Reaching the World: A Campaign for Colby

To ensure that Colby continues to thrive as one of the country's finest small private liberal arts institutions, President Adams called upon the College community to embark on a comprehensive planning process. More  
 
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Giving Opportunities
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Endowment
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Facilities
The spectacular Mayflower Hill campus, long heralded as one of the nation's most beautiful college campuses, is in the midst of its most ambitious expansion since the move from downtown Waterville more than a half century ago.
Campaign News Campaign Progress
Fund Honors Tietenberg
Tom Tietenberg

Mitchell Family Professor of Economics Tom Tietenberg retired in 2008, but the textbook he wrote, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, remains a standard in environmental economics classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.


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Alums Honor Maisel
L. Sandy Maisel

Did a Colby professor inspire you, push you to accomplish more than you thought you could, or open the world to you intellectually? Have you ever wondered how to let that professor know how much you appreciated his or her efforts?


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Donor Profiles
Colleen Khoury '64 and David Karraker
David Karraker and Colleen Khoury '64

In 1998 Colleen Khoury '64 became the first woman dean of the University of Maine School of Law, making her one of only 25 women deans at law schools nationally at the time. She credits her family and upbringing with setting her character, but she says Colby is responsible for the way her life has unfolded.


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Gifts at Work
Mark Lederman '66 Memorial Student Research Fellowships
Researching Diseases Carried by Mice This summer four Colby students worked on campus as research assistants to Colby professors, thanks to the Mark Lederman '66 Memorial Student Research Fellowship.

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