Capital Gifts

Funding Areas

:: Science :: Theatre :: Barn :: Residence Halls :: Fitness Center :: Viewshed ::

 

Dana science building

Maintaining our edge in science instruction is essential to our role in educating future women physicians, veterinarians, and scientists. The Dana Science Building has served Hollins students well for 40 years; however, improvements are needed to bring the facility up to date.

 

The old rooftop greenhouse, which has caused extensive and serious water damage to the building, has been removed and a new roof will be installed.

 

Modern chemistry equipment is needed, and biology, chemistry, and physics laboratories need to be reconfigured and updated to support today's teaching methods and meet safety standards.

 

Consistent with our commitment to sustainability, we want Dana to be a "green" building, itself a laboratory for student and faculty researchers.

 

 

• A gift of $7 million will cover the cost of renovations and permit the donor to rename the science building.

 

Theatre

Our theatre is home to a program of growing importance to our intellectual, artistic, and social life.

 

The theatre department’s fall 2007 production of "Paper Cup Ocean" was selected as a finalist in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The original, full-length play by Rachel Nelson '07 was one of five productions from throughout the southeastern United States showcased during regional competition in February 2008. The Association for Theatre in Higher Education subsequently honored the theatre department with a cash prize for "Paper Cup Ocean" in the national student playwriting contest.

 

In frequent demand as the preferred site for lectures and dance performances, the theatre is in need of upgrades to the lobby, restrooms, accessibility, lighting, and other amenities of the house.

 

We would also like to upgrade the sound and lighting systems and provide better access to the black box theatre so that it may be open to the public for performances.

 

• A gift of $2 million will cover the cost of renovations and permit the donor to name the theatre.

 

Barn

Hollins continues to field one of the nation's strongest riding programs. Year after year, Hollins riders excel in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association's (IHSA) national championship, the country’s most prestigious championship for college equestrian teams. Hollins has won the national championship twice and routinely finishes in the top 10.

 

In 2008, the team placed first in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and sent four riders to the national competition in Los Angeles. If Hollins is to remain competitive with other riding programs, we must enhance our current equestrian facilities and replace the 28-year-old barn, which has become outdated and outgrown. An updated barn with more stalls and horse care facilities will accommodate the growing program and increased number of horses we board.

 

A new barn is essential for the program's continued success.

 

• A gift of $1 million will cover the cost of construction and permit the donor to name the new barn.

 

 

 

Residence halls

Residence life at today's colleges and universities involves more than just a place on campus for students to live. Residence halls now are vibrant living and learning communities fundamentally linked to the overall educational experience.

 

Hollins intends to be on the forefront of these important changes with an inventive array of residence life options. Plans are to transform and enhance the campus by defining existing residence halls in new ways to give students diverse and unique housing choices. Plans are being developed to make our first-year residence halls, Randolph and Tinker, more comfortable, attractive, and conducive to building a sense of community. These buildings have not been renovated since they were built in 1955 and 1966, respectively.

 

Across Williamson Road from the campus, the apartments have for the last 40 years afforded upperclass students a more independent style of living. Today’s students, however, will be safer if they are located on the main campus. We hope to replace the apartments with new units on Parsonage Hill, across the loop road from the Wyndham Robertson Library. These new residence halls will be designed to mirror the traditional white clapboard residential architecture of the Hill Houses.

 

Each building will house 20 to 24 students and be configured as new apartments with single rooms and shared living spaces. The existing apartments could then be renovated and used to house Horizon and graduate students, visiting professors, and male guests.

 

Housing choices will still include the residence halls on Front Quad, which remain most popular with students. West, East, and Main retain their traditional charm with wide hallways, porches, rockers, and fantastic views of Front Quad. We will continue to upgrade the bathroom facilities, refinish floors, and complete other renovations in these historic buildings so that they are functional for students but are preserved with historical integrity.

 

• Each new apartment building can be named for $2 million, and other naming opportunities are available.

 

Fitness Center

When prospective students and their parents visit campus, they are looking for amenities that support the well-rounded individual, and for many that means fitness equipment. The A. Paul Funkhouser Weight Room in Tayloe Gymnasium was given by CSX Corporation in Mr. Funkhouser's honor upon his retirement as the railroad’s president in 1986. The room was partially refurbished in 2005, and the facility remains the primary cardio, weight, and resistance area on campus.

 

An expanded $1 million complete fitness center would give Hollins a recruiting edge with health-conscious students and parents and also enable the university to promote the importance of a healthy lifestyle to the entire campus community.

 

• A gift of $1 million will cover the cost of construction and permit the donor to name the new fitness center.
  

 

Viewshed Protection

Hollins has always been characterized by a unique sense of place - nestled at the foot of Tinker Mountain and surrounded on all sides by the vista of other mountains - which has in turn helped to shape the experience of women who have attended Hollins for nearly 170 years. Thanks to generous donors, Hollins was able to lead a consortium of interested parties in purchasing a portion of Tinker Mountain in 2006 and placing the land under a conservation easement precluding further development.

 

• A $1 million fund set aside for viewshed protection will enable Hollins to act quickly when threats to the Hollins environment arise in the future.
  

 

We will be happy to help you plan your gift to Hollins. Please contact the external relations office for more information.