SoHE's Create The Future Campaign
100 Women Campaign
The School of Human Ecology has always been an intimate space on a large campus, a place where students work with faculty members one-on-one and a place where faculty freely collaborate with one another across departments, disciplines and decades. Our new 100 Women Campaign ensures that our new building with reflect these human connections. The campaign provides a means for alumni and friends to honor a woman for her contributions to family and community, and for her embodiment of the School’s mission to improve the quality of human life. With a gift of $100,000, an honoree joins the roster of 100 Women, who will be memorialized through an artful Wall of Honor in the renovated and expanded Human Ecology building. A growing number of women have already been honored, and this recognition has further extended their significant contributions to future generations.
“The reward – helping Human Ecology and its students create a better future – is life-changing,” said Dean Robin A. Douthitt.
Nancy Nicholas provides School of Human Ecology $8 million lead gift
School of Human Ecology graduate Nancy Johnson Nicholas and her husband, Albert “Ab” Nicholas, generously provided an $8 million lead gift for a new addition and remodeling of the school’s historic building. “The education that students receive is top notch, but the facilities make it very difficult for everyone involved,” Nicholas said. “Helping to create a new learning environment under one roof that will benefit the students, the faculty, the staff and the collections is exciting.” The improved facilities will for the first time accommodate all functions of the school within a single building and will meet the requirements for research, creative endeavors and education, and outreach. Nancy Johnson Nicholas on the 100 Women Campaign: “ I don’t’ think many women have been given credit for what they do, particularly older women who were raising their children when it was less common for women to work, yet what they contributed to their families and communities was very important. It’s wonderful to recognize some of these people who have devoted their life to their family and community.”
