The TASIS campus puts students at the heart: the way they move through and around beautiful buildings as their days progress; the heights they can achieve with state-of-the-art classrooms and equipment; and the comfort and inspiration they find in the many places where they work, play, and rest. We are committed to creating spaces and buildings that inspire and connect our community.

It is now time to complete the Upper Campus - Collina Alta, before moving down the hill to tackle Collina Bassa - Lower Campus. The First Phase will include a major renovation of Belvedere to serve as the Elementary School Center and the construction of three magnificent buildings: MacDermid Hall (classrooms, student bedrooms, faculty apartments, and common spaces), MacDermid Music Center (music classrooms and practice studios), and Le Pergole (Elementary School classrooms and terraces with science lab and greenhouse below). 

Will you help our students reach new heights as we complete Collina Alta? There are still remaining naming opportunities for this important phase of the project. Will you support TASIS with a donation to the Global Village Building Campaign?

Thanks to our Founder M. Crist Fleming’s indomitable spirit in the face of countless obstacles, having the courage to dream big has been woven into the fabric of TASIS since the beginning. Complacency has never been an option at TASIS—“It’s either forward or backwards, there’s no standing still,” said Mrs. Fleming famously—and after staring down the extraordinary challenges of the past few years, we are once again moving forward.

Why is now the time to embark on the most ambitious stage of our Global Village yet? The answer is simple: it’s what our students deserve. The resilience they’ve shown us through these difficult times has been an inspiration. They have never stopped moving forward or looking upward. Alexia Dochnal, our 2022 Valedictorian, had every reason to complain about the manner in which her final three years of High School were compromised by circumstances beyond her control but instead left TASIS with this parting remark: “Our school’s commitment to truth, goodness, and beauty inspires students to strive toward academic and personal growth and improvement whenever possible, a goal I hope to carry with me forever.”

To carry with me forever. Our alumni have long understood that the value of a TASIS education extends well beyond the moment they receive their diploma. The experiences our students have here—the vibrant interactions with first-rate teachers and advisors, the exposure to an unparalleled international community, and the myriad opportunities to serve others—all under the backdrop of a magnificent campus setting do, in fact, leave them changed forever. Nearly 60 years after his graduation, Donald MacDermid ’61—whose name will be affixed to the crown jewel of Collina Alta—declared, “My love for TASIS hasn’t changed. It opened me up, and I stayed open. It’s always with me because of what it did to me. It changed my life. TASIS has been terribly important to me. It made me larger, in a sense. It made me who I am.” 

For the students of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, we remain committed to creating spaces and buildings that inspire and connect our community. We are determined to finish the Global Village we’ve dreamt about for decades, but we cannot do so alone. If you feel a strong connection to TASIS—if the school helped shape you into who you are today—will you move us forward? Will you look upward and envision what the completion of Collina Alta will mean for the future of TASIS?

It's either forward or backward: there's no standing still.

TASIS Founder M. Crist Fleming