Some of the major gifts include the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine Building the Huntsman Mental Health Institute naming and research support Ken Garff Red Zone Gardner Commons - the Carolyn and Kem Gardner Building Kahlert Village student housing the Craig H. More than half of the total - $1.65 billion - is dedicated to health sciences while another $773 million will fund projects on main campus and $427 million supports community engagement efforts. The “Imagine New Heights” campaign brought in nine of the 10 largest gifts ever given to the university. When you see that come together, it’s like a birthday every day. “You get to match people’s dreams with these incredible needs that can impact lives, whether it be lives via research or lives via students, or the lives of faculty members. alum to ascend to the presidency in 50 years, said he deeply enjoys fundraising. For some reason I get to take the credit, but I didn’t do the major lifting here,” Randall said. “I do need to thank those presidents for doing the bulk of this. Its initial $2 billion goal was a step up from the previous “Together We Reach” campaign, which raised $1.65 billion from 2005 to 2014.
The campaign began in 2014 and spanned the terms of former University of Utah presidents David Pershing and Ruth Watkins. I think that’s what you see in this amazing campaign,” he said. One of Randall’s earlier-announced goals is that the University of Utah become “a top 10 public university with unsurpassed societal impact.”Īs his presidency got underway in the fall of 2021, Randall discovered “there was actually one metric that we were already top 10 and that’s alumni giving. The record $3 billion in giving may be unprecedented, but University of Utah alumni have long been generous in giving back to their alma mater, Randall said. University officials also attribute the new milestone in giving to the state’s strong economy and growing population. That was the great year of Zoom concerts and things like that, but still wasn’t quite the same as being in person,” he said. “I think the other really big thing that kept pieces of our campuses alive is massive donations to the arts, because as you know, it was a little difficult to convene. When social distance guidelines made it impossible for large groups to gather on campus for performances, concerts or gallery strolls, one might assume that giving to the arts would suffer as a consequence. During that time, we started a program called the Hope Corps, which was actually internships for students who would go out and solve community needs during the COVID crisis. “One of the large grants we got was to support students who were not going to have internships. Others contributed to help support COVID-19 testing efforts, research tied to the coronavirus and to support businesses. Instead of charitable giving contracting during the COVID-19 pandemic, many donors viewed philanthropy as an opportunity to help address pressing needs, such as making sure students’ educations were not disrupted, Randall said in an earlier interview. That was followed by a light show/video projected on the historic Park Building, named for the University of Utah’s first president, John R. What’s amazing is, 147,000-plus specific donors, and over a third of those actually gave to student scholarships,” Randall told the Deseret News in an interview prior to Saturday’s event.įestivities included talks from students who are scholarship recipients, remarks by Randall and Vice President of University Advancement Heidi Woodbury, and the university marching band playing the U. Those gifts range from $10 to well over $110 million. campus to celebrate the milestone and express gratitude for their contributions during festivities held in a tent erected on Presidents Circle.
Saturday night, the university invited donors and other distinguished Utahns to a gathering on the U. Not only only did the giving exceed the goal, “it blew right past it,” he said. “I want to say thank you,” Randall told the audience, fighting back emotion. Perhaps more remarkable is that the giving window overlapped the pandemic, which disrupted life worldwide. The university’s just-concluded “Imagine New Heights” giving campaign raised $3 billion, outstripping the planned goal of $2 billion. If you’re University of Utah President Taylor Randall, you host an event that is part social hour and part tent revival capped with an impressive video/light show to celebrate the record amounts of giving to the state’s flagship university over the past eight years. How do you say thank you for $3 billion in charitable giving?
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