NEW ORLEANS – Loyola University has launched a $100 million campaign called Faith in the Future: The Campaign for Loyola University New Orleans. It supports projects and programs that fulfill Loyola's commitment to provide students with an outstanding college experience that prepares them for meaningful lives and careers.
An integral component of the campaign is the School of Mass Communication’s proposed Multimedia Center, which will revolutionize communications education at Loyola. The new center will serve as a communications hub for the entire university and have the ability to link the school’s experts directly with local and national television and radio networks, giving Loyola national and international visibility.
It will also house technology for producing journalism for multiple platforms, and include a state-of-the-art focus group room for student campaign teams.
For more than 75 years the award-winning School of Mass Communication at Loyola University New Orleans has educated students in the Jesuit tradition. Their students have applied the knowledge and skills they gained at Loyola to make their mark in the industry – by becoming editors for newspapers like the Minneapolis Star Tribune, helping to found world renowned news organizations like CNN, serving as vice-president of Warner Brothers and owners of advertising and public relations firms across the country. Students not only flourish, but become leaders in their field.
The new multimedia center and broadcast studio will provide a platform to conduct sophisticated newsgathering and strategic communications and become a laboratory for the media’s future.
It will also serve as an emergency operations center, a training center and a social media research facility.
The fundraising goal for the Multimedia Center is $2.5 million in philanthropic investments that will revolutionize communications education at Loyola and provide an important resource for the Greater New Orleans region. The funding priorities include:
Technology enhancements – $1.2 million
Control room equipment
Graphic computers and software
Audio/visual systems
Construction costs – $1.3 million
Student stations
Work stations
Tech laboratories
Faith in the Future: The Campaign for Loyola University New Orleans is a comprehensive fundraising campaign that will raise $100,000,000 in philanthropic dollars in support of a wide range of projects and programs.
Loyola reps say this groundbreaking initiative is about a fundraising campaign, a commitment to the Catholic Jesuit intellectual tradition, and affirming, sustaining, and celebrating their Faith in the Future.
They say the Faith in the Future campaign will enhance academic programs, enrich campus life, ensure financial aid for deserving students, transform their physical campus and strengthen their Jesuit identity.
