The Mike Stratton Scholarship, launched with an initial gift of $200,000, offers renewable awards covering up to half the cost of in-state tuition and fees for up to four years.
Although Susan Metzger grew up in a piano-playing family, it was four decades before her latent musical aspirations found expression and eventually led her to Colorado State University. To help students realize their dreams, she recently made a $2 million planned gift to create two scholarships for undergraduate or graduate students studying viola or piano.
This year’s Colorado State University Founders Day Medal is being awarded posthumously to Joe Blake, who was the first chancellor of the CSU System, a former member of the Board of Governors and a prominent donor to the College of Liberal Arts.
Now in its eighth year, CSU’s Day of Giving is an opportunity for the CSU community to join together and support programs, causes and student support initiatives that speak to their passions.