“I’m IN” Capital Campaign Overview
South Dakota needs technical college graduates now more than ever before. For every graduate, there are multiple career openings in South Dakota – and employers are curtailing production, turning down contracts, and slowing economic growth due to the lack of skilled workforce. Lake Area Tech needs to produce more graduates, but we simply do not have the space. We need your help getting our story out and helping the campaign become a reality.
Today, Lake Area Tech has the student population projected for 2043 in facilities built to hold far fewer students. Yet, we still cannot meet industry needs. Lake Area Tech must expand its capacity, but must do it without increasing the burden of that expansion on our students. That was the genesis of the “I’m IN” Capital Campaign. We are asking for partners in this major gifts campaign. We’re in. Are you?
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“I’m IN” Capital Campaign Video Transcript
The capital campaign for Lake Area Technical College is a $40 million campaign and it builds seven buildings. But these are facilities that are not only sorely needed, but these are state-of-the-art facilities. Also, it provides an environment for students to learn. It provides an environment that students want to come to by investing in Lake Area Tech. And in those facilities, not only do you invest in the college, but you also invest in South Dakota’s youth but also South Dakota’s economic future. If you’re an employer, you’re gonna get great graduates and you’re gonna be able to grow your, your business and grow the economy. So our students are given to the community and this community gives right back and, and it’s a, it’s a relationship.
That just is so important to Lake Area Tech, but it’s one that we’re now asking the community now to step forward and help us to do this capital campaign, to raise these dollars. We’re well on our way. We’ve had exceptional industry support. In fact, this is totally industry support and state support.
This $40 million campaign is one of the commitment that we made early on is that we would add no additional burden to the students. But we need buy-in from the community. We want to grow. We want Watertown to grow. We want South Dakota to thrive. And we want our young people to stay here.
