Reach Beyond - The Campaign for Onondaga Community College - Impacts of Your Gifts

Poised for Success

From newly built residence halls, to three national championships, to record enrollment, to award winning academic programs and faculty, Onondaga Community College is poised to advance its central role in providing community-based higher education for all.

Bold Vision

From this position of strength, Onondaga has a bold vision for maximizing the College's resources, improving the quality of life and learning for students, and more effectively responding to the educational needs of the community.

Reach Beyond

To transform this vision into reality, the College is embarking on the largest fund-raising effort in its history. The Campaign for Onondaga Community College, a $6 million campaign, supports four major initiatives that will significantly bolster state and county funding by concentrating on academic achievement, access, innovation, and creativity.

 

Why Should You Give?

Now the second-largest undergraduate institution in Central New York, Onondaga enrolls as many as 60% of college-bound high school seniors in some local school districts. Onondaga offers nearly 50 different degree and certificate programs, customized training for business and industry, and a full range of personal enrichment courses to more than 25,000 students each year.

Taxpayer support provides less than 50% of the College's revenue each year. Additional resources are necessary for Onondaga to continue this service to the community and carry out its mission of contributing to a high quality of life, a well-educated citizenry, and a vital regional economy:

  • Onondaga is an integral part of the community - we are of, by, and for the residents of this region
  • Onondaga builds the local workforce - the students we train come from and typically remain in Central New York
  • Onondaga is a quality alternative to high-cost undergraduate education
  • Support for Onondaga ensures outreach to under-served populations and expanded access to postsecondary education
  • Onondaga Community College expands the circle of economical and personal opportunity through
    • Job training
    • Enhanced learning potential
    • Convenient and affordable programs
    • Lifelong learning
  • Onondaga keeps social capital in the local community
  • Onondaga is the one of the region's most promising and agile social, education, and cultural assets
    • Stimulating the effective use of emerging technologies
    • Adapting to changes in the structure of workforce needs,
    • Building audiences for the arts and humanities
    • Addressing diversity and celebrating our ethnic and racial differences

A life changed…

I started this journey long ago and at times thought it wasn't worth the sacrifice. The means to obtain an education became challenging, a burden that was eased by the generosity of donors who value education. - Louis Velez- '05, Humanities