On behalf of Willamette University’s students and professors, I offer my sincere thanks for your investment in the Willamette Fund during the 2011-2012 academic and fiscal year. It’s your support that allows me to announce a record breaking fundraising year for the Willamette Fund, achieving over $1.3 million in unrestricted support for our undergraduate and graduate students and faculty. Please review this report to learn more about how your investment, joined with thousands of alumni, parents, employees and friends, impacted Willamette.
- Overview of Giving
- College of Liberal Arts
- College of Law
- Atkinson Graduate School of Management
- Graduate School of Education
Overview of Giving
Unrestricted support is the backbone of Willamette’s undergraduate and graduate experiences. Gifts from alumni, parents and friends to Willamette’s unrestricted funds are critical to enriching our excellent curricular and co-curricular programs, supporting our renowned faculty, and providing scholarship assistance to our enterprising students. In so many ways, contributions to the University’s unrestricted funds touch every corner of campus and make a difference every day to our Willamette community.
College of Liberal Arts
Unrestricted gifts to the College of Liberal Arts supported 1,949 undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts and the celebrated faculty who both challenged and inspired these students. Gifts to CLA are critical to meeting the increasing need for scholarship support, providing for the enrichment and research of our faculty, and enhancing the cutting-edge academic and co-curricular programs for which Willamette is known.
College of Law
Unrestricted support for the College of Law helps to provide a first-rate legal education and a distinctive learning environment to the law school’s 430 students.
Read more → to learn how your support of the College of Law impacted law students and faculty during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Atkinson Graduate School of Management
Unrestricted support for the Atkinson Graduate School of Management helps provide MBA students with a learning experience that is recognized for the excellence of its programs, the quality of its students, and the dedication of its faculty.
Read more → to learn how your support of the Atkinson Graduate School of Management made an important difference in the continued success of Willamette’s MBA program.
Graduate School of Education
Unrestricted support for Willamette University’s Graduate School of Education helped to support 113 degree-seeking students and 200 endorsement-seeking students as they prepared to take the lead within their fields of education. Read more to learn how your unrestricted gifts to the Graduate School of Education supported its extraordinary students and dedicated faculty.
Thank you for your investment during the 2011-2012 academic and fiscal year.
A strong annual fund is important to every university. The Willamette Fund (Willamette’s annual fund) has been called a living endowment, providing essential support each year to Willamette’s students, professors and facilities. The generosity and support of alumni, parents, Willamette staff, friends and current students allows Willamette the ability to budget wisely, utilizing the Willamette Fund to support all areas of the University.
Without this support, it would take an additional $26 million in Willamette’s endowment, or an additional tuition charge of $1,500 annually per student at each of the schools to equal the support provided by the Willamette Fund.
Please review this report to see Willamette Fund dollars in use. We thank our incredible investors during the 2011-2012 academic and fiscal year.