Development Updates
The information below is provided by:
Carolyn Dickens, Director of Development | Email: cdickens@memphis.edu
Fundraising totals are not yet available for the year ended June 30. However, the pandemic had a few gifts of note:
- $544K payment towards two new endowments in English (pledged the previous year) creating
a professorship and student fellowship (remaining pledge to be paid this year)
- $150K for naming the IIS area in the new STEM building
- $100K to establish a new endowment for assisting students with wages for unpaid internships
in Social Work
- $68K Choctaw – funds and equipment for CERI
- $50K for Political Science to assist the research/work of one of their faculty members
- Bequest of $50K for Physics
- $45K for the College
- $40K for Psychology to assist Clinical PhD students with travel for internships and speaker
series
- $20K for Chucalissa
- $20K for Travel Enrichment Fund
- $13K for the Look Before You Leap Career Services Programs for the College