IT STARTS WITH
All of Us
Dear Illinois family & friends,
We change lives at Illinois. We expose our students to new ideas and different cultures. We encourage them to ask difficult questions. We ask them to use their skills and talents to make a measurable impact on the world.
Our university was founded 150 years ago with these values in mind, and today we continue to have the courage to take risks on new ideas and new endeavors. Illinois researchers are consistently doing innovative work that addresses our greatest needs, from engineering medicine to feeding the world. We do this with ambition. With creativity. With passion.
An important part of our ability to implement our vision comes from private support. It comes from you.
With Illinois is our most ambitious fundraising campaign to date. I’d like to invite you to show your support for the life-changing work we do at Illinois. Private investments are essential to support our students, faculty, research, and infrastructure.
This university was founded to actively imagine and actively engage with the world around us to deliver a better future. We have changed to meet the needs of each generation. We are not the same university we were 150 years ago: we are bigger, we are better and now we are setting out to redefine the land-grant mission for the 21st century.
We hope you will support our vision, hopes, and aspirations for the future. As we embark on this campaign, I’m excited to see what we will accomplish together.
Robert J. JonesChancellor
OUR PROGRESS
Goal
$2.25B
Progress
$1.45B
Students
& Faculty
Research
Capital Projects
Other
Progress as of Oct. 30, 2018.
HIGHLIGHTS
With Illinois Campaign Goal
Total Dollars Raised to Date
Number of Gifts to Date
Number of Donors to Date
DONORS FROM OVER 100 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE
OUR PRIORITIES
PROPELLING BRIGHT MINDS
They say an institution is only as good as its people. That makes us very fortunate at Illinois. We attract smart, strong, and accomplished students who go on to make us proud long after they graduate. Our faculty and staff are prolific scholars, creative thinkers, and fearless intellectual pioneers who make creating a world-class educational experience a priority at Illinois. We value collaboration. We value access. We value the people who come together to make this place exceptional.
View PrioritiesPROPELLING BRIGHT MINDS
Priority: Student and Faculty Support
Students and faculty have been drawn to Illinois because they know they can pursue their curiosities in a place that fosters exemplary ideals and where aspiration has no boundaries. Donor support of scholarship funds, named faculty positions, and department chairs enriches the educational experience and attracts the most promising scholars to our university.
FINDING SOLUTIONS TO THE WORLD'S CHALLENGES
Illinois researchers face the world's challenges head on with persistence, determination, and innovation. We couple our breadth of expertise and practical approach to fundamental science with a compassionate, global commitment to our work.
View PrioritiesFINDING SOLUTIONS TO THE WORLD'S CHALLENGES
Priority: Groundbreaking and Interdisciplinary Research
Amazing discoveries happen when you bring a diverse group of scholars together. This culture of interdisciplinary research is deeply embedded at Illinois. Places such as the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and the new Siebel Center for Design are devoted to thinking of new ways to approach the world’s problems.
A UNIVERSITY AT THE HEART OF ILLINOIS
While the impact of our innovations can be felt around the world, we also have a profound impact on and presence within our state lines. Our graduates bring their expertise in business, healthcare, education, and technology to communities across Illinois. And whether we wear our Illini pride on our jersey or bring it to the office with us every day, the orange and blue are never hard to find.
View PrioritiesA UNIVERSITY AT THE HEART OF ILLINOIS
Priority: Capital Projects
A culture of excellence depends, in part, on an excellent infrastructure. An investment in the buildings, laboratories, and cultural spaces on our campus ensures our faculty and students have supportive spaces in which to work, create, invent, and learn.
A UNIVERSITY OF DISTINCTION
There is an energy that is deeply felt in this community. These 9.9 square miles are fertile land for discovery, innovation, and sustained excellence. Scholars who are preeminent in their fields, students whose promise seems boundless. We keep our gaze forward, imagining and building what is next. Just as we've done for the last 150 years.
View PrioritiesA UNIVERSITY OF DISTINCTION
Priority: Programs and unrestricted support
Our excellence today is built, in part, on the investment of past generations who believed in our ability to make a difference in the world. An important component to that is providing exceptional programs and services that benefit the entire university community, as well as the ability to be nimble and respond to pressing needs.
COLLEGE & UNIT PRIORITIES
Our colleges and units need your support to help reach our ambitious goals as we shape the future of our university, ensuring we continue to fulfill our landgrant mission and profoundly impact the world for the next 150 years.
How You Can Help