A small but mighty school with an impeccable reputation, it's time to provide the Jandoli School the facilities to ensure that its future is as bright as its past.

Modern facilities and enhanced technology are crucial for our students to be able to collaborate, innovate and create media we cannot yet even imagine. 

Your gift to A Bolder Bonaventure will be the catalyst to a stunning renovation of Murphy Professional Building and will help shape our story for the future. 

Your investment will lay the foundation to:

• Transform the Jandoli School through enhanced technology and renovated facilities, an agency-like classroom, team rooms, a newsroom of the future, and a state-of-the-art broadcast production suite.
• Expand programming to immerse students in interdisciplinary learning.
• Create new scholarships for study abroad, internships, and conference opportunities.
• Foster faculty development and establish endowed chair and visiting professorship opportunities.
  

A St. Bonaventure education is wrapped around a liberal arts core. We believe it is important to equip students with not only the skills and knowledge to ensure success in their chosen field, but to provide them as well with an understanding and appreciation of how that pursuit impacts the world around them.

It's a values-based education steeped in the Franciscan tradition of inclusion, compassion, wisdom and integrity.

A Bolder Bonaventure aims to bolster these Franciscan and liberal arts traditions by undertaking a comprehensive refurbishing and retooling of Plassmann Hall, the building that for decades has served as the hub of instruction in the liberal arts.

Plassmann will become a showcase of education and collaboration — a vibrant destination point on campus. Plans include:

• Redesigning classrooms away from small, tight spaces with rows of individual desks to open spaces, with tables and furnishings that encourage discussion and collaboration.
• Relocating and co-locating academic departments and faculty offices to the building's upper floors to facilitate better student-faculty interaction and to break down silos that hinder comingling.
• Creation of several large multipurpose spaces equipped with modern audio and video technology that can be used for instruction during the day and for hosting evening lectures and seminars.
• Construction of digital classrooms with state-of-the-art equipment to facilitate virtual instruction and presentations.
• Creation of spaces that better accommodate unique programs, such as a mock trial area for the Center for Law & Society, and homes for the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies and the Native American and Indigenous Studies program.
• Reconfiguring of hallways to offer better opportunities for students to gather.
• Expansion of the Student Success Center to create a vibrant, welcoming area.
• New windows that will modernize the outward appearance of Plassmann and bring in more natural light.
• A new heating and ventilation system to allow for year-round comfort and control.
• New HVAC, paint, carpeting and office furniture, along with equipment and furniture in the classrooms, of offer a "refresh" for the Plassmann Annex, home of the School of Education.

In addition, plans are in motion to renovate the basement of De La Roche Hall and the psychology research space on the first floor of the building.

Our Franciscan charism calls us to inspire the soul.

Through the campaign's success to date, we have already renovated the University Chapel, renewing the main worship space to create a welcoming and hospitable environment that speaks to our generation and church.

Your support is needed to enhance faith through liturgical programs, sacraments, worship experiences, and spiritual development. 

Franciscan Center for Social Concern (FCSC)

• Enhance the FCSC Endowment to ensure that Catholic Social Teaching is fully integrated into the campus community.
• Support programs like the Warming House, Bona Buddies, and service trips so our students can learn wisdom as well as knowledge.

Enhance the Community Endowment for Mt. Irenaeus

• Establish the Mountain Companion Ministry to invite lay people to live and minister with the friars.
• Welcome additional friars to live within the core community.
• Maintain Holy Peace Chapel, House of Peace, and other hermitages and structures.

Center for Mission and Identity

• Create an Endowment to establish the new Center for Franciscan Mission and Identity that will unify, forward, and coordinate mission integration across the campus.
• Ensure that the Franciscan charism flourishes at St. Bonaventure University to become the national epicenter of Franciscanism.
• Provide training for mission to our faculty and staff and empower them to integrate and utilize our Franciscan mission in their work.

It is costly to maintain these and other programs, provide robust financial aid packages to our students, preserve a student to faculty ratio of 11:1, offer more than 60 undergraduate majors and 22 graduate programs, attract a world-class faculty, and maintain a 500-acre physical plant. 

Annual gifts to The Bonaventure Fund help to support these and the many other reasons why a St. Bonaventure education consistently ranks among the Top Tier of Northern Regional Universities in the respected U.S. News & World Report College Rankings.