Other Special Initiatives

Resource Center for Pastoral Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences
Contact: Marvin Julich, 205-726-4142, mmjulich@samford.edu
In 2002 the Lilly Endowment awarded Samford University a two million dollar grant to establish the Resource Center for Pastoral Excellence. The Center’s mission is to renew the lives of ministers and strengthen their service in the Kingdom of God. The Sabbath Leave program, for example, makes available all of the university’s considerable resources to provide opportunities for clergy to re-focus, renew and re-source their lives for the work of ministry in their churches.

Christian Women's Leadership Center, College of Arts and Sciences
Contact: Marvin Julich, 205-726-4142, mmjulich@samford.edu
The Christian Women’s Leadership Center was established on Samford’s campus in 2000 with an endowed gift from Woman’s Missionary Union. This center’s mission is to provide learning opportunities for women to realize the fullest measure of their potential in all areas of human endeavor. It hosts a variety of cocurricular activities and an interdisciplinary curriculum in Christianity, Women and Leadership Studies. Students in the academic program represent a variety of majors and minors at Samford: religion, psychology, sociology, business, education, family studies, communication studies, journalism and mass communication, English, Spanish, and international relations.

University Ministries
Contact: Marvin Julich, 205-726-4142, mmjulich@samford.edu

Alabama Governor's School

Contact: Randy Pittman, 205-726-4748, rpittman@samford.edu
The Alabama Governor's School is a summer residential enrichment program for academically talented high school seniors. Students take classes, go on field trips, and have fun. The goals of AGS include developing networks of motivated young people to further the progress of the state of Alabama.

Investment Education Center

 $1,000,000
Contact: Doug Wilson, 205-726-4266, dwilson@samford.edu
In the School of Business, to create an endowed investment fund to be managed by a group of students in an experiential investments course. a financial trading laboratory setting for teaching investment and financial management.

Oak Mountain Interpretive Center

 $500,000
Contact: Randy Pittman, 205-726-4748, rpittman@samford.edu
Funding for planning and installation of museum quality environmental educational exhibits for the Samford University run facility at Oak Mountain State Park to serve students and the community through environmental science teaching, learning and research.

Human Simulation Laboratory

 $500,000
Contact: Monty Hogewood, 205-726-2792, jmhogewo@samford.edu
In the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing, provides computer controlled human simulation mannequin to allow nursing students to practice health care techniques in a laboratory setting.

Nutrition Education Laboratory Kitchen

 $300,000
Contact:Jim C. Hamil, 205-726-4201, jchamil@samford.edu
In the Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Professional Studies, to refurbish and modernize the school’s original 1970s laboratory kitchen.

Athletic Weight Training Equipment

 $250,000
Contact: Larry Long, (205) 726-4307, llong@samford.edu
To equip newly constructed space in the Pete Hanna Center.

LEXIS-NEXIS U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection (1789-1969)

 $90,000
Contact: Marvin Julich, 205-726-4142, mmjulich@samford.edu
This web based electronic resource includes congressional reports and documents, executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress, capturing every aspect of American life from early 19th century forward. The included documents total 325,000.

Early English Books Online

 $45,000
Contact: Marvin Julich, 205-726-4142, mmjulich@samford.edu
This investment will provide Samford with a digital collection of 96,000 early texts. The EEB collection will include 125,000 texts and will not be complete until 2014. The full scope of the collection is estimated at 80 percent of the surviving print records in English from 1475-1700.

Education Library Renovation

  
Contact: Jim C. Hamil, 205-726-4201, jchamil@samford.edu

The Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership
Contact: Robert Blakely, 205-726-4108, rblakely@samford.edu

The Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership Excellence Fund Founding Support
One time gift of $10,000 and up
A generous gift of $3 million from Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Mann established the Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics & Leadership.  This initial endowment provided by the Mann family will provide for basic operating expenses for the center and its staff, but additional endowment is needed to create programming, support curriculum development, enable faculty and student research, and support community engagement.  These new funds may be in the form of fellowships, professorships, scholarships, speaker series, or community initiatives.  As a brand new entity, the Mann Center will require leadership donations to make its vision a tangible reality.  Founding Excellence Fund gifts will provide this basic funding needed to develop the center and its programs, and will be used exactly where they are needed most.  While our plans are ambitious, they cannot come to fruition without the materials, programs, fellowships, and human capital necessary to establish the center as a valuable institution and trusted resource.  Simply stated, an Excellence Fund gift is the most effective way of ensuring the success of the center.  Your gift at this time is critical, and will serve as a foundation for all that the Mann Center for Ethics and leadership will accomplish in the coming years. 

The Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership Library
One-time gift of $25,000 and up/ One-time endowed gift of $500,000 to name permanently
The Mann Center Library will serve as a media resource for students, staff, faculty, and the community in the field of ethics and leadership.  Our mission to become the thought leader in public discussion of ethics and leadership, both locally and nationally, will require a comprehensive, world-class collection of books, periodicals, and other media offering the latest in ethical and moral thought.  The Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership Library will serve as the academic backbone of all that is taught and learned at the center, ensuring a level of scholarship worthy of the field, and of Samford University.

Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership Faculty Fellowships
Annual gift of $50,000/ One-time endowed gift of $1.5 million to name permanently
The Mann Center will serve as an incubator for new courses and other initiatives that promote moral development and build competencies in ethical leadership.  These fellowships will make it possible for three to five faculty fellows each year to devote substantial time to this important work. Funds will support fellows’ research and cover the costs incurred by academic departments that release these scholars from a portion of their teaching responsibilities.  These prestigious fellowships, the first of their kind at Samford, will make it possible for the Mann Center to produce a continuous stream of research and course content benefitting the entire Samford campus and the business community.  An annual, competitive application process will select Fellows, at least one of whom will always be a member of the Brock School of Business faculty.