Alumni and Giving

Alumni News and Events

Stay connected to the CEHD through alumni news and events. We always like to hear from you! Please send us a note about any awards, career or outstanding personal accomplishments that we can include in our magazine, newsletter or on the website.

Giving to the College of Education and Human Development

The CEHD has experience great growth and development, and we are proud of our role in meeting the goals established by the university's Challenge for Excellence. These are just a few of the accomplishments the CEHD has achieved during the Challenge:

• US News & World Report ranked the CEHD among the top 100 graduate schools in Education in the country. The only Kentucky school to receive this honor.
• The Ashland Inc. Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education is among more than 121 endowed chairs created during the Challenge

• The number of CEHD doctoral graduates has grown nearly 500 percent since the beginning of the Challenge, which helped the university surpass its goal of graduating 140 doctoral candidates a year by 2008

The CEHD could not continue to become such valuable partner in the university and community without the support of our alumni and friends. Find out how gifts to the CEHD have made a difference!

Ways to Give to the CEHD

Planned gifts provide donors with excellent benefits. The benefits may include life income, future continued use of gift property, an avoidance of capital gains tax and immediate income tax deduction. Some planned gifts, such as bequests, provide primarily gift and estate tax savings.

Participation is key to the success of annual gifts, not necessarily the amount given. Annual gifts of all sizes are needed and range from $5 to $10,000 a year. Annual support by alumni is particularly important since many companies base their support to U of L on the number of alumni who give to their alma mater.

Endowments guarantee that a gift lives in perpetuity. U of L spends 5.5 percent of an endowed fund's market value annually, reinvesting the remainder of its capital growth income and thus increasing the value of the fund. Each year the endowed account grows, providing more funds to support scholarship, professorships, building funds or other areas specified by the donor. Endowed gifts typically start at $10,000-$25,000 for endowed scholarships or $1 million for endowed chairs.

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