Grow and expand the School’s academic offerings by establishing new departments and support units to create innovative academic, professional, and online degree and certificate programs. Key ways to support this growth include giving to endowed scholarships that attract high-achieving students, Women’s Leadership funds that foster mentorship and retention of underrepresented populations, Academic Programs Seed Funds that enable the launch of new degrees, and the Dean’s Excellence Fund, which provides flexible resources to support expansion efforts and student needs.

Engage with faculty, graduate researchers, and corporate partners to expand the School’s research efforts—both in established disciplines and emerging fields such as computation, health, energy, big data, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, aerospace, and cybersecurity. Key ways to support this growth include giving to endowed faculty positions, endowed lecture and speaker series to foster innovation and industry engagement, and endowed program funds for lab equipment, stipends, and research awards.

Foster student success through meaningful experiential learning opportunities such as living-learning communities, undergraduate research, internships, student organizations, competition teams, and study abroad programs. Key ways to support transformational learning include giving to endowed research funds for undergraduate and summer research, student success endowments for organizations and competition teams, study abroad scholarships, and endowed humanitarian project funds that support student and faculty engagement in service projects locally and globally.