Endowment Giving Is Important
A strong working endowment is fundamental to the advancement and success of an institution of higher education. It enables Arkansas State University to accomplish its greatest priorities, namely:
- Recruiting and challenging students
- Attracting and retaining prominent, well-respected faculty
- Supporting original and significant research and creative achievement
- Providing operation funds for new and innovative curriculum and academic programs
- Enhancing the campus experience
- Raising the profile and reputation of the University
The Future of the Arkansas State University Endowment
Each endowment fund at ASU has a personal, unique story behind it – a passion, a dream, a sense of gratitude, a desire to give back. Each of the donors has had a vision for the future of ASU. Over the past century their gifts have transformed the University and, through it, the lives and dreams of its students. New endowment gifts are needed now to continue that transformation as ASU enters its second century of leadership and service in higher education.
Giving to the Arkansas State University Endowment
Giving to the ASU endowment provides the opportunity to change lives of students and scholars and to create a permanent legacy honoring or memorializing the life and work of an individual or organization. Within the ASU endowment are hundreds of named endowment funds that are pooled together for investment purposes but administered individually to ensure the purposes defined by the donor are accomplished in perpetuity.
