Investing in Our Future, our annual report for the 2016-17 fiscal year, salutes the many accolades and academic achievements of our stellar faculty and talented students over the past year, underscoring the College’s stability and strategic plan progress.
During 2016-17, markers of academic excellence continued at SMC. Our professors were recognized for their exemplary scholarship and we received accolades for our curricula, faculty-student interactions, and educational environment.
Lisa Moore, vice president of advancement, celebrates a year marked by a changing culture of philanthropic investment, which includes an 85 percent increase in giving, four gifts of $1 million or more, and the most successful 1Day1SMC ever.
The College's new commercial, launched in February across all digital platforms, tells our story with energy and purpose to help students and parents make the right choice.
Susan Wallace, vice president for finance and administration, reports on the 2016-17 fiscal year results, which marked a 13.5 percent total return on the endowment funds.
Longtime donor and volunteer Garth Flint '63 has always felt driven to give back to the Christian Brothers and the College that did so much for him. “I remember thinking at the time that if there’s a way to give back, I will."
Alumni, parents, and friends have donated generously to fund endowments and scholarships supporting diversity and inclusion, like the Moonlight Scholarship, inspired by High Potential alumnus and Academy Award–winner Mahershala Ali '96.
Charlene Harvey, who with her late husband James, spent years collecting early 19th-century Northern California landscapes by artists such as William Keith, has decided to bequeath a substantial selection of art to Saint Mary’s Museum of Art.
Saint Mary’s inspires students to be their best selves, in mind, body, heart, and soul. But this education requires investment from our supporters. Help lift up not just our students, but the world.