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“Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces.”
-The 15 Promises of the Rosary
Inaugural Year Founding Members Campaign
Building A Solid Foundation To Fulfill Our Mission
We are excited to announce our founding member capital campaign! We are grateful that twenty students from ten states spanning eighteen cities have already entrusted us to provide them with a faithfully Catholic liberal arts education. Your generous gifts will allow us to continue to expand our offerings to students who display an extraordinary thirst for wisdom and a commitment to growing in their faith.
The founders of Rosary College felt called to establish a respected institution rooted in Catholic liberal arts education that would aid the human family in the search for meaning, knowledge, and truth amidst an era of rapid technological and scientific advancement and “incomparably fertile dialogue with people of every culture” (Ex Corde Ecclesiae 6).
Much of our initial momentum is due to the contributions of volunteers, such as our President, Dr. Michael Shick, who has been fulfilling his role entirely pro bono, and faculty and administrators putting in extra effort — much of it pro bono as well — to ensure South Carolina’s first Catholic college succeeds. Our inaugural semester could never have happened without our amazing volunteers, for which we are very grateful!
We require financial support to continue to meet this call, by covering critical expenses that ensure the delivery of quality and affordable Catholic education and efficient operations.
The College becomes Catholic in reality when its faculty, staff, and students affirm and act on the principles contained in the College’s Mission Statement, and your generous gifts are essential to achieving that purpose.
Giving Levels
- I. Presidential Founding Partner– $48,000 Gift or more (2024-25 academic year)
- II. Founders Circle Member – $12,000 Gift or more (2024-25 academic year)
- III. Founding Parents Advisory Council (PAC) Member – $10,000 Gift or more (2024-25 academic year)
- IV. St. Raphael Trailblazer Member – $1000 Gift or more to the Joseph Pearce Faculty Fund
- V. Founding Family Scholarship Fund Member – $1000 Gift or more
For more details about the value offerings for each level of giving, click here.
If you make even a small gift of $10, $15 or $25 today to any of our areas of need, you will help us succeed in our efforts to provide a premier education in the Catholic tradition!
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My experience of teaching the first two class sessions of my first-ever course for Rosary College has been entirely positive. The students are both engaged and engaging. Their discussions with me during class and in the online discussion forum have been edifying, encouraging, and inspirational. Spending such quality time with students of this caliber fills me with great hope for the future.
Joseph Pearce
Faculty
Presidential Founding Partner
This is your opportunity to secure a solid foundation for the college by contributing your resources to help Catholic families worldwide access the college’s offerings.
With a gift of $48,000, Presidential Founding Partners receive standing invitations to the annual Founders Circle Dinner and all Parental Advisory Council meetings, and have the opportunity for regular one-on-one meetings with the President, Dr. Michael Shick, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
The Founders Circle
Become a member of The Founders’ Circle by supporting one full course or more of our Spring ‘25 Course Offerings.
We plan to offer five classes this spring. The costs associated with offering one course include payment for faculty, operational and administrative costs, and technology infrastructure, for a total of $12,000 per course.
Our faculty is passionate about providing a Catholic liberal arts education for their students. As Dr. Elizabeth L’Arrivee, who is teaching Elements of Writing this fall, said in a recent interview, “We are trying to not only give students the ability to think rationally and understand arguments and logic and demonstration and evidence, but also to prepare their souls to be really, truly convinced by these arguments for faith when they hear them.”
Which classes were most transformative for you in your own educational journey? Pass the torch of knowledge to the next generation by supporting one or more of our Spring Semester courses (as this schedule is not yet finalized, in the event of a course being changed, all funds for that course will automatically rollover to the new course).
Grant me a penetrating mind to understand, a retentive memory, method and ease in learning, the lucidity to comprehend, and abundant grace in expressing myself. -St. Thomas Aquinas
Saint Raphael Trailblazer
Become a St. Raphael Trailblazer by contributing gifts of $1000 or more (including monthly gifts of $100 for ten months) to our Faculty Fund for Joseph Pearce.
As a liberal arts educational institution in the Catholic tradition that aims to provide an authentic, rigorous, and affordable education for our students, we must recruit and retain qualified faculty with expertise in their field.
Joseph Pearce is a world-renowned Catholic scholar whose reputation, breadth of experience, and expertise have blessed the college tremendously. You can read about Josephs’ impressive biography here. We sincerely desire to offer Joseph and, in time, other excellent faculty, full-time, salaried positions at the college.
You can ensure Rosary College students receive the gift of an excellent and transformative college education by contributing to the Joseph Pearce Faculty Fund.
St. Raphael, Patron Saint of Catholic Studies,
pray for us!
Rosary College Founding Family
Join the Rosary College Founding Family by becoming a member of the 2024-25 Founding Parents’ Advisory Council or a Founding Families’ Scholarship Fund Archangel.
Rosary College affirms that “Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents’ welfare” (Humanae Vitae 9).
We promote life and the Magisterium’s doctrines on life and marriage by making service to our communities and Christian families central to our mission, and by offering siblings of full-time Rosary College students a discounted tuition rate. It’s right in our Mission Statement and Billing Policy!
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Become a member of the Founding Parents Advisory Council with a minimum gift of $10,000 and help guide the college in serving our families and communities.
Our Founding Families Scholarship Fund will help students with financial needs attend Rosary College at a more affordable cost. You can become a Founding Families Scholarship Fund Archangel with a minimum gift of $1000, including monthly gifts of $100 for ten months.
Saint Joseph, foster-father of our Savior, guardian of His holy Mother, head of the Holy Family, intercede for us, bless us and defend our home at all times.
Are you ready to become a Founding Member right now? Or perhaps you would like to contribute a gift of any size to the Founding Member Campaign initiative?
Membership at any level in our Founding Members Campaign can be attained by making either a one-time gift, or by setting up multiple payments or recurring, monthly donations (membership will be conferred once the donation threshold for that level is reached).
If you would like to discuss making a major one-time or recurring gift to our Founding Member Campaign, please reach out to:
Dr. Elizabeth L’Arrivee
Faculty; Director of Academic Policy and Compliance
elarrivee@rosary.college
Dr. Michael Shick
President
864.200.2060/ mshick@rosary.college
Making even a small gift of $10, $15 or $20 today to any of our areas of need will help us succeed in our efforts to provide a premier education in the Catholic tradition.
Thank you for being a Rosary College Founding Member!
These key financial investments will enable Rosary College to continue to operate effectively, provide a rich educational experience, and uphold the highest standards of Catholic education.
