Guest coachacola Posted November 16, 2008 Report Posted November 16, 2008 Lamar University has reached the financial halfway point in a fund-raising campaign that is unprecedented by university standards and ambitious compared to campaigns similar-sized Texas colleges have launched in recent years. Although the university set a target year of 2013 to reach its $100 million goal as part of the "Investing in the Future" campaign, more than $50 million already has been raised, university officials said. Lamar University President James M. Simmons publicly announced the campaign just more than six months ago, although a quiet campaign has been under way for three years. The campaign marks uncharted fund-raising territory for Lamar, which averaged $3.1 million in donations annually between 1999 and 2005, said Camille Mouton, Lamar University's vice president for university advancement. http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/_100m_lamar_campaign_reaches_halfway_point_11-14-2008.html
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