ForeverGold

Winter 2017 Campaign Update

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Brenau University’s $40 million ForeverGold: An Extraordinary Legacy campaign is the largest in our storied history. The tri-pronged focus of enhancing Brenau’s historic Women’s College experience, expanding our innovative and leading health sciences programs, and providing greater access and financial support for students is positioning the university to influence countless future generations of students and […]

Class of 2020 Brenau Scholars

Grid of Brenau Scholars portraits.
The Brenau Scholars Program recognizes those who, as the Brenau Ideal states, “find satisfaction in being rather than in seeming,” and “find joy in doing rather than in dreaming.” The young woman chosen for this program use their talents, ambition and brilliance daily to pursue their goals, and to excel in academics, community service and [...]

A Golden Tiger in Paris

Madison Kosater poses for a photo of the locks on the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris.

Madison Elizabeth Kosater dreamed of studying abroad in France since she was 16 years old. A senior history and political science major from Macon, Georgia, Kosater’s dream finally came true when she received the $4,000 Denyse Marchesseau Endowed Scholarship for 2016. Kosater is the fifth Brenau University student to win the scholarship since 1999. Her […]

Welcome Home!

From left, Crystal Wang, Cathy Wu, Daisy Qiu and College of Education Dean Eugene Williams walk into the arrivals area at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

The first wave of junior year students from China’s Anhui Normal University arrived Aug. 19 on Brenau’s Gainesville campus. The 18 students are part of a special agreement between Brenau and ANU that permits the students to complete the first two years of their college careers in China and graduate from Brenau after completing their […]

A Community’s Legacy

Douglas Ivester, center, and Kay Ivester greet attendees during the dedication of the Mary Inez Grindle School of Nursing. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

With a new name for the university’s highly regarded nursing school and the completion of a new athletics park where the Golden Tigers national championship-contending softball team commences home field play in February, the name Grindle stands to become one of the most visible fixtures is becoming increasingly on Brenau’s Gainesville campus. The eponymous Ernest […]

Living Maps to Brenau’s Treasures

Docent points out details in painting to visiting patrons.

Did you know that one of the most interesting pieces in Brenau’s permanent art collection is a tissue drawing by a famous artist in which he explains another of his pieces in the collection? There are some people around who can tell you all about it. During the past quarter century Brenau University amassed one […]

Fun Makes the Difference for Trustee Pete Miller

Cathy and Pete Miller pose for a portrait on the front lawn of Brenau's Historic Gainesville Campus. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)

Peter D. Miller, the 13-year veteran chair of the Brenau Board of Trustees, started his career in the Georgia banking world in the early 1970s when it was a relationships-based, person-to-person business. Bankers did deals with people they knew virtually on handshakes and promises – letting all the paperwork catch up later. Like the saying […]

Summer 2016 Campaign Update

Campaign Update — FY2013 $9.0 million, FY2014 $17.1 million, FY2015 (includes launch of public phase) $21.5 million, Current giving level: $30 million, Goal: $40 million

Brenau University’s $40 million ForeverGold: An Extraordinary Legacy campaign is the largest in our storied history. The tri-pronged focus of enhancing Brenau’s historic Women’s College experience, expanding our innovative and leading health sciences programs, and providing greater access and financial support for students is positioning the university to influence countless future generations of students and […]

Campaign Update

Brenau University’s $40 million ForeverGold: An Extraordinary Legacy campaign is the largest in our storied history. The tri-pronged focus of enhancing Brenau’s historic Women’s College experience, expanding our innovative and leading health sciences programs, and providing greater access and financial support for students is positioning the university to influence countless future generations of students and […]

ForeverGold

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More than a year into the largest fundraising initiative in Brenau history, the ForeverGold campaign has exceeded 63% of its $40 million goal. How did we get to this point, and where do we go from here? The news was not merely good. It was great. Brenau University President Ed Schrader and members of the […]