Giving
CAMPAIGN CELEBRATION WEEKEND
Join campus community members, advocates, supporters, and alumni around the globe as together we mark the successful completion of Living the Promise, UCR’s ambitious $300 million comprehensive campaign.
Feb. 18-20, 2021
Campaign dollars raised: $309,500,783.74
UPDATED AS OF 1/11/2021
The Campaign for UC Riverside
“Living the Promise: The Campaign for UC Riverside” publicly launched in 2016 and will conclude in 2020 having raised more than $300 million to help students, support faculty and their research and creative activities, build new infrastructure around campus, and fund endowed chairs, research, and university programs. The successful completion of the university’s first comprehensive fundraising campaign is a historic milestone as UCR continues to gain widespread recognition for the research, teaching, and public service of its faculty, students, alumni, staff, and friends.
The knowledge created at UCR is vast—from air quality to public policy, from community-based medicine to regional economic development, the arts to engineering, plant genomics to biomaterials, and humanities to management. UC Riverside is one of the leading research universities in the world, and with the help of generous supporters through this fundraising campaign, we continue to lead the nation into the future.
Endowed Chairs
At the launch of the campaign in 2016, UC Riverside had 36 chairs endowed by donors for specific purposes and academic areas, with an ambitious goal to double the number of endowed chairs by the end of the campaign.
- CHASS professor/alumnus carries on legacy as Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair
- Louie Rodríguez is UCR’s Bank of America Chair in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Practice
- The Ted and Jo Dutton Presidential Chair in Education Policy and Politics supports analysis, action, and reflection in schools
- Endowed chairs: stepping stones to higher levels of research
- Melissa M. Wilcox named Holstein Chair
- Marilyn Fogel Appointed Inaugural Wilbur W. Mayhew Endowed Chair in Geo-Ecology
- High Chairs: Endowed chairs allow professors academic freedom, help universities honor donors, recruit and retain faculty
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An endowed chair is one of the most important and honored spots in higher education, because it fosters academic excellence and recognizes superior faculty.”
- Kim A. Wilcox, chancellor