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Endowments
Support scholarships, departmental needs, faculty, and other areas.
Enhance The ¼«ËÙÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Experience
Endowments help the university stay competitive when it comes to attracting students and faculty, enhancing departmental and programmatic offerings and providing research opportunities.
Types Of Endowments:
Endowed Scholarships
Endowed scholarships are very important to our students since more than 95% of them receive financial aid. The scholarships are often the difference as to whether or not a student is able to attend the university.
Endowed Department & Program Funds
Program and department endowments allow areas across campus to purchase equipment, programs, supplies, materials and other needs not available through their current operating budgets.
Endowed funds allow a department to purchase equipment, programs, supplies, materials and other needs not available through current operating budgets.
Faculty Endowments
Creating an Endowed Chair, Professorship or Fellowship is one of the most significant investments a donor can make to ¼«ËÙÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¿ª½±¼Ç¼. These positions of distinction provide the resources our faculty need to do outstanding work in advancing their scholarly pursuits and teaching excellence. They also confer prestige upon the holder and the University. As a result, Chairs, Professorships and Fellowships provide ¼«ËÙÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¿ª½±¼Ç¼ with an important tool in recruiting and retaining the best and brightest faculty and enhance the quality of the entire academic program.
How To Establish Endowments
The donor will work with a ¼«ËÙÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¿ª½±¼Ç¼ gift officer to select the name and determine the purpose or funding designation of the specific endowment they are wishing to establish.
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Endowed Scholarships
Endowed scholarships may be named for the donors of the funds or in honor or memory of persons designated by the donors. An endowment principal of at least $25,000 is necessary to name and establish an endowed scholarship.
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Endowed Department & Program Funds
Endowed department and program funds may be named for the donors of the funds or in honor or memory of persons designated by the donors. An endowment principal of at least $25,000 is necessary to name and establish either of these endowments.
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Endowed Chairs
Endowed Chairs confer the highest honorary title to a ¼«ËÙÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¿ª½±¼Ç¼ faculty member. Endowed chairs may be named to honor the donors of the funds used to establish such chairs, or in honor or memory of persons designated by the donors. An endowment principal of at least $1,000,000 is necessary to name and establish an endowed chair.
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Endowed Professorships
Endowed Professorships enhance the quality of ¼«ËÙÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¿ª½±¼Ç¼’s academic program and increases the ability of the university to recruit and retain faculty members. Endowed professorships may be named to honor the donors of the funds used to establish such endowments, or in honor or memory of persons designated by the donors. An endowment principal of at least $500,000 is necessary to name and establish an endowed professorship.
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Endowed Fellowships
Endowed Fellowships are intended to support new, early-career faculty members as they develop professionally. Endowed fellowships may be named to honor the donors of the funds used to establish such endowments, or in honor or memory of persons designated by the donors. An endowment principal of at least $100,000 is necessary to name and establish an endowed fellowship.
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