At McDaniel College, there are no limits to how high we can reach or how expansive our future can be when we work together as a united community.
That’s why we are pleased to announce Reaching New Heights: The Campaign for McDaniel College, an ambitious, comprehensive fundraising campaign that will help us continue to change lives as we have since our founding as Western Maryland College in 1867.
Together, we will fulfill our vision of excellence within a culture of genuine care — for our students, for our employees, for our alumni, and for our communities both domestically and abroad.
As we embark on the public phase of the Reaching New Heights campaign, we are eager to build on the momentum of a historic year in the college’s philanthropic efforts.
From June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025, the McDaniel College community came together to donate more than $23 million, the largest amount of money raised in a single year in the college’s history.
Because of these commitments made by our donors, the college has already raised more than $40 million of the $50 million goal with three years remaining in the campaign.
But the Reaching New Heights campaign is about more than money. It’s about community and connections. Every member of the McDaniel College community can make a difference regardless of financial capacity as we strive to forge 2,500 new community connections and create 500 new career connections by May 31, 2028.
Now more than ever, community is at the forefront of McDaniel’s mission, and we know that we can only reach new heights together.
WILL YOU JOIN US?
THANK YOU TO OUR CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES!
The success of Reaching New Heights is not possible without the dedicated work of more than 50 volunteers in the college community who have already been working behind the scenes to help build momentum. Each of these volunteers has worked under the leadership of our campaign co-chairs, Deborah Dale Seidel ’84 and Ethan Seidel, to lead our community’s climb to new heights.
We are grateful to those who have stepped up to lead these committees, including:
SAM HOPKINS ’80, P’20 Academic and Campus Life Campaign Committee Chair
SPLINTER YINGLING ’68, P’90, P’92 Athletics Campaign Committee Chair
CHARLIE MOORE ’71 Board Giving Committee Chair
MARTY HILL P’93 Leadership Gift Committee Chair
RALPH ’84 AND CHAR FRITH ’84 National Alumni Committee Co-Chairs
CHRIS ’88 AND SUSAN NEWMAN ’89, P’24 Parent and Family Committee Co-Chairs
To view the full list of campaign volunteers, go to campaign.mcdaniel.edu.
To hear more from the campaign co-chairs, read the “Keep Climbing” column.