- By the Numbers
- Building a Thriving Future with Your Support
- Collaborating to Serve Our Community
- Arts Achievements
- You Help Us Bring Home the Gold
- Maximizing Your Impact
By the Numbers
Building a Thriving Future with Your Support
With the approval of our Board of Trustees, Brenau has begun the new student-centric Campus Master Plan that will change campuses over the next decade or more to include more student space, renovate East Campus, and expand space for our award-winning Ernest Ledford Grindle Department of Athletics.
To address critical healthcare gaps, the Campus Master Plan includes a 20% expansion of the Mary Inez Grindle School of Nursing, including a state-of-the-art clinical simulation and skills training lab to prepare students for clinical rotations and the workforce.
You’re helping to build the pipeline for the next generation of healthcare heroes!
Alumni banded together to improve student spaces again this year, with improvements to West Hall sponsored by the Alumni Association Board Fund.
The newly named Jacobs College of Business and Media recognizes the family’s enduring philanthropic support of the institution, their legacy of community service, and their role as pioneers who have shaped the media landscape for 77 years. The college also recently established an accelerated MBA program, and Jacobs College of Business and Media students rank in the 95th percentile on the Peregrine degree program outcome test among business schools nationwide.
Collaborating to Serve Our Community
The Carole Ann Daniel College of Education is working to solve the shortage of teachers through the TigerTEACH accelerated training pipeline for teachers and paraprofessionals already working in the classroom. The Doctor of Education program has more than 270 students enrolled, and Brenau has student-teaching agreements with 107 school systems and private schools across Georgia.
In the Ivester College of Health Sciences, our PT Pro Bono Clinic doubled its patient services this year, while the Brenau Center for Productive Living and the Brenau Center for Counseling and Psychological Services continue to offer low to no-cost healthcare options for our community, while simultaneously providing students with real-time educational experiences to prepare them to be practitioners who better the lives of our community members.
Brenau has also established new articulation agreements with Lanier Technical College and Athens Technical College to ensure ease of transition into our healthcare programs to ensure that we’re meeting needs for more healthcare workers across Georgia and beyond.
Your support of Brenau and programs like these is instrumental to student success and provides much-needed resources to our underserved community.
Arts Achievements
Our College of Fine Arts and Humanities students thrive on the national stage, including at National competitions for international delegation simulations, the on-campus Brenau Invitational Mediation Tournament, now in it’s 23rd year, and in hosting the American College Dance Association Southeastern Conference. Brenau students are consistently recognized or awarded at these events.
Your generosity unlocks student potential, allowing Brenau’s creative minds to succeed on the national stage.
You Help Us Bring Home the Gold
The Brenau competitive cheerleading team reaffirmed its claim as one of the nation’s elite cheerleading squads by securing its third consecutive national championship at the 2026 National Cheerleading Association NAIA All-Girl Championship.
Brenau Athletics coaches and athletes were recognized in multiple ways this year, as well. Brenau swimming Head Coach Mandi Bell was named AAC Coach of the Year after the Golden Tigers claimed second place at the conference championship. Golden Tiger Sophie Bell was recognized by the AAC as the Most Outstanding Swimmer after three first-place finishes at the conference championships. Sophomore Madison Kitson was named Most Outstanding Athlete of the AAC Indoor Track and Field Championships, and junior Caylie Long was also recognized by the AAC as Women’s Basketball Newcomer of the Year and named to the All-Conference First Team and All-Defensive Team.
Maximizing Your Impact
Support the Annual Fund
The average annual fund gift of $375 is equivalent to approximately $7,500 in endowment value.*
*Your gift to the Annual Fund combines with all contributions in our endowment. Each year, up to 5% of the six-year rolling average of endowment investment funds are utilized, creating a larger impact.
Closing the Gap
Your donations to the annual scholarship fund help students fund their educational pursuits. The Brenau Promise further ensures that an eligible student’s full tuition and Institutional & Instructional (I&I) development fee are covered. A student who qualifies for and maintains the Brenau Promise will pay $0 out of pocket for their tuition and I&I development fee over the course of their undergraduate education at Brenau.
Power in Numbers
Members of the FIRE program, an alumni consistent giving initiative supporting Brenau, give a sustaining gift of $5/month or more (or the equivalent of more than $60 annually) each year, proving the power of a collective positive impact for Brenau students.
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Planned Giving to maximize impact
Bequests or other estate gifts can make a lasting impact at Brenau and can sometimes carry tax benefits for you. Learn more with our Planned Giving resources.