Together, we can build on 175 years of excellence and make more possible for every Titan who comes next.
Honor the Past, Shape the Future is a historic $200 million campaign to strengthen the Illinois Wesleyan experience for generations to come. Through the generosity of alumni, families, and friends, we will open doors for talented students, invest in exceptional teaching and learning, expand opportunities for discovery and real-world experience, and enhance the places where our community comes together.
Priority One
Expand access to an Illinois Wesleyan education and give students more opportunities to learn by doing, pursue bold ideas, and prepare for meaningful lives and careers.
Explore Student Success
Priority Two
Invest in the faculty mentors, academic programs, and professional development that turn knowledge into wisdom and help students discover what they are capable of becoming.
Explore Academic Excellence
Priority Three
Create modern, flexible spaces that strengthen learning, living, wellness, competition, collaboration, and belonging across campus.
Explore Our CampusThe world our students will enter is changing quickly. New technologies, new industries, and new challenges demand more than specialized knowledge alone. They require creativity, judgment, adaptability, empathy, and the confidence to keep learning.
That is the promise of an Illinois Wesleyan education.
Here, students are challenged by a rigorous liberal arts foundation and supported by faculty who know them. They connect ideas across disciplines, put knowledge into practice, and develop the wisdom to use what they learn with purpose. This campaign ensures that promise remains strong, relevant, and accessible. By investing now, we can help more students experience the education that has shaped Titans for generations and prepare them to shape what comes next.
Every scholarship awarded, mentor supported, experience created, and space transformed begins with someone who believes in the power of an Illinois Wesleyan education.
Priority 1: Accelerate · Students
A funded research summer turned a pre-med hunch into a published paper — and a different career entirely.
Read StoryPriority 2: Cultivate · Faculty
An endowed professorship let one department recruit the scholar it had been chasing for six years.
Read StoryPriority 3: Enhance · Community
Inside the Petrick Idea Center, a student venture went from sketch to shipped in eleven weeks.
Read StoryWhether you make a gift today, fulfill a pledge over time, support a priority close to your heart, or include Illinois Wesleyan in your future plans, your generosity creates opportunities that can last for generations.
Support the campaign with a gift of any size and direct it to the area that matters most to you.
Extend your impact over time with a campaign commitment that works for you.
Learn about planned gifts, gifts of stock, employer matching, and other ways to support Illinois Wesleyan.
“We are not giving to a building. We are giving to whoever walks into it at seventeen and leaves at twenty-one knowing what they are for.”
“One professor stayed late with me for four years. Endowing a chair is the only way I know to make that repeatable.”
“Financial aid is the whole ballgame. Everything else IWU does well only matters if a student can get through the door.”
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