The University of
California, San Diego – one of the youngest universities
in the nation to launch a $1 billion comprehensive fund-raising
campaign – announced today that it has raised a total
of $757.7 million in gifts contributed by over 77,000 alumni,
parents and friends of the university for The Campaign for
UCSD: Imagine What’s Next. UCSD expects to
achieve the remaining $242.3 million before the seven-year
campaign concludes in June 2007.
A record $147.3 million
in private support was received during the 2004-2005 fiscal
year, which continues the university’s momentum toward
its $1 billion fund-raising goal. The university reports that
this has been the most successful year in private support
in the history of the campus. UCSD’s fiscal year begins
on July 1 and concludes on June 30.
“Extraordinary
things are happening in classrooms and laboratories across
the UCSD campus, and this progress is a direct result of the
generous gifts from thousands of individuals, families, foundations
and corporations,” said Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of
the University of California, San Diego. “Today we are
more than seventy-five percent toward our campaign goal, but
there is still much work to be done. I am confident that UCSD
will meet the challenge for the future, as we invite supporters
to help us imagine the next exciting era for our university.”
Top-ranked UCSD,
which has gained a reputation as an entrepreneurial and innovative
educational institution, is using campaign dollars to transform
the campus through a new phase of growth and evolution.
Campaign gifts have
already funded a variety of needs ranging from scholarships
to help the best and brightest students attend UCSD, to nearly
30 endowed chairs established to support and retain outstanding
faculty in specialized and interdisciplinary areas of study
throughout the university. Contributions to UCSD’s multi-year
fund-raising initiative have also enabled the university to
establish two new professional schools – pharmacy and
management – as well as fund a long list of research
and health initiatives.
The Campaign for
UCSD reports that 50 percent of the donors to date are friends
of the university, 28 percent are alumni and 15 percent are
parents. Corporations, foundations and organizations represent
the remaining seven percent of the donors.
Major campaign milestones
achieved by UCSD in 2004-2005 include:
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A $30 million gift from The Skaggs Institute for Research
to support groundbreaking academic and research efforts
at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences;
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A
total of $30 million for the Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular
Center initiative, including a commitment of $10 million
from Richard and Maria (Gaby) Sulpizio, to fund a state-of-the-art
facility for UCSD’s patient care and clinical research
activities in heart and vascular disease and stroke management;
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The
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) gift
of $4 million to the Beyster Institute at the Rady School
of Management to promote global entrepreneurship, employee
ownership, and economic development through consulting,
training and international projects;
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A
$4 million gift from Donald and Darlene Shiley to support
UCSD’s renowned Alzheimer’s disease research
at the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Center;
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A
gift of $4.8 million from the Rik and Flo Henrikson Trust
to be added to the other bequests from their trust, which
has created UCSD’s single largest unrestricted endowment
totaling over $14.9 million. The income from this endowment
helps fund the university’s greatest needs and important
emerging opportunities, such as student scholarships and
fellowships;
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A
grant of $1.4 million awarded by the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that
supports the use of innovative technologies in a long-term
study of the California Current ecosystem. In addition,
the Foundation also provided a gift of $1.76 million to
the UCSD Supercomputer Center to develop a next-generation
database system for tracking changes in marine and lake
environments;
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An
anonymous gift of $1 million to the Department of Ophthalmology
given for faculty recruitment and retention – a top
priority of the campaign. This donation allows the department
to hire two scientists to work in the area of glaucoma research.
With higher education’s
share of state revenue declining each year, the University
of California, San Diego must increasingly rely on financial
support from private sources. Gifts made by alumni and friends
play an important role in keeping the university at the forefront
of academic and research excellence. For more information,
call (858)534-1610 or visit campaign.ucsd.edu.
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