Giving

CREATE AN ENDOWMENT

  • Donors may create or endow a number of different types of funds that they may name after themselves or someone they wish to honor. Scholarships, chairs, departments and special purpose funds are available.
  • The donor may accumulate gifts toward the endowment minimum. Planned and estate gifts may also be used to create endowed funds.
  • Named Scholarships may be endowed with a gift of $25,000 (or with a multi-year pledge to establish an endowment of $25,000 or more).
  • Academic chairs and professorships may be established with a gift of $500,000. A department or program can be endowed with a gift of $1,000,000.
  • Donors may accumulate gifts toward endowing a chair, professorship, or department with an initial gift of $100,000.