Fuller Seminary Receives $4 Million Gift to Expand Arizona Campus

Fuller Seminary in Pasadena has received a significant boost for its expansion efforts at the Fuller Arizona campus in Phoenix, thanks to a $4 million gift from philanthropists David and Carol Eaton. The donation will be used to establish a new marriage and family therapy clinic as part of Fuller’s School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.

The clinic will provide critical training opportunities for students in the Seminary’s program and also offer mental health services to the public. 

According to David Emmanuel Goatley, Fuller’s president, the gift is “a critical ingredient in [the students’] supervised training and development that will set them up for a strong future in their professional lives.”

In recognition of the couple’s decades-long support for Fuller and its Arizona campus, the seminary has renamed the campus the “Fuller Arizona, the Carol and David Eaton Campus” and the new mental health clinic will bear the Eaton name.

Carol Eaton was instrumental in the opening of the Fuller Arizona campus in 1977 and David Eaton is a former trustee, lawyer, and developer. 

“We’re thrilled to be able to support this wonderful learning community,” said Carol Eaton, who praised Fuller for its decades of work training people to “share God’s love through their ministries and their work.”

Fuller Seminary, founded in Pasadena in 1947, is one of the largest nondenominational seminaries in the world, serving more than 3,000 students in its master’s and doctoral programs. With campuses in Pasadena, Houston, and Phoenix, students have the option to take classes in person, online, or through a hybrid of the two.