University of Illinois Foundation: News

• U of I, Foundation raise record-setting $2.43 billion in campaign
  5/24/2012
  The University of Illinois closed out its most ambitious fundraising campaign ever with gifts, commitments and pledges of nearly $2.43 billion for the Brilliant Futures Campaign. That is $179.6 million (8 percent) more than the announced goal of $2.25 billion; the campaign ran from July 1, 2003, through Dec. 31, 2011.
• University of Illinois President Michael J. Hogan resigns
  3/22/2012
  On Friday, March 23, the Executive Committee of the Board will meet to approve the terms of Hogan's resignation and to appoint Robert Easter, a long-time faculty member and former interim provost and interim chancellor on the Urbana-Champaign campus, as president-designate.
• FMC Technologies Educational Fund has Lasting Legacy
  3/14/2012
  When Bert A. Gayman graduated from the University of Illinois in 1897a mere 30 years after the founding of the Universityhe may not have known the mark he would leave with an anonymous gift he would make more than six decades later.
• $6M gift commitment from the Chez Family Foundation Toward Creating a Center for Wounded Veterans
  2/13/2012
  The University of Illinois announced plans to build a Center that will provide educationally integrated services to student veterans of recent conflicts who have sustained severe and multiple injuries.
• Micek to step down as UIF head in December 2012
  1/9/2012
  Dr. Sidney S. Micek, president of the University of Illinois Foundation for the last 12 years, announced today (Jan. 9, 2012) that he is stepping down as the fundraising organizations chief administrator.