At Union College, it's $100 million down, $100 million to go.
The school's $200 million “You Are Union” fundraising campaign has passed the halfway point, said Tom Gutenberger, Union's vice president of college relations.
The campaign, announced in October 2004, was scheduled to wrap up in June 2009. “They'll probably want us to expand it,” Gutenberger said, now that it's doing so well. The total currently stands at $103 million.
Assuming the college reaches its goal, most of the money, $135 million, is earmarked for the school's endowment.
John Wold, a 1938 alumnus and former congressman, gave $20 million to the campaign in 2002, Union's largest gift ever.
“At this point, we're in very, very good shape,” Gutenberger said.