The Columbia Campaign for Undergraduate Education is an unprecedented $865 million effort that supports undergraduate students and faculty. Inspired by alumni commitment, it is the largest campaign of its kind in Columbia history.

Totaling nearly one-quarter of the University's $4 billion campaign goal, this is an undertaking on an audacious scale, one proportional with the level of commitment shown by College alumni and Columbia's prospects for the future.

While a University-wide campaign inspires large gifts, it also serves to galvanize annual giving. Annual gifts from undergraduate alumni have grown significantly in recent years (in the case of the College Fund, by 38% between 2002 and 2006) and represent a vital source of immediately available year-to-year support.

In our ambitious campaign to fund undergraduate priorities, every gift counts.

Find out more at the Columbia Campaign for Undergraduate Education Web site.

Campaign Highlights

• Twenty-five faculty chair endowments raised by June 30, 2008, marking halfway to the campaign goal of 50 chairs
• Two-thirds of the way toward the campaign goal of $400 million for endowed financial aid
• More than halfway to the campaign goal of unrestricted Annual Fund support, allowing the College to continue to improve and enhance services and programs for students while raising endowed funds during the campaign
• Student, faculty and program initiatives that include an enhanced Center for Career Education and an improved Center for Student Advising
• Dedication of more than 10 percent of the Campaign goal to current-use, unrestricted funds allowing the College to best meet current needs