College of Wooster Endowment

College of Wooster Endowment

The College of Wooster Endowment traces its roots to the college's founding in 1866 in Wooster, Ohio. President Anne E. McCall has led the institution since 2023, overseeing a permanent capital base that supports a student body of more than 1,600 undergraduates across 100 areas of study. Investment governance falls under a Board of Trustees helmed by Sally Staley, whose prior tenure as CIO of Case Western Reserve University brings direct institutional portfolio management expertise to the committee. The endowment deploys across a wide mandate — spanning buyout, early-stage and seed venture, growth equity, expansion-stage, natural resources, secondaries, and fund-of-funds commitments. The geographic footprint is anchored in the United States, with the endowment's operational home entirely in Wooster, Ohio. The College joined the NACUBO, the Great Lakes Colleges Association (a consortium of 13 private liberal arts colleges), and the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium — a network including Oberlin, Kenyon, Denison, and Ohio Wesleyan. These affiliations create shared-sourcing channels and collective benchmarking environments. The endowment, tagged at an estimated $438M (Altss estimate), operates without adjacent philanthropic investment vehicles; its sole function is sustaining the college's educational mission through long-term asset allocation. The board includes Donald Kohn, former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, injecting a distinct macroeconomic and regulatory lens into asset-liability discussions. This governance architecture — pairing a CIO-trained chair with a former central-bank vice chairman — separates Wooster's investment committee from the standard trustee model at similarly sized endowments. The structure provides in-house technical fluency without outsourcing the investment office.