Giving Back

Your support enables us to attract and retain the highest caliber of faculty, students and programming through student scholarships, resources for bringing cutting edge advances that expose our students and faculty to the field's leading scholars. Help us to continue providing the quality of education expected of a nationally recognized institution serving the best and brightest minds of the state of Illinois.

An unrestricted gift is simply a gift with no restrictions from the donor on how it is to be used. Such gifts allow the president flexibility in determining how to use funding where it can have the greatest impact, address priorities and bring immediate benefits to the college as a whole by supporting:

• Student scholarships
• Program initiatives
• Classrooms and facilities
• Faculty and curricular development
• Faculty recruitment

Hundreds of companies, large, small, local or national, match their employee's charitable donations.

You can check with your - or your spouse's - Human Resources department to find out if the company matches gifts. This is a great way to increase your gift to the college.

Absolutely! To help departments and programs meet their most pressing needs, many alumni and friends choose to designate a gift to an established, specialized fund through the Nursing Annual Appeal.

Gifts can be designated to any fund:

• Unrestricted Funds
• Sister Ludgera Fund
• Restricted Funds
• College of Nursing Building Fund
• College of Nursing Scholarship Fund
• Sharon Foss Education Fund

Scholarships and Awards

• Miriam and Earl Swords Scholarship Fund
• Terri O'Hern-Render and Mary Jane O'Hern Scholarship Fund
• College of Nursing Scholarship Fund
• Brian Alexander Scholarship Endowment
• Carol & Philip Graves Scholarship Endowment
• Angela Hank Scholarship Endowment
• Alumni Scholarship