THE EXPERIENCE ONE CAMPAIGN

IN SUPPORT OF MONTANA WESTERN

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$13,000,000.00
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We have raised $17,582,610.00 of our $13,000,000.00  goal.

Thank you for helping us reach this extraordinary goal.

- CAMPAIGN INITIATIVES -

  • SCHOLARSHIPS

    Your investment in our Scholarship Fund helps ensure that financial barriers do not prevent deserving students from earning a degree, while providing the University with the strength and flexibility to strategically build a diverse student body.

    On average, 80% of Montana Western students are TRiO eligible, which means they fall into one or more of the following categories: first-generation, documented disability, or low-income. The ability to provide scholarship support is often transformative for our students, turning the goal of earing a college degree into a reality.  

  • FUND FOR EXPERIENCE ONE

    Your investment in the Fund for Experience One ensures that academic opportunities extend well beyond the traditional classroom by empowering faculty to design real-world experiences that inspire academic achievement and career preparedness, providing each student with a professional advantage for career placement. 

    The Experience One departmental award is offered based on course enrollment or FTE (Full-time Equivalent). The Experience One campus collaboration award is offered based on interdisciplinary collaboration across campus. These awards offset program costs associated with experiential programming that is not funded by state and/or tuition resources.

  • STUDENT WELLNESS CENTER

    Your investment in the Student Wellness Center will ensure overall well-being for our students.

    The truth is, you can study around the clock. You can make great friendships. You can partner with excellent professors who will help you take your learning to the next level, but none of that matters if your physical, mental or spiritual health gives out before you complete your degree.

    Montana Western students deserve a modern facility to promote overall wellness. In fact, our students understand the importance of this so well, they are investing a student fee to create this vital space. We want to support them in their efforts by supplementing this fee with private gifts to not only make the space possible but to help provide equipment and programming that will keep our student healthy. Staying healthy in mind, body and spirit is crucial to the student experience.

  • BULLDOG SPORTS & ACTIVITIES COMPLEX

    Your support of the Sports and Activities Complex will ensure that we have a vibrant campus experience for students, alumni, and the community.

    Montana Western is the only four-year university in the state without an on-campus stadium. From the university’s perspective, this is a strategic investment that will significantly enhance the student’s campus experience and strengthen campus-community relationships.

    The value of bringing the game-day experience to campus is essential as it relates to student recruitment and retention, as well as alumni and community engagement.

The "Experience One" campaign, focused completely on our students' experience, is our most ambitious fundraising campaign to date. Just as Montana Western students and alumni have a legacy of impacting those they teach, serve, and work with forever, Experience One will impact the University of Montana Western forever.  

 

The year 2023 marks the twentieth year of Experience One. The transformation to experiential learning, one course at a time, has taken this university from one threatened with closure due to low enrollment to one that is becoming known in our state, region, and nationally as one of the successful innovators in higher education today. 

Moving forward, it is time to intentionally and concertedly build on our past successes, make investments, and take actions to reach our fullest potential. Let us make the most of the opportunity before us and build on the promise: for students, for the university, and for the community. Let us be bold and disciplined in our actions and wholly commit to the objectives initially set forth in our Strategic Plan. In order to achieve these objectives, the Experience One Campaign seeks to secure $13 million dollars. 

THE CAMPAIGN TO ENHANCE OUR STUDENT'S EXPERIENCE

THERE IS NO IMPACT WITHOUT ACTION

SUPPORT FOR THE SPORTS & ACTIVITIES COMPLEX WILL TRANSFORM THE MONTANA WESTERN CAMPUS