“Because of the support of almost 21,000 donors giving more than 81 million dollars to the Imagine Unlimited Campaign—we have shattered that goal! We are here because people helped us along the way. We made a promise that if we had the means to help others in the future, we would. Together we will provide opportunities for IUP students and allow them to Imagine Unlimited Possibilities so they may go on to change the world.”
We've broken ground on the new home of the John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Your participation will ensure our momentum grows stronger. Learn more
Access to deep and innovative academic experiences prepare future leaders to be ready for what they’ll face immediately after graduation and decades beyond. Knowledge and know how that students hone as part of their major coursework and the softs skills they pick up in liberal education classes—public speaking, critical thinking, cultural context, and effective writing and communication—ensure today’s students are ready for tomorrow’s challenges.
In addition to a new science complex, named for benefactors John Kopchick ’72, M’75 and Char Labay Kopchick ‘73 and that will support cross-disciplinary teaching, learning, and research in the rapidly changing science fields, campaign priorities include the following:
Cook Honors College: Your support will strengthen and sustain a community of scholars and future leaders. Join alumni and friends in support of the Cook Honors College Scholarship or Achievement Fund to raise $200,000 in honor of 20 years of CHC graduates.
When students succeed, they find meaning and purpose in their college experience through relevant connections, and they forge ahead to degree completion with definite goals for life after graduation.
IUP’s newest innovation, the University College, is providing students who are unsure of what major course of study to pursue, the option to enter as exploring students. They are guided by faculty members as they find the programs that match their passions and talents without losing time in their four-year journey. Other campaign priorities include the following:
“Imagination helped us get to where we are. But we can't rest now. There are more imaginations that need our guidance."
–Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna,
Vice President University Advancement
IUP’s students, faculty and staff members come from rural regions, urban centers, and suburban communities. They differ in race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background. All are welcome, and all learn from each other. Around 20 percent of IUP’s student body comprises students from underrepresented groups. IUP boasts the largest percentage of international students in the entire State System of Higher Education. What those two statistics bring to the region and to all the university’s students is the benefit of being exposed to different cultures that will create the best-prepared leaders of the future.
IUP’s diverse community provides students with the opportunity to develop an appreciation for what commonalities and differences between people might mean in their workplaces and communities. Campaign priorities to enhance diversity and inclusion efforts at IUP include the following:
Tim and Deb Cejka
John and Char Kopchick
Bill and Audrey Madia
Terry Serafini
Tracy Settle
Bill and Judy Scheeren
In addition to thousands of alumni and friends who have supported IUP through the Imagine Unlimited Campaign, more than a hundred people have signified their confidence in IUP by serving as volunteers.
Bonnie Harbison Anderson ’80
Richard Caruso ’83
