Departmental Discretionary Fund

Many alumni send us gifts for our departmental discretionary account. We use this money for a number of important aspects of our program that would not exist without these gifts. One is our newsletter. The university is considering providing every department a budget line to support a newsletter, but this has not happened yet. It costs us approximately $7,000 to print and distribute our newsletter to our approximately 2,000 alumni. Our discretionary account also supports the two meetings a year of our advisory board, which has been very beneficial for both improving our educational program and for further fund raising initiatives. We also use our discretionary account to host a small ceremony for our graduating students two times a year at the end of the fall and spring semesters, departmental get-togethers such as our annual spring awards assembly held each April to honor our most outstanding students, and the weekly colloquim series.

Finally discretionary money is important for addressing many small items and initiatives which allow us to maintain and improve our program independent of the general budgetary condition of the university. As chair of the department, the discretionary account makes my work much more effective. For all those who have donated to this account in the past – thanks.

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