We achieved our Annual Fund target of $2.1 million!
Dear Friends, We achieved our Annual Fund target of $2.1 million! For this we thank you so much. For the second consecutive year, more than 1,350 people contributed to the Annual Fund. Every gift, no matter how large or small, is vital. We are so fortunate to have such a large family of generous supporters all over the country and around the world. We thought you might appreciate seeing some of the University's achievements this past year — in enrollment, academics and research, sustainability and health, campus renovations, and global outreach. These achievements are made possible in large measure by your support for the Annual Fund. As these achievements indicate, Maharishi University of Management is an amazingly dynamic international academic community, with a vibrant atmosphere of creativity, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. Equal to any of these achievements are the extraordinary experiences of higher states of consciousness that continue to come out of our two Golden Domes day after day after day, coupled with our community's extraordinary focus on the Total Knowledge that Maharishi brought out — and all within the peaceful, blissful, harmonious atmosphere of our campus that visitors routinely comment on. With all our best wishes, Dr. Bevan Morris President Dr. John Hagelin Trustee | Director, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy | Raja of Invincible America Dr. Jeffrey Abramson Chair, Board of Trustees Board of Trustees | Faculty | Administration of Maharishi University of Management SUMMARY OF UNIVERSITY ACHIEVEMENTS 2014-2015 ENROLLMENT We set an all-time enrollment record. We currently have 1,535 students — more than ever before. (90% of our undergraduate students receive scholarship support from the University, and the Annual Fund helps support these students.) We had our largest graduating class ever — 391 students. Our Computer Science professionals program enrolled 315 students this year — another record. ACADEMICS AND RESEARCH Our new Integrative Medicine Dual Degree MD/MS program — the first of its kind — launches in August, in collaboration with a medical school in Curacao. Teams of MBA Accounting students, competing against more than 100 other graduate-level teams in a global business simulation, finished #1, #3, #5, #9, and #15 in the world — the third time in four years an MUM team has placed #1. Our faculty speak and publish extensively across the country and throughout the world. They are leading the way on so many important, emerging trends in mind-body medicine . . . TM for veterans with PTSD . . . the TM program's profound impact in the schools . . . in helping underserved children, refugees in war-torn areas, and more. SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH We again received national recognition for sustainability — listed among “Sierra Club Cool Schools” . . . in The Princeton Review's Guide to 332 Green Colleges . . . and as #4 in EnvironmentalScience.org's first annual "Top Environmental Science Schools" rankings out of 50 top colleges. We received generous grants from the Wege Foundation and the Abramson family for a large solar array to power the Maharishi Patanjali Golden Dome. MUM was officially recognized as a Blue Zones worksite, and Fairfield was certified as a Blue Zones community. See bluezones.com http://bluezones.com/. RENOVATION We're doing critical renovations of classrooms, offices, and residence halls. OUTREACH The World Association for Vedic Studies held its annual international conference on our campus, with more than 100 participants, including 75 from around the US, Canada, and India, and many presentations from our faculty. Our faculty are ambassadors of the most profound knowledge and have been giving keynote presentations all over the world — at the historicInternational Conference to Re-establish Ideal Vedic India, held last February in Delhi . . . at the International AyurVeda Congress, held in April in the Netherlands . . . and most recently at International Yoga Dayin New Delhi.
