Community Campaign on a roll

By Maria Piccioni

The Concordia Community Campaign has already hit the $111,000 mark in new gifts and pledges.

“We’re very proud of the continued commitment of Concordia’s faculty and staff,” said Irvin Dudeck, Concordia’s director of Budget Planning & Control. Dudeck and Reeta Tremblay, chair of the Department of Political Science, are the campaign co-chairs.

Over and above these generous commitments, faculty and staff contributed over $17,000 to the Frederick H. Lowy Scholars graduate fellowships, bringing the total of new funds raised to over $128,000.

Some of the new scholarships created to support students include awards in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and in design and computational art, playwriting, mathematics and statistics, and classics, modern languages and linguistics, among others.

Faculty and staff contributions from various campaigns reached over $270,000 this year, a 30-per-cent increase. The overall participation rate should also see a definite rise this year.

A team of more than 100 faculty and staff volunteers are helping on the campaign, whose theme is “Your support is priceless.” Solicitations will continue as the campaign runs through June.

Reeta Tremblay added, “The support that we’ve received from faculty and staff shows that they care very much about this institution and fulfilling student needs.”

The students, Reeta and Irvin and the campaign steering committee, would like to thank all those who have helped make this campaign a success.