The Case for Giving to CCSU
CCSU is poised for an exciting future. After three years of intense work, we have developed a new strategic plan aimed at ensuring Central's place as one of the finest public universities in the state for decades to come. The heart of our enterprise remains, as always, providing for the academic success of our students. To keep that mission relevant in a rapidly changing world, we are launching new programs to increase our engagement with the community; to expand our international educational opportunities; to strengthen our interdisciplinary and cross-curricular initiatives; and to make our educational experience even more responsive to state workforce and economic development needs.
We hope you will join us in this bold new mission. By supporting CCSU you not only make our students' success possible, you expand the meaning of their success to include our community, state, and world. When our students succeed, we all benefit.
Your gift provides:
• Increased financial aid and scholarships
• Academic programs responsive to workforce needs
• Educational opportunities in the community, region, world
And this expands the meaning of success:
- Improved retention and graduation rates
- Lower rates of graduate indebtedness
- Wider access to a university education
- Graduates prepared to make a significant difference in the state and the world
- Greater economic impact of the University in the region and the state
- Highly prepared workforce in such critical areas as teaching, engineering, nursing, biotechnology, international business
- Wide and diverse programs enriching and sustaining the community
- Deeper and wider tax base
- Better informed public and legislative programs
- New homegrown leaders for Connecticut
