Campus Update: St. Andrews University will permanently cease operations on May 5, 2025. 

For current students, parents, or creditors, please go to www.sa.edu/closure/ for

additional information.

“It’s a New Day at St. Andrews!”

$5 Million Campaign Focuses on Facilities and Scholarships.

February 14, 2024 / Jeff Robertson

By December 2025, we will raise $5,000,000 to renovate facilities and provide scholarship funds to expand our ability to deliver vital services. Our mission is to offer students an array of business, liberal arts and sciences, and pre-professional programs of study that create a life transforming educational opportunity which is practical in its application, global in scope, and multi-disciplinary in its general education core.

To retain our students and motivate them to carry out our mission, we must provide adequate facility upgrades for their convenience and to show that we value their investment. In order to operate and house residential students, we require an operational dining facility.  This is to ensure initial student enrollment and retention going forward. We currently have temporary kitchen trailers and a temporary dining facility.

  • Our immediate need is to transition to a permanent food service space from our current temporary trailer.
    • These trailers are past their serviceable life expectancy.
    • The cost implication is a 30-40% cost increase over a permanent kitchen.
    • Requires a permanent solution, not continuing temporary fix.
  • Students require a useful recreation space – a replacement for “Farrago” which has also been out of operation.
  • Preliminary studies have been done; final engineering prep work still needs to be completed.
  • The financial target for fixing our dining hall is $4,000,000 – not currently in our budget or in operating reserves.

Proposed Drawings and Design

Gift Expectancies

Institutions set their campaign goals based on a projection of the total amount of funds that can be raised from their donor base.  The chart below is a conservative, top-down model for our campaign.

Gift Range 

No. Gifts Required

Standard

Prospect

Ratio of 4:1

Prospects Identified

Desired Income

Desired

Cumulative Total

Additional

Prospects Needed 

 $     1,000,000 

1

4

10

 $    1,000,000 

 $   1,000,000 

0

 $        500,000 

1

4

20

 $       500,000 

 $   1,500,000 

0

 $        250,000 

4

16

60

 $    1,000,000 

 $   2,500,000 

0

 $        100,000 

10

40

40

 $    1,000,000 

 $   3,500,000 

0

 $          50,000 

20

80

60

 $    1,000,000 

 $   4,500,000 

0

 $          10,000 

50

200

250

 $       500,000 

 $   5,000,000 

0

Campaign Total 

 

 

 

 $    5,000,000