Launch AU Campaign

Launch Fund

The mission of Anderson University is to educate for a life of faith 
and service in the church and society. This mission is more important today than ever before.

The Launch Fund will help resource several initiatives in our vision for 2040, outlined in our new strategic plan named Launch 2040. The Launch Fund will focus on people. The people who learn at AU, work at AU, and teach at AU.

President Pistole and student walking at Anderson University Indiana

The work to prepare for the future is underway

Moved by the significance of this responsibility, university leaders prayerfully gathered for an exercise in self-understanding, critique, and dreaming in the 
fall of 2022. As we corporately discussed the future, two piercing questions captured our imaginations.

Future Ravens born on this very day will arrive on campus in 2040. Will we be ready? What must we do today to ensure this university is prepared to answer our mission for these young souls?

And with this, the Launch 2040 strategic plan was born.

Cost

$5,000,000

OUR LAUNCH FUND PROGRESS

  • 36% 36%
$1.8M raised toward university goal of $5M.

The Launch Fund will help AU realize its goals

Our path to 2040 includes increasing faith development opportunities, relationships on-campus and in the community, strategic enrollment initiatives, and community service and awareness. Here are a few examples of the kind of initiatives that the Launch Fund will support:

  • Development of new degree programs and/or conversion of existing degree programs into new modalities
  • Promotion of connections to academic departments through student appreciation events
  • Mentorship training
  • Developing new new club-based activities such as Esports
  • Funding several work groups that will address specific initiatives of the strategic plan