Education
LEADING CHANGE
USD Raised $317 Million. And Change.
L
eading Change: The Campaign for USD was the
University of San Diego’s most ambitious comprehensive
campaign, raising more than $317 million for more than
80 programs, projects and initiatives.
The Leading Change Campaign increased financial aid
for students, enhanced resources for faculty and program support,
expanded and developed instructional, residential, and athletic facilities,
and ensured a more robust, sustaining endowment, to serve its
students today and for years to come.
The campaign generated nearly $36 million in scholarship funds,
establishing 233 new scholarships, 100 of which were for the School
of Law. The campaign also made it possible to open the Shiley-Marcos
School of Engineering and name the Belanich Engineering Center.
Progress was made toward a long-awaited new facility for the School
of Business. The Betty and Bob Beyster Institute for Nursing Research,
Advanced Practice, and Simulation was constructed. And Fowler Park,
a magnificent baseball stadium, as well as the soon-to-be-renovated
Skip and Cindy Hogan Tennis Center were also delivered.
USD built a new campus quad, the Paseo de Colachis. It enhanced
the effectiveness of the Frances Harpst Center for Catholic Thought
and Culture, and catapulted the Karen and Tom Mulvaney Center for
Community, Awareness, and Social Action to the forefront of student
community service-learning.
Thanks to the campaign, and its 105,023 donors, a new Campus
Ministry Center is under construction and the Fletcher Jones Math Lab
explores the wonders of mathematics in new ways. Benefactors made
possible the new Humanities
Center and increased the
scope and the reward of
USD’s annual international
entrepreneurial pitch
competition.
The Leading Change
Campaign raised the University
of San Diego’s profile and
reputation, and it became the
world-class university it was
destined to be.
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Belanich
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