WALLA WALLA — Whitman College is in the midst of its largest fundraising campaign in its 164-year history, which aims to raise $200 million so Whitman can become a college that meets the full financial needs of all its students.

The campaign, “Upward Together: The Campaign for Whitman College,” already has raised $138 million through more than 13,500 donors, according to a news release issued Oct. 13. The campaign was announced publicly Oct. 12, with campaign chair Nancy Serrurier and vice chair Aaron Perrine outlining the campaign’s priorities.

“Whitman has always been known as a place of community, care and collective action,” said Serrurier, who also is the parent of a 2011 Whitman College graduate. “Successfully completing this ambitious campaign will meaningfully transform how Whitman students live and learn and prepare for lives of success and purpose.“

Some of the campaign’s goals include access and affordability, academic excellence and distinction, a vibrant campus community, advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, strong graduate launches for all students and growing the Whitman Fund.

“The world is changing extraordinarily fast — societally, technologically, economically,” President Sarah Bolton said. “We have been thinking together about the ways we need to evolve and invest, so that students now and in generations to come can expand their horizons and prepare for their futures at Whitman.”

Upward Together is Whitman College’s second major campaign in the past 40 years and the first to kick off on campus in Walla Walla.

The donations received so far include more than $50 million in gifts for scholarships and aid, $15 million for building a junior-senior residential village, $10 million from Kathie and Walt Weingart for need-based financial aid, $5 million from Nancy and Greg Serrurier for the Career and Community Engagement Center and almost $18 million in gifts and pledges for faculty support, academic programs and student-faculty research.

“With this campaign, we create our legacy,” Serrurier said. “Now we, together, will write the story of the next volume of Whitman’s history. We stand with those college leaders who have come before us, and we take another ambitious step forward, with new leaders, in service of a new generation of students.“

To donate or learn more about the campaign, visit whitman.edu/upwardtogether.