Tim Cejka ’73
Debra Phillips Cejka ’73
Michael Driscoll
Terry Dunlap ’81
Char Labay Kopchick ’73
John Kopchick ’72, M’75
Audrey Delaquil Madia ’70
William Madia ’69, M’71
Timothy Moerland
Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna
Judith Scheeren
William Scheeren ’68
Tracy Settle ’80
Dennis Stover ’76
Regina Dressel Stover ’75
Robert Basehore Jr. ’71
Bernard Bruns ’68
Francis Condino
Owen Dougherty Jr. ’88
Patrick Imbrogno ’78
Larry Kubala ’80
Walter Lewis Jr. ’70
Barry Lippencott ’67
Sue McMurdy ’78
Lou Scerbo ’83
James Taylor ’86
Jeffrey Turnage ’95, M’96
Jackie Wiley ’69, M’77
Jim Wiley
Garry Wurm ’87
Lorna Milkovich Abernathy ’83
Steven Agnoli ’86
Nadav Baum ’86
Phillip Carrai ’83
Allen Childs ’81
Kevin Colosimo ’94
Patricia Davoren Darnley ’81
Elizabeth Gregg
Paul Miller ’74
Bryan Putt ’86
William Shipley ’75
Daniel Simoni ’94
William Wagner ’75
Patrick Wallace ’85
Barbara Aiello ’68
Kevin Bailey ’86, M’90
Megan Baker ’96
Bonnie Curry Brose ’67
Donna McCrea Griffith ’74, M’77
Joseph Kovaleski
Mary Leisher Leipheimer ’66
Suzanne Lamm Lewis ’71
Jane Ramsey Logan ’63
Patti Shannahan Mazanek ’74, M’86
Pat Mazanek ’73, M’82
Judith Scheeren
William Scheeren ’68
Susan Giles Stonebraker ’68
Gretchen Barbor M’85
Michael Bodolosky ’72, M’78
John Conrad ’58
William Double
Ian Gallanar ’87
Joshua Hillard ’01
Charles Olson ’74, M’76
G. Daniel Prushnok ’76
Ruth Riesenman ’64
John Ritter
Joyce Sharman
Elaine Tselepis Sheetz ’71
Kay Smith
Myron Tomb Jr. ’69
William Woodcock
Celeste Andreassi-Hutchens ’99, M’07
Linda Deabenderfer
James Dill ’77
Robert McCaughan
Randall McCauley
Edward Nardi D’96
Bruno Pino
Tracy Settle ’80
Jeffrey Shockey ’80
Michael Staub ’80
Mary Swinker
Mary Williams ’76
Harold Wingard
Sandra Koeppl Barsotti ’87
Charles Cashdollar ’65
George Chressanthis ’77
Blane Dessy ’73
Mileah Kromer ’03
Karl McDermott ’76
John McNulty ’75
Jennifer Swartz Quinlan ’07
Mark Stewart ’91
Robert Hurley ’83
Bonnie Harbison Anderson ’80
Tim Cejka ’73
John Gilly ’79
Cindy Jaynes ’79, M’82
Esther Massung Kepplinger
John Kopchick ’72, M’75
William Madia ’69, M’71
Daniel Markey ’77
Sue McMurdy ’78
Charles Neral ’80
Dianne Mittura Rothstein ’75
Scott Rudy III ’84
William Rusnack ’66
Elizabeth Latorre Travis ’65
Laura Wholey ’78
Brian Cobaugh ’92
Aaron Douthit ’15
Ellen Kelsesky Hayes ’82
Timothy Hayes ’82
Jeffrey Hileman ’80
James Jozefowicz
Stephanie Jozefowicz
Barbara Bentrim Kubala ’68, M’73
Joshua Liss ’92
Dorothy Sullivan Love ’81
Aaron Ludwig ’07
Jeremy B Risinger ’16
Patricia Browwn Simkins ’55
Ronald Simkins ’58
Kenneth Sosnick ’03
Lewis Brindle ’75
Richard Clark ’80
Susan Cosper ’92
William Dannecker ’61
Kathleen Kundar ’68
Almar Latour ’94
James Leda ’95
Jeffrey Moran ’89
Nils Paellmann M’87
Stephanie Perry ’88
Casey Ryan ’12
Andrew Sandberg ’06
Mary Turnbach ’83
Jarret Wasko ’14
Mauro Wolfe ’90
Barbara A Aiello ’68
Ashley J Gurbal ’06
Larry J Hevner ’70
Patrick M Mullen ’79
Tracy L Settle ’80
Larry F Sobotka ’63
Joanne B Steiner
Thomas E Wallace ’80
Marlene D Woodson-Howard ’58
Barbara A Zdravecky ’74
Donald Baronitis ’76
Tim Cejka ’73 and Debra Phillips Cejka ’73
Dale Hosack ’81
Charles Keller ’74
Robert Kervin ’02
Nancy Sheridan Kralik ’74
Gregory Schockling ’81
Christa Ziegler Spears ’01
Jeffrey Swift ’75
Jill Trainor Swift ’75
Elizabeth Latorre Travis ’65
Robin A. Gorman
Frank Kinter Jr.
Kim Lyttle ’72, M’74
Joseph Marcoline ’70, D’90
Donna Dickie Putt ’69
Wallace Putt ’69
Ellen Sylves Ruddock ’66
Michael Supinka
William Cooper
Beverly Fairman ’77
Joyce Ritenour Fairman ’76 M’84
J. Thomas Frantz ’73 D’00
David Osikowicz Jr.
Frank Roberts
Samuel Smith