The University of San Diego Thursday announced a major fundraising campaign with a $300 million goal.
Leading Change: The Campaign for USD, will focus on capital projects, scholarships, program and faculty support, and the endowment, according to USD President James Harris III. The campaign was described as the most ambitious in the school’s 67-year history.
“USD is a community on an adventurous mission of light and enlightenment,” Harris said.
“Our university began, quite literally, with little more than a hope and a prayer,” Harris said. “Less than 70 years later, USD is the youngest institution to be ranked among the nation’s top 100 doctoral universities by U.S. News &World Report.”
According to USD, a quiet phase of the campaign has resulted in funding for the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering; the Betty and Bob Beyster Institute for Nursing Research, Advanced Practice, and Simulation; a baseball stadium, and a center for military veterans, among other things.
Some of the goals for the public phase of the campaign include $76.85 million for the School of Business Administration, $41 million for the engineering school, $35 million for the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, $31 million for the School of Law, $31.8 million for Torero athletics, $26.95 million for the College of Arts and Sciences, and $22 million for campus-wide scholarships.
–City News Service
