WHERE YOUR GIFT IS NEEDED
Areas of Support
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The University of Michigan is conducting the most ambitious fundraising campaign in our history: The Michigan Difference. During this exciting time, our generous alumni and friends are helping the U-M to reach fundraising goals in the areas discussed below. Your gifts made through 2008 will help make us to reach our goals and to continue to make The Michigan Difference!
Student Support
Great students inspire faculty and challenge fellow students. They add to the vibrancy of our classrooms, libraries and laboratories.
An accessible education has always been part of the U-M mission. Scholarship support opens the doors to deserving students and eases their debt burden upon graduating. We want our undergraduates to focus on their education, not on how they will pay for it.
To ensure Michigan's distinction as a leader in graduate education and research, we seek fellowships to attract the finest students. Too often we lose talented students to well-endowed peer institutions able to offer full support. We want all of those exceptional students who can benefit from a Michigan education to have the opportunity.
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Faculty Support
The caliber of an academic institution rests upon the quality of its faculty, who are the lifeblood of the University. Like students, faculty are attracted to those institutions best equipped to help them reach their professional goals and where they are most likely to be associated with the most exciting colleagues and peers. Endowed professorships honor our best minds and make the U-M faculty stronger.
Some of our schools seek to increase their endowed professorships, while others look to create their first such chair. The University has more than 300 named professorships. We seek to achieve at least a 50 percent increase in endowed professorships in the next decade, with all of our schools and colleges benefiting.
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Facilities Support
While outstanding people make an institution, the places in which they do their work have a profound effect on their ability to be exceptional. There is a special joy that comes with exploring, researching and performing in fresh surroundings equipped with the latest technologies. We want our students, faculty, patients and patrons to have memorable experiences at Michigan. Facilities designed and renovated for the 21st century make that possible.
Universities create and preserve knowledge, and both require excellent physical facilities. The pace of our discoveries and the demands of society drive the need for facility renovation and expansion. Attractive, up-to-date buildings and campuses are essential recruitment tools, and essential tools for teaching and research in today's world.
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Program and Research Support
We are one of the nation's great public research universities, and our work extends from the humanities and natural sciences to the Life Sciences Institute, the Medical School and the College of Engineering. Our commitment to the creation of knowledge is really a dedication to help solve the complex problems facing the world in the environmental, biological and social arenas.
Our research goes hand in hand with our teaching, and students benefit from exceptional faculty whose continuous innovation is shared in the classroom and beyond.
The outstanding offerings of our schools and colleges make Michigan a stimulating institution for students, researchers, teachers and scholars. We seek to maintain and expand our strongest programs while developing new initiatives. In particular, our interdisciplinary programs stand out among an already exemplary number of courses and initiatives. Arts of Citizenship, the Program in the Environment, the Honors Program, the Women in Science and Engineering Program, and the New England Literature Program are but a sampling of only-at-Michigan opportunities with the potential to be the pinnacle of a student's experience.
Support will benefit programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels: multidisciplinary courses, museum and gallery exhibits, conferences, lectures, international study, film series and theme semesters.
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Discretionary Support
Discretionary support provides tremendous flexibility for our deans and directors as they adapt to ever-changing needs and demands. This support will go toward students, faculty support, emergency renovations, new academic initiatives, research assistance and the purchase of books, collections, supplies and equipment. The University is a dynamic place, and annual giving provides support for challenges that must be met and chances that must be seized immediately.
You can make a gift to academic unit or program annual funds right now through U-M's secure, encrypted system! You can designate up to three funds with each electronic transaction.
Thanks for your support!
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