Private support enables the University of Delaware to sustain a legacy of excellence by providing funds for new facilities, leading-edge technology, scholarships to attract the best and brightest students, and endowed professorships to attract and retain the finest teachers and researchers.

Private support comes from diverse sources—alumni, friends, students, faculty, corporations, and corporate and private foundations. All share the common goal of ensuring that the University of Delaware can realize its full potential as one of the nation’s leading institutions of higher education.

The generosity of our private donors reached unprecedented levels in the 1990s, with significant increases in giving each year culminating in a record total of $40.8 million in Fiscal Year 1998-99, which ended June 30, 1999. In addition, the University is in the midst of the five-year, $225 million Campaign for Delaware, the first comprehensive fund-raising campaign in the history of the institution. The Campaign will run through 2003, and already has reached about 75 percent of the goal.

The University is deeply appreciative of the generosity of its alumni and friends, and looks forward to an enduring partnership as we move forward to meet the challenges of the 21st century.