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 - corrected copy:  Campus launches $1.5 billion camp

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 million for support of research and programs, $300 million for chairs 
and professorships, $175 million for scholarships, $135 million for 
fellowships, and $365 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 over $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
ChancellorThis mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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