare for a career in international business.

His education was supported by donors to The Campaign for É«ÇéÊÓƵ, who have given more than $450 million since 2007 to scholarships and programs that directly benefit students and faculty in the university’s seven colleges and the library.

With total fundraising for the university at $635 million, students like Markese have many opportunities to achieve success and realize their career goals.

Recent gifts to the College of Arts and Letters include:
  • A $100,000 grant from the James Hervey Johnson Trust for Critical Thinking., the seventh such grant to É«ÇéÊÓƵ from the Johnson Trust
  • A gift of $122,000 from the Estate of Rosario J. Patti to support scholarships in the College of Arts and Letters
  • A $10,000 gift from the Szekely Family Foundation to support the Border Voices Poetry Project, which sponsors poetry fairs and places poets in hundreds of classrooms throughout San Diego County
  • A $5,000 gift from Campanile Foundation board chair Jack McGrory, ’76, to support the Jack McGrory Visiting Fellow Fund in the College of Arts and Letters
  • A gift of $5,000 from L1 Technologies to support the college’s Alumni Chapter Scholarship Fund.
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