Campaign Priorities

The James J. Maguire '58 Campus

Goal: $70,000,000
Raised to Date: $35,260,963

Few universities have the opportunity to completely transform their campus with a single dramatic event. The purchase of the Merion Campus of Episcopal Academy represents a watershed moment for Saint Joseph's University. Not since the bold decision to purchase the City Avenue campus in the 1920s has such a historic opportunity presented itself.

The new campus, a 38-acre contiguous parcel along City Avenue, will be called the James J. Maguire '58 Campus in honor of alumnus Jim Maguire, who, along with his wife, Frannie, made a generous lead gift toward the purchase of the property.

With this single event, the issues associated with an infrastructure stretched to the limit following a more than two-fold increase in the student body are swept away. The Maguire Campus represents an astounding 58 percent increase to the University's current footprint and adds the following:

• 286,000 square feet of space
• 52 classrooms and 113 offices
• 8 laboratories
• 14.5 acres of playing fields
• 319 parking spaces

Among Catholic institutions in the Northeast, Saint Joseph's ranks near the bottom in total acreage. The Maguire Campus acquisition instantly changes this dynamic, providing much-needed breathing room and space for the arts, for program enhancement, for recreation, and especially, room for innovation.