Up against its deadline, Bennett College gets a $1 million lifeline from High Point University

[TexasTowelie]

HIGH POINT — It looks like Bennett College will reach its $5 million goal.

High Point University announced Friday it is standing with Bennett with a gift of $1 million. This is the biggest donation Bennett has received since it began its aggressive fundraising effort two months ago in an effort to hold onto its accreditation.

The HPU gift raises Bennett’s fundraising total to $4.8 million. Bennett officials said this amount doesn’t include a flood of contributions received late this week as well as other significant gifts that the college hasn’t yet made public.

Bennett President Phyllis Worthy Dawkins said after Friday’s announcement that she’s sure the college will hit its fundraising target.

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[littlemissmartypants]

1. This is really good news.

Bennett is one of two remaining HBCU Womens Colleges left. This makes me really happy for women and for North Carolina.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I remember that there were some doubts as to whether they could overcome the

financial difficulties when we discussed Bennett awhile ago. Hopefully, they will get their accreditation renewed and it's great that they were able to get the alumni and other local sources to muster the resources. What will be key to their future is to create a program to build their endowment for the future.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. I couldn't agree more, TT. There needs to be a better plan

To mitigate this happening again. I'm curious to see what the final gift tally will be.