The Centennial Campaign: YOU DID IT!

The goal was $42.5 million. You contributed over $52.6 million.

In July 1987, the College began the process of setting priorities and formulating a Centennial Campaign to culminate December 31, 1993. The goals were ambitious: to raise $14.5 million in endowment monies for students, faculty and programs; to raise capital funds of $15 million and $13 million in Annual Fund gifts. You did it and more.

What difference did you make?

• Privately funded scholarships in the College more than tripled.
• Five new professorships were endowed.
• The undergraduate curriculum was broadened through the Herbst Humanities in Engineering program.
• The new Gemmill Engineering Library was built.
• Numerous departmental laboratories, both for teaching and research, were established or refurbished.
• We began fund raising for the new Integrated Teaching Laboratory (ITL) and secured the major gifts to assure that we would move forward.

Our tasks are clear.

• We must ensure that the ITL is built on time, is properly equipped, and that we have the resources to support the vital elements of change: the redesign of the undergraduate engineering curriculum and the tools needed by our students in the discovery of engineering practice. We must raise $2.9 million by June 1996.
• CU-Boulder and especially, this College, must not lose our best students because other institutions can lure them with offers of scholarships we do not have. No student who is qualified should be prevented from attending the College because of finances. Therefore, we will continue to make scholarship monies a priority for our fund-raising efforts.
• At the heart of any university is its faculty. There are decreasing resources to provide rewards, and more and more demands are made on them. To recognize inspirational teaching and innovation, we need to expand the number of Endowed Teaching Professorships linked to ITL curricular innovation.
• And as always, among the most valuable dollars given are those that are unrestricted and allow the College to nurture excellence wherever and whenever it appears. Annual Fund gifts can be used to support our Minority Engineering Program, our Women in Engineering Program, departmental laboratories and equipment, a joint Center for Entrepreneurship in partnership with the College of Business, student society activities, and more.

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