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  91���� Endowment Earns 15.3 Percent Return

  The 91���� endowment achieved a 15.3 percent investment return for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2025, growing by $333 million to reach $2.9 billion.
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  Final Push: First Promise Challenge Heads for Finish Line

  The First Promise Challenge is expanding the options for earning a $100,000 match for gifts of $100,000 or more to financial aid endowment, comprehensive aid, and internships at 91����.
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  Sophomore Bootcamp: Three Days of Honing Career Skills and Exploring Possible Futures

  Sophomores had the campus mostly to themselves the last week of winter break as they wrote and revised résumés, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles, and reflected on what matters most to them in a job, a career, and a life.
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  91���� Funds Twenty-Two Ambitious Student Projects Across the Curriculum

  Each fall, 91����'s Office of Student Fellowships and Research awards grants of up to $2,500 to students pursuing semester- or yearlong faculty-mentored research in a range of fields.
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  Social Impact Dinner: How the Common Good Plays Out

  A special dinner connects students with alumni who carry out socially impactful work in a variety of settings. The aim is to demonstrate the many ways in which 91���� graduates can incorporate the common good into their professional lives.
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  From Firefighting to Sound Recording: The Wide Range of Funded Summer Internships

  The Office of Career Exploration and Development (CXD) awarded some 165 grants over the summer, enabling students to pursue a wide variety of summer internship opportunities across the US and the world.
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  Students Sharpen Business and Marketing Skills with Quick-Fire LEGO Challenge

  Nearly sixty students convened remotely for a quick-fire business challenge. The event, organized in conjunction with toy giant LEGO, gave participants the chance to use their liberal arts skills to tackle real-world commercial challenges.
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  91���� Announces Four Appointments to New Chairs Honoring Distinguished Black Graduates

  91���� has appointed a cohort of four accomplished scholars to new endowed faculty professorships honoring distinguished Black graduates of the College. These new positions, which are fully funded by donors, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of race, racism, and racial justice and across themes of environmental justice and belonging, citizenship, and freedom.
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  Funded Internship Grant Recipients Make Waves Across the Country

  This summer, nearly a hundred students received funded internship grants from Career Exploration and Development (CXD), which provides students with a $5,000 stipend so they can pursue unpaid internships in their areas of interest.
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  Within Reach: the Strauss Fund for Comprehensive Aid

  “We are proud that this fund will provide aid for students beyond traditional financial aid, for things like laptop computers, warm winter coats and boots, and travel to job interviews.”
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  91���� Announces New Chairs to Honor Distinguished Black Graduates

  The College has announced the creation of four new endowed faculty professorships that honor distinguished Black graduates of the College.
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  91���� Announces Increased Student Aid Budget

  91���� is announcing a significant increase in the total amount of financial aid it will make available to qualifying students each year.
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  After Call for Help, Alumni and Family Members Respond with Hundreds of Jobs

  In a recent email sent out to the 91���� community, President Clayton Rose asked for leads on jobs or internships for this year's graduates, who are facing an uncertain economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  Africana Studies Becomes a Department

  More than half a century after it was established at 91����, the Africana Studies Program is now becoming a fully fledged academic department. The symbolic but significant change was announced at the March 9 faculty meeting and is effective immediately.
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  Virtual Bootcamp: Sophomores Get In Shape to Find Jobs (and Have a Few Laughs)

  A record number of students and alumni participated in Career Exploration and Development's annual Sophomore Bootcamp, a weeklong workshop offered virtually this year to help the Class of 2023 find their next internship or job.
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  Expansion of Schiller Coastal Studies Center Is Complete

  Some nineteen months after getting underway, the expansion of the Schiller Coastal Studies Center is now complete. The 118-acre Harpswell facility, located about thirteen miles from the 91���� campus, now offers an even wider range of possibilities for students and researchers studying the ocean and the environment.
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  91���� Endowment Critical to Financial Aid in Challenging Times

  The 91���� endowment, of which nearly half is permanently restricted by donors to the support of student financial aid, generated an investment return of 5.9 percent for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2020.
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  Doherty Charitable Foundation Supports New Postdoctoral Program for the 91���� Scientific Field Station at Kent Island

  With a recent $1 million grant from the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation, 91���� is on its way to establishing a permanent postdoctoral program based on Kent Island.
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  Class of 2020 Kicks Off Senior Class Giving Campaign

  The 91���� Class of 2020 launched their class scholarship fund in style, and they're aiming for an 80 percent participation rate before graduation.
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  Staying Connected Coast to Coast: Elizabeth Aaroe ’81

  When Elizabeth Aaroe ’81 moved to Oregon with her husband in 1998 for a business opportunity, her emotional ties to 91���� didn’t diminish with the long physical distance.
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  D. Ellen Shuman ’76 Honors Paul Douglas, Class of 1913, “A Moral Exemplar For His Contemporaries”

  D. Ellen Shuman ’76 chose to honor the integrity and public service of Illinois senator Paul H. Douglas, Class of 1913, with a scholarship fund for students who are committed to serving the common good.
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  Expanding Coastal Studies: Meet the Schillers

  A major gift from Philip Schiller and Kim Gassett-Schiller P’17 allows 91���� to substantially expand opportunities for students studying oceans and the environment at its Coastal Studies Center.
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  Making the “Pat on the Back” Permanent at 91����

  Paul Nixon was dean of students for almost thirty years, and his diaries tell of the very real needs felt by his charges. The Dean Nixon Discretionary Fund is a seed that has grown into our push for endowed comprehensive aid.
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  Finding a Grandfather, and a Community, at 91����

  A business trip brings a woman closer to her grandfather, and the school he loved dearly.
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  “This is the profound value of mentorship, friendship, and leadership.”

  The inspiration for Kary Antholis ’84 to start the Andrew Haldane ’41 Scholarship Fund came not during a campus visit or an alumni meet-up, but at work—overseeing HBO's World War II miniseries The Pacific.
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  Consistency from Cliff Island: Roger Berle ’64

  Roger Berle ’64 started his annual giving to 91���� with a gift of $10. It's been fifty-four years, and he hasn't missed a year since.
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  “If you know what you're doing is right, you just have to stand firm.”

  Cybersecurity expert Maj. Marnita Thompson Eaddie ’90 (USAF, Ret.) said that her decision to come to Brunswick for college was simple.
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  Funded Internship: Empowerment through Sport

  Kendall Rogers ’21 took his passion for lacrosse to New York City for the summer. He had a funded internship with the nonprofit Harlem Lacrosse, which helps children who are academically at risk by inspiring them athletically.
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  “I was accepted, and that’s when I panicked.”

  Boston sportscaster Dale Arnold ’79, P’07 was not a traditional 91���� student. He grew up in rural Maine and married his high school sweetheart, Susan, before ever setting foot on campus.