UCLA's systemwide ranking
First in private giving for year
BY MIKE PADILLA
ucla today
Campaign UCLA received more than $268 million in private gifts
and grants during 2003-2004, marking the sixth consecutive year
in which UCLA’s gift total has surpassed $250 million. This
places UCLA first in private giving among UC campuses for the year.
This figure, which reflects gifts and pledges received between
July 1, 2003, and June 30, 2004, propelled the total for the Campaign
to more than $2.56 billion, exceeding the $2.4-billion goal by nearly
7% in advance of the Campaign’s 2005 conclusion.
In conjunction with Campaign UCLA, the university also launched
last June the Ensuring Academic Excellence Initiative, designed
to generate $250 million in private commitments through 2009 specifically
to help attract and retain top students and faculty.
Among the initiative’s financial goals are to raise $100
million to fund 100 new endowed chairs, $100 million to fund graduate
fellowships and scholarships in the UCLA College, and $50 million
for fellowships and scholarships in UCLA’s professional schools.
“This new initiative continues our work to attract top-flight
scholars and students in the face of widening funding disparities
between elite public research universities and private institutions,”
Chancellor Albert Carnesale said.
Advancing the initiative, six new chairs were funded in the UCLA
College during the past year through gifts totaling more than $7.8
million, as well as 27 fellowships totaling nearly $3.4 million.
Other highlights include a $25-million gift from Jane and Terry
Semel to UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) to advance
interdisciplinary research and teaching in the neurosciences. The
gift is the largest ever made to NPI, which will be renamed the
Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior
at UCLA.
The School of the Arts and Architecture also received $520,000
from Ann and Jerry S. Moss to support international undergraduate
and graduate scholars and artists. The School of Public Affairs
received $500,000 from the estate of Edward E. Hildebrand to support
graduate students pursuing a field related to Canadian studies.
And from UCLA Professor Emeritus Florence H. Ridley, the Department
of English received $883,000 to create the Lily Bess Campbell, Ada
Nisbet and Florence H. Ridley Graduate Fellowship.
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