波莫纳学院启动 5.3 亿美元“Originals”募资计划，扩助学金并为全球交流中心奠基
10 月 10 日，位于加州克莱蒙特的波莫纳学院（Pomona College）正式公开启动 5.3 亿美元综合募资计划 "Originals Campaign"，并在启动仪式上为新建的全球交流中心（Center for Global Engagement）举行奠基。这是该校历史上规模最大的筹款行动，目前已筹得目标金额的 47%，计划在未来五年内完成。
根据学院官方新闻稿，募资将重点投向四个方向：扩大助学金覆盖范围（包括中等收入家庭学生）、引进师资并投入新兴学术领域、强化学生健康与福祉项目，以及深化校友与在校生的跨代联结。
校长 G·加布里埃尔·斯塔尔（G. Gabrielle Starr）在启动仪式上表示，这项计划关乎确保波莫纳"无论学生的经济背景如何，都能让杰出的学生茁壮成长"，让教师继续重新定义博雅教育的可能，让新的想法变成有意义的改变。
全球交流中心的奠基标志着学院国际化战略进入硬件落地阶段。作为克莱蒙特五校联盟（The Claremont Colleges）成员，波莫纳学院以本科博雅教育著称，是美国顶尖的文理学院之一，此次募资规模在文理学院中亦属罕见。
南加华人家庭历来重视教育，克莱蒙特地区也是不少华人家庭关注的学区与大学城。这所"小而精"名校的大手笔投入，或将进一步推高其申请热度。
Pomona College Launches $530M 'Originals' Campaign, Breaks Ground on Center for Global Engagement
On October 10, Pomona College in Claremont, California publicly launched its $530 million comprehensive fundraising effort, the 'Originals Campaign,' and broke ground on a new Center for Global Engagement at the launch ceremony. The most ambitious fundraising effort in the college's history, the campaign has already raised 47% of its goal and will run over the next five years.
According to the college's official announcement, the campaign will focus on four priorities: expanding financial aid — including for students from middle-income families — investing in faculty and emerging areas of scholarship, strengthening health and wellness programs, and deepening connections across generations of alumni and students.
President G. Gabrielle Starr said at the launch that the campaign is about ensuring Pomona remains a place where remarkable students can thrive regardless of financial circumstances, where faculty continue to redefine what a liberal arts education can be, and where fresh ideas become meaningful change.
The groundbreaking for the Center for Global Engagement marks the college's internationalization strategy moving into bricks and mortar. A member of The Claremont Colleges consortium, Pomona is one of America's top liberal arts colleges, and a campaign of this scale is rare even among elite liberal arts institutions.
For Chinese American families in Southern California who follow education closely — Claremont is a well-known college town — the investment is likely to further raise the profile, and the applicant pool, of this 'small but mighty' school.
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