Dear Former Students,
Over the next 30 Days, the CDA Dallas Campus has an opportunity to take another big step towards putting down generational roots, and I would love for you to consider how you can help and how I can help honor your contribution.
Let me explain.
As I finish my fifteenth year at CDA, I was recently asked to reflect on how I have changed over those years. Sure, the person asking the question pointed out that I had more hair on my head and less on my face back in 2010, but I still redeemed the question by taking the opportunity to reflect on more than just the simple fact that I was 25 years old when I started teaching at CDA and am approaching 40 now.
Something special happens when you spend significant time with students as they grow during their most formative years. And whatever it is that happens, it is a two way street. It can be a frustrating, annoying, and confusing time, full of hurt feelings and unmet expectations. But there are also moments of joy, progress, and mutual encouragement. It is exactly the type of experience that shapes both parties for the better.
As students who I have had the honor of teaching, you all have left me and my family better than you found us, and I certainly hope the reverse is true.
I am now reaching the stage in my career where former students are having children and enrolling them at CDA. This has caused me to reflect on ways that the sort of work being done here at CDA can continue for generations.
In 2018, our family moved from the Flower Mound campus to our younger campus in Dallas. Since that time, we have started a Monday/Wednesday program, added an entire Rhetoric School, built-out our Athletic and Fine Arts offerings, and grown from a campus of 117 students with a dozen faculty to over 500 students served by over 60 faculty and staff.
After a six year search, we recently closed on a beautiful permanent home for this growing campus and—praise God!—we will move in to the new space in December 2025.
We have raised $6.3 million for this project already, and have been able to begin Phase 1 of renovations, which includes a full perimeter fence, a city-required storm shelter, gym upgrades, and all new classrooms, offices, and meeting spaces for our Grammar School students and teachers.
Over the next 30 Days, we have an opportunity to complete additional renovations that will create meaningful spaces for all of our Logic & Rhetoric classrooms, offices, and meeting rooms.
With less than one month left to go, we are only $405,000 away from being able to say “Yes” to this work so that it can be finished before we move in. If we miss the deadline, these classrooms, offices, and meeting spaces will need to be funded and completed in the years to come.
Would you consider a gift to this campaign and, in return, be willing to be named on an Alumni Fellowship plaque that will hang in my future office? I would love for our current and future students to see tangible examples of Alumni giving sacrificially for the benefit of those who follow them.
Some of you are well into your careers; others of you are still completing your studies. As someone who has chose two professions with more eternal than earthly rewards … I fully embrace the reality that the amount of the gift is tertiary to the desire to give and the sacrifice involved. With that in mind, there are various ways that you can be included on the Alumni Fellowship board.
Alumni Fellowship Gifts or Pledges Made by May 1st
- Undergraduate Students: $100 or more
- Graduate Students: $500 or more
- Young Professionals: $1000 or more
If you would like to hear more about a leadership or sustaining Alumni Fellowship Gift, please do reach out!
*You can shoot me an email or click here to make your Alumni Fellowship gift.
If you live in the area, I would love to arrange for a Hardhat tour of the renovations. If not, please do not hesitate to reach out; I would love to hear from you!
