Marist College has continued to prosper despite economic difficulties, bringing in hundreds of millions in revenue each year. This money has funded the construction of new academic buildings costing millions, including the Lowell Thomas and Dyson buildings in the 1980s-1990s, and the James A. Cannavino Center and Hancock Center in the late 1990s-2010s. Marist students contribute to the college's wealth through tuition and spending money in the local community. The growing campus developments and steady influx of students suggest Marist is not significantly impacted by financial challenges.

1. Prosperous Marist College By: Beth Boudart

2. Located on the beautiful Hudson River, Marist is a hidden gem within the city of Poughkeepsie. While our country is in a rough economic and political time, Marist continues to get an influx of prospective freshman even with an increasing tuition rate. The college continues to prosper and bring in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of revenue each year with plans to utilize this money for future projects to continue to build the ever growing school.

3. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, Marist saw the construction of 2 very important academic buildings on campus, Lowell Thomas and Dyson, both of these buildings cost multimillions to build.

4. In the early 1990’s, the Marist rotunda and student center were built and this project cost nearly $30 million dollars to complete with state of the art equipment and a unique architectural structure.

5. In the late 90’s and early 00’s, the construction of the multimillion dollar James A. Cannavino landmark was completed, with state of the art technology and impressive views of the River.

6. Marist began construction on the new Hancock center, located on campus, in Fall 2010 which cost $35 million dollars to construct and will be a technological hub for students, faculty and staff.

7. With 57,000 sq. ft, this expansive infrastructure will be dedicated to enhance the learning of students and a dedicated economic development/incubation space within the building will help turn great ideas into real businessesto keep Marist growing in the future.

8. Marist is also in plans of developing an underpass below Route 9 to accommodate traffic between the east and west sides of campus. Development planned to start this summer 2011, with millions of dollars being spent.

9. The campus is always well manicured no matter what time of the year and close attention to detail in many of the stone and steel buildings is important.

10. While all of these buildings make up Marist campus, the students are the ones who inhabit them and help to pay for the past and continued state of the art construction that is taking place.

11. While the students are academically responsible, they do have the funds and abilities to make their nights out memorable . Although economic times are tough, you are mostly always guaranteed to find a student out at least once a week spending money on cabs, alcohol, food and good times.

12. Marist is a very close knit community, sometimes being referenced to as a “bubble,” but regardless, the students are always willing to have fun, whether it involves spending money or not, which generally doesn’t seem to be an issue.

13. Once again, we can see that the Marist students are willing to come out together and have a good time, whether it involves spending money or not, but this doesn’t seem to hinder them from enjoying their college experience.

14. As we can see throughout the years Marist has turned into a beautiful, state-of-the art technological campus with an influx of money that can help it to grow even throughout these economically hard times. We see many multimillion dollar future projects taking place which clearly shows that Marist isn’t being devastated by these financially hard times. As well as Marist not being directly affected, many of the students, families or themselves, don’t seem to be affected too hard by the increasing tuition and this doesn’t seem to be stopping the influx of incoming students.

15. Photo Credit -All pictures were taken and adjusted by myself, Beth Boudart Marist Information -All information was obtained from the Marist website http://www.marist.edu/about/