Let’s make history together
Fa l l 2 013 r e p o r t
It’s crunch time.
The Campaign for Texas is in its eighth and final year, and we’re
three-quarters of the way toward our $3 billion goal.
It’s time to take stock of how far we’ve come and what we still have
to accomplish. With your help, The University of Texas at Austin has made great strides in the past seven years, earning rankings among the world’s best universities. We have transformed the undergraduate experience, and we are leading the national conversation about the future of higher education. Our research is changing the world, thanks in part to modern facilities that enable our faculty to lead and innovate.
But we’re not done. In its final year the campaign faces its
steepest challenge yet. Inside, we’ll look at the past, present, and future of UT and the Campaign for Texas, both by the numbers and in human terms.
Thanks for helping us get this far. Now, let’s make history together.
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HOW FAR WE’VE COME
2013-14 rankings in past 10 years, the university of texas at austin
16th filed Among Public
Research
Universities*
more than 2,000 patents
27th WorldwiDE*
signed 274 licenses
generated
$128 million in licensing revenues * ** ***
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U.S. News & World Report and Times Higher Education rankings. Campaign totals include $11,646,628 in Texas Exes members dues between FY2006-07 and FY2011-12. Campaign participation percentage includes 26,400 alumni donors whose only giving to the campaign is for Texas Exes membership dues between FY2006-07 and FY2011-12.
HOW WE GOT HERE $3 billion campaign goal:
amount raised:
$2.36 billion
**
record fundraising year
$453 million
in 2012-2013, besting previous annual
record of $366 million
alumni giving
1,370
31.4% of alumni
EndowmentS
CREATED
HOOK ’EM HORNS
have
contributed***
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Students Our students are why we’re here. Thanks to gifts given during the Campaign for Texas, our student body includes some of the nation’s most promising young scholars — those with both the desire and the capacity to change the world.
$275 million 36,146 gifts
Ashley Chang Elizabeth Shatto Massey and John H. Massey Forty Acres Scholarship
Chang, who graduated first in her high school class of 500, had
colleges lining up to offer her scholarships. She chose UT because of the Forty Acres Scholars Program, which funds not only a full ride but also summer enrichment activities such as study abroad, community service, research, and internships.
“It’s more than a financial contribution,” said Chang, now in her third
year at UT. “It’s a life-changing experience that they’ve offered me.”
Chang has participated in UT’s Freshman Research Initiative as
both a student and a mentor and spent a summer shadowing a pediatric resident at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Before coming to UT she completed a research internship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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FACULTY
Our faculty is the intellectual heart of our community. Teachers and scholars, they prepare the next generation of leaders while conducting research that answers the challenges of our time.
$86 million 3,072 gifts
Molly Bray Susan T. Jastrow Human Ecology Chair for Excellence in Nutritional Sciences
If you couldn’t drag yourself to the gym this morning, part of the reason may be in your genes. Bray studies genetics and obesity. Her research has discovered that genes influence our behaviors, from how much we eat to the likelihood that we’ll stick to an exercise regimen. But does knowing that give people an excuse not to exercise? “I actually think that it’s just the opposite,” Bray says. “It’s very empowering for people to know that something physical might be the reason that exercise may be harder for them; they don’t feel weak anymore. They feel like, ‘I have something that’s working against me, but I’m going to try harder because I know I can overcome this.’ ” It’s all about personalized treatment and intervention. Understanding someone’s genetic tendencies is the first step toward designing a program that is more likely to be effective for that person, Bray says.
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Programs and research
Gifts to programs and research not only make UT better — they also help us make the world better by providing us the resources to make new discoveries, create new technologies, and share our knowledge with the world in new ways.
$1.64 billion more than 1 million gifts
The College of Communication is poised to become the nation’s leading
institution for research and teaching in new and convergent media with the announcement of a $50 million gift from the Moody Foundation. The gift supports projects throughout the college, to be renamed the Moody College of Communication, and creates the nation’s largest endowment for the study of communication at a public university.
The new William P. Clements Jr. Center for History, Strategy, and
Statecraft will train leaders in the history of national security and diplomacy, honoring the legacy of late Texas Gov. Bill Clements, who mentored a generation of such officials. The university established the center in cooperation with members of the Clements family, who have given an initial gift of $2.5 million.
Dell Medical School, which expects to welcome its first class in fall 2016,
will transform health care in Central Texas and around the world with new care options, more doctors, and groundbreaking research. The school was named following a $50 million gift from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
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New facilities for a new era
Cutting-edge teaching and research require cutting-edge facilities. Gifts from alumni and friends have helped bring UT’s faculty and students the tools they need to find creative solutions to world challenges.
$359 million 3,638 gifts
Ribbon cuttings The past year has seen the opening of three key facilities — the Belo Center for New Media, a new Liberal Arts Building, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex, which includes the Dell Computer Science Hall. On the drawing board The Cockrell School of Engineering is seeking to raise $105 million in private funds to help build the Engineering Education and Research Center and other projects. And the McCombs School of Business is raising nearly $60 million for a new building to house its growing graduate programs. The building will be called Robert B. Rowling Hall in recognition of a $25 million pledge from Dallas businessman Robert Rowling and his wife, Terry Hennersdorf Rowling, and their family. Both the EERC and Rowling Hall could open by 2017.
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Belo Center for New Media
Gates Computer Science Complex
College of Liberal Arts Building
Engineering Education and Research Center Planned Completion Date 2017
Robert B. Rowling Hall Planned Completion Date 2017
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It’s CRUNCH TIME
million
LEFT $453 TO RAISE
2013 record fundraising
in next 9 months
$640
year million
Our goal is within striking distance, but before we can claim victory
we will need one more exceptional year, an effort that dwarfs anything we have seen so far.
The good news? We’re Longhorns. Thanks to your generosity, so
far we’ve raised $2.36 billion — unprecedented for a capital campaign in the state of Texas. We could not have raised this extraordinary sum without you.
We still need you. Please give. If you’ve already given, thank you, and
please give again. You can make a gift now by calling 866-488-3927 or going to giving.utexas.edu/campaign. Your estate gift can also help us reach our goal. All we need is an estimate of the gift value. Go to giving.utexas.edu/university-insider to let us know about your gift.
Let’s make history together.
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