Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Winter 2013 | Page 7

Enhance Music and the
Performing Arts
In addition to advancing programmatic
initiatives, the trustees will seek to address
Wheaton’s most pressing facility need by
initiating the formal planning process
for a new Conservatory building to
serve as a home for music education and
performance in the arts.
The Wheaton College Conservatory
of Music is poised to reach new levels of
artistic excellence and cultural influence.
Yet our facilities lag far behind the caliber
of our program and in some cases are
unacceptable in size and quality for our
current program. What is truly needed
is a major new facility for music and
the performing arts. This building will
enhance the education of our musicians—
not only our Conservatory students, but
also many others who take lessons or
participate in our main ensembles—and

improve the experience of those attending
hundreds of concerts and recitals each year.

Complementary Priorities

other considerations that are part
of the planning:
refresh WheaTon’s mission
sTaTemenT The Board of Trustees

will lead a formal review of the current
mission statement—for example, giving
attention to more clearly emphasizing our
educational mission and its relationship to
the liberal arts.
nurTure viBranT ChrisTian
CommuniTy The president will devise

means of identifying our core values for
life together as a learning, living, working
community of grace; of regularly assessing
progress in honoring those values; and of
working collaboratively to improve the
quality of Christ-centered community
campus-wide.

exTend affordaBiliTy Keep the

Wheaton education affordable for
students from the broadest range of
economic backgrounds, in part through
securing scholarship funding. In addition,
as a principle for sound financial
management, the College will fund
strategic initiatives through tuitionneutral gifts, endowments, reallocations,
and budget reductions.
sTrengThen graduaTe
eduCaTion Improve and expand

facilities for graduate education. Affirm
advanced degree programs as a legitimate
complement to a liberal arts program.
Maintain academic excellence across
programs and foster the spiritual and
material welfare of our students.
*For the complete document, go to http://www.
wheaton.edu/About-Wheaton/Leadership

The CharTer of WheaTon College (1861) sTaTes ThaT The Board of TrusTees is “a Body poliTiC and CorporaTe . . . [ThaT Will] do all
Business ThaT may Be neCessary and appropriaTe To seCure The permanenCy and prosperiTy of The College.” Today, the individuals

charged with this duty are: (row 1, l to r) Jeanette L. Hsieh ’66, Kathryn H. Vaselkiv ’83, Shundrawn Thomas, David K. Gieser ’71 (chairman), Philip G. Ryken
’88, Philip G. Hubbard ’72 (vice chairman), Barbara W. Anderson ’70, Joseph M. Stowell. (row 2) Steven C. Preston, Bishop Emery Lindsay, Harold “Mac”
Airhart ’61, James Plueddemann ’65, M.A. ’71, Jeffrey Meyer ’82 (secretary), Gary W. Griffin ’64, George F. Bennett, Jr. ’63. Not pictured: Darrell L. Bock,
James Goetz ’79, Gregory Waybright ’74, M.A. ’78.

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