The Bucknell Advantage
Every student learns across disciplines
Three Colleges, One Experience
The Ivies have prestige. Liberal arts colleges have breadth. Technical schools have depth. Bucknell has all three. By 2032, all students will integrate knowledge across our three colleges through rigorous academics, emerging technologies and real-world experiences.
Students come to us already ambitious and exceptional, and they leave as high-performing leaders who create change across sectors. Be the spark that helps them connect ideas and disciplines.
Campaign Progress
Thanks to the generosity of Bucknell supporters like you, Be the ’ray is on its way to hitting our $1 billion goal.
Overview
Total Donations Raised
$518,308,693
52% of $1 Billion Donation Goal Raised
Areas of Investment
Undergraduate Research
The next great discovery could start with a Bucknell student. With faculty mentorship, hands-on research and the resources to pursue bold questions, students transform curiosity into knowledge, challenge convention and shape the future of their fields.
Integrated Academic Resource Center
At Bucknell, learning is a team sport, where students build confidence, strengthen skills, connect with mentors and peers and develop the independence to thrive.
Global Education
The best education in the world includes the world, equipping every Bucknellian — regardless of background or circumstance — with the global perspective, cultural fluency and real-world experience to lead.
Community-based Learning
Some lessons don’t fit inside a classroom. Our community is where learning becomes leadership and empathy becomes impact.
Freeman College of Management: Faculty Expansion
Behind every great leader is a professor who saw it first. Freeman faculty turn ambition into impact through mentorship and transformative learning.
Freeman College of Management: Holmes Hall Expansion
Expanding Holmes Hall allows us to meet extraordinary student demand while creating the space, faculty capacity and experiential opportunities to bring Freeman’s vision to life.
The Bucknell Initiative for Dialogue & Democracy
The Bucknell Initiative for Dialogue & Democracy will give students the skills to listen, think critically, navigate disagreement and lead with civic responsibility.
The Dominguez Center for Data Science
Every Bucknell student learns to harness data across disciplines, connecting ideas, solving real-world challenges and leading with the judgment technology alone cannot provide.
The Perricelli-Gegnas Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
The future belongs to those who build it — to bold thinkers who turn interdisciplinary ideas into real-world impact through innovation, entrepreneurship, collaboration and transformative opportunities.
The Humanities Center
The tools will change. The questions endure. Success belongs to those who think critically, challenge assumptions and shape a changing world with purpose, empathy and humanity.
The Ecology Center
The next generation of environmental leaders won’t learn about the world’s challenges from a textbook. They’ll learn from the river, through hands-on experience and action.
Impact Stories
Here, students contribute to their fields, not just study them. Faculty don’t leave their research to the labs, field and studio; they bring it to the classroom. See how Bucknellians are shaping the future through immersive academics, from study abroad to student entrepreneurship.
The Bucknell Advantage
Building a Sustainable Future: Bill ’70 and Madeline Morrow
A gift from Bill ’70 and Madeline Morrow created the Morrow Farm as a space to enhance student learning and build a sustainable future for the Bucknell community — and beyond.
11.06.26
Supporting Strong Faculty and Mentors: Janet Duyckinck Smith ’67
With the support of Janet Duyckinck Smith ’67, an endowed chair guarantees that generations of Bucknell students will benefit from strong faculty mentorship.
11.06.26
The Bucknell Advantage
Leading the Way in Entrepreneurship Education: Scott ’94, P’25, P’31 and Sue Gegnas Perricelli ’94 P’25, P’31
A founding gift from Scott ’94 P’25, P’31 and Sue Gegnas Perricelli ’94 P’25, P’31 places Bucknell at the vanguard of entrepreneurship education.
11.06.26
Our Other Commitments
This is one of five commitments in our historic campaign. Explore the other ways we’re shaping the future of Bucknell University.
The Foundation
Every student belongs, grows, and leads.
The Arena
Every student athlete competes and wins beyond the field.
The Launch
Every graduate lands with purpose.
The Promise
Every student who belongs here, gets here and stays.
Build an even brighter future for Bucknell
Because of your generosity, we are opening more doors, creating more opportunities and changing more lives.