Charting Our Course Capital Campaign: CEHD Funding Priorities

The vision of the CEHD is to become a top-tier national metropolitan college of education. We want to be the school of choice for educators who want to gain knowledge that will enable them to inform and support educational reform particularly among urban schools and diverse student populations. We also aspire to be leaders in the state in developing best practices for addressing health issues of school-aged children and adolescents.

To reach these goals and those of the University's 2020 plan, and to help the CEHD become the leader in preparing students to excel academically and professionally, we will need to:

• Establish 10 endowed chairs of $2 million each to help us successfully recruit the nation's best and brightest in: educational sciences, STEM education, early childhood education, literacy education, special education, urban education, health promotion and prevention sciences. Amount needed: $20 million.
• Develop a Kentucky Education Leadership Institute. The institute will build upon its success with the Kentucky Principals Academy to create a professional development institute for all educational leaders, including superintendents, principals and other administrators. Amount needed: $5 million.
• Expand initiative to establish professional development schools with a clinical fellows program to advance the work of providing a clinical training model that will serve teachers at all stages of their careers, and enhance K-12 education. Amount needed: $5 million.
• Construct a new CEHD building on Belknap Campus. Amount needed: $10 million.
• Construct a new building for the Department of Health and Sport Sciences. Amount needed: $10 million.
• Support the planetarium in becoming a model for visualization research. The mission of the Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium is to be an education research facility that studies how the brain processes visually complex information. Scientists can produce data in a visual format by creating visualizations that enhance understanding of complex STEM material. Using the planetarium's immersive technology, researchers can investigate the power of scientific visualizations. Amount needed: $14 million.
• Develop a Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Science that will establish school-based best practices in health and physical activity, community based health promotion opportunities and university-based health management in the workplace which would be transferable to the corporate workplace. What is needed to accomplish these goals: state-of-the art research and wellness education facility; endowed professor(s) in the areas of school health, community nutrition and health-related psychometrics; funding for a comprehensive service program that supports the Kentucky Corporate Health Management Initiative.
• Grow the Early Learning Campus (ELC). It is a child development center and a service to Scholar House residents and UofL faculty and staff, but cannot survive on earned income alone. To support the kind of programs that will greatly benefit the children and help fund research in early childhood education, donations will be needed. Amount needed: $15 million.
• Create endowed fellowships to support doctoral candidates. Amount needed: $5 million.

Ways to Give to the CEHD

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!

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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