To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Chancellor Richard Herman" <chancellor@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Campus launches $1.5 billion campaign

Dear Members of the Illinois Faculty and Staff,

Last Friday we announced the "Brilliant Futures" campaign with the goal of
raising $1.5 billion for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
part of a $2.25 billion University campaign. That's an ambitious goal, but
it's for a great cause: you and your students. 

We have built campaign goals on the programs and initiatives articulated in
the Strategic Plan, so every dollar raised in this effort will allow us to
move closer to our goal of national pre-eminence. Our plan is to raise
$525,000 million for support of research and programs, $300,000 million for
chairs and professorships, $175 million for scholarships, $135 million for
fellowships, and $365,000 million to enhance your work environment (e.g.,
facilities, equipment, library materials).

In the quiet phase of our campaign, which ran from July 1, 2003 through May
31, 2007, we raised $800 million or 53.3% of our campus goal. Those
contributions were made because our alumni and friends believe in the
importance of the work you are doing. They feel strongly, as do I, that you
are changing the world. They contribute because they want to play a role in
our success.

The next five years will be critical to our shared legacy. 

The sole goal of the campaign is to build the support you need to do the
bold, innovative, creative work for which Illinois faculty and staff are
known. But we won't succeed without everyone's help. To build excitement
about investing in Illinois, it is critical that each of us takes every
opportunity to share our enthusiasm for this amazing institution. By
reinforcing your belief in Illinois with your constituents, you are helping
build their interest and enthusiasm to partner with and support your
achievements. 

We all are members of the Advancement team, and knowing that makes me
supremely confident in our ability to recognize our goal of national
pre-eminence. 

I look forward to working together to share many successes.

Warmly,


Richard Herman
Chancellor
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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