Campus Revitalization

Campaign Goal: Raise $20 Million for Campus Improvements

Rebuilding and enhancing our 135-year-old campus is a major element of the Cornerstone Campaign. We plan to raise $20 million in private philanthropy to update academic buildings and classrooms so that we can deliver a technologically advanced academic experience, especially in the arts and sciences.

Trinity’s Long Walk buildings, breathtaking Chapel, arch, and Quadrangle, library and admissions buildings must be physically strengthened and must also be made capable of delivering a state-of-the-art academic experience.  

Rena Fraden

Professor Rena Fraden is the dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs, and the G. Keith Funston Professor of English and American Studies. She graduated from Yale University and also received her Ph.D. in English from Yale. “... the Long Walk is a museum in which our students live and students and faculty learn, and so while it must be faithful to the past, it absolutely needs to accommodate the present and anticipate the future. Thus, we are building spaces that will connect our students to each other in common areas and connect all of us to the world through the latest technological innovations. It is with great care that we have worked to unite the great historic beauty of the 19th century with the comforts and necessities of the 21st, creating a living museum at Trinity College.” ~Rena Fraden

Enhance the Campus by Revisualizing Open Space

A dramatic redesign of Mather Quadrangle begins spring 2012, creating a more inviting, aesthetically pleasing, and unified space--more in keeping with the rest of Trinity's beautiful campus.

A New Music Rehearsal & Performance Center

The Cornerstone Campaign seeks to raise $5 million for a new Music Rehearsal & Performance Center that will allow Trinity to directly compete with peer schools' music programs.

Proposed Neurosciences Wing

The Cornerstone Campaign seeks to raise $3.5 million for a new, state-of-the-art neurosciences suite of labs and offices.

Long Walk, Classrooms, and Technology

The Cornerstone Campaign seeks to raise at least $7.5 million to help subsidize the $32.9-million Long Walk restoration, a yearlong effort that was completed in the fall of 2008.

The “new” Long Walk buildings feature renovated office and residence hall spaces in Seabury and Jarvis, with up-to-date lighting, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and furnishings. The Long Walk has retained its historic 19th-century beauty, while meeting the needs of the 21st century. Classroom improvements include the addition of six additional “smart classrooms,” also called digital, multimedia, or new media classrooms, at a combined cost of $2.5 million.