Paying the Price for Excellence

Sources of funds for the College for the 1993-94 fiscal year can be shown by the following categories and percentages.
Private Support - 12 percent
State Support - 13 percent
Tuition - 28 percent
Grants and Contracts - 47 percent

The most rapidly growing of these sources is private support. In fact, this growth in the last year has roughly compensated for a decline in state support.

Private support received during the past fiscal year (cash receipts and gifts-in-kind, not including deferred gifts) totaled $8,679,253. This support can be broken down into the following categories.

Cash additions to the College's endowment- $4,350,804
Cash gifts for purposes specified by donors - $1,335,213
Unrestricted cash gifts to the Dean's Fund for Excellence -$320,447
Cash for capital purposes (laboratory upgrades and purchases of equipment) - $1,737,311
Gifts-in-kind (gifts of equipment) - $935,478 This private support was spent in the following ways.
Direct student support (individual undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships, Minority Engineering Program [MEP] scholarships and Women in Engineering [WIEP] scholarships) - 8 percent
Academic program support (Integrated Teaching Laboratory curriculum development, MEP, WIEP, Herbst Program of Humanities for Engineers, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program) - 29 percent
Faculty support (faculty teaching fellowships, advising awards, corporate matching funds for National Science Foundation Young Investigators, etc.) - 21 percent
ITL construction - 14 percent
Gifts-in-kind - 11 percent
Individual departmental uses and other capital uses - 17 percent

Private Support Makes It Possible

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU-Boulder is a great engineering college with a growing national reputation in terms of the quality of its students, its faculty, its educational programs and instructional innovations, and its research.

How is all this possible? You - our alumni and friends -make it happen. Every year, you are asked to help support our students, faculty, and programs. And every year, you invest a little bit more to help us maintain our cycle of continuous improvement. In the past, we have asked you to contribute to a private resource pool, which has grown to account for almost 12 percent of the College's total budget. This resource is critical as we strive to continue to make the educational experience here an exceptional one for our students.

As you may be aware, our private support now almost equals our support from the state, which represents about 13 percent of our total budget.

Thanks to our donors. Clearly, without you, this College's successes and excellence would not be possible. For a list of the College's donors e-mail schumake@ucsub.colorado.edu for a hard copy of this CUTechnology publication.

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