Colby College's fund-raising campaign goes public quickly

The co-chair of Colby College’s recently announced $750 million fund-raising campaign puts remarkably little emphasis on its end date. “If you had picked up the phone and asked me, ‘Bob, what is the end date of the campaign?’ I would say, ‘I’m not sure,’” said Robert E. Diamond, a former chair of Colby’s Board of Trustees and current trustee who is co-chairing the campaign. “In all the discussions we had, I think that probably got less discussion than anything else.” The college...