RELEASE ON RECEIPT IT'S NOT WHAT YOU GIVE, BUT THAT YOU GIVE A-SCHOOLS' FACULTY/STAFF CAMPAIGN PERFECT MODEL OF U.VA.'S INTERNAL FUNDRAISING PLAN CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 7 -- The University of Virginia's School of Architecture's faculty/staff campaign, with its 100 percent participation rate, is a perfect model of what U.Va. hopes to achieve in its internal fundraising. Part of the seven-year Campaign for the University, each school or department set its own faculty/staff campaign priorities, working toward a high rate of participation rather than a specific dollar amount. The goal of the A-School's faculty/staff campaign, which ran from May 15 to Sept. 15, was to support the creation of a memorial scholarship honoring Joseph Bosserman, a former architecture dean and professor. All 71 full-time architecture faculty and staff members contributed to that cause with gifts ranging from $5 to $25,000. The total raised to date is $110,000, which will go toward the endowment's $500,000 goal for the Joseph Norwood Bosserman Fellowship Fund. "We would not have achieved such a level of participation if the campaign had not been in memory of Joe and in support of student scholarship, the number one priority of our faculty and staff," said Robert Lasher, director of development and alumni relations in the architecture school. "Over time, we hope that additional gifts from alumni and friends will increase the fund to a level sufficient to support eight to 12 students a year with substantial fellowships," he said. University Architect Samuel A. "Pete" Anderson III, who co-chaired the school's campaign with former dean Harry Porter, said, "Joe built Campbell Hall, and he built what has become the best faculty in the country. What could be more appropriate now than for us to build a new endowment in his name that will complete his vision by funding generous fellowships to attract the best students in the country." Top candidates in the school's four departments -- architecture, landscape architecture, architectural history and environmental planning -- will benefit annually from these $5,000 to $10,000, merit-based fellowships, beginning the year 2000. The fund will also help recruit the best students to attend U.Va., enhancing the school's competitiveness. U.Va. set 40 percent as the target participation rate for its faculty/staff campaigns. The goal seemed lofty when compared with national figures that were about half that, said Senior Vice President Ernest H. Ern. What the campaigns have accomplished so far, however, greatly exceeds the initial goal, he said. In addition to the A-School, the School of Nursing had an 88 percent participation rate in its internal campaign, which ran from April to November 1996, and has raised $184,149 to date. Last week, the school unveiled a plaque in the lobby of McLeod Hall to recognize participants who gave to one or more of its campaign goals: a staff-supported educational assistance scholarship for first-year nursing students, the annual fund, the dean's discretionary fund, faculty research and a variety of other projects as identified by individual donors. A committee of nursing faculty and staff volunteers, led by co-chairs Sharon Utz and Doris Glick, organized the school's campaign. U.Va.'s remaining faculty/staff campaigns will conclude this fall. But employees can continue to give until the University's overall campaign, which officially kicked off Oct. 7, 1995, ends June 30, 2000. A common initiative of all the faculty/staff campaigns is a scholarship for the children of U.Va. employees. The University will match, dollar for dollar, up to $100,000 contributed for the need-based, undergraduate scholarship for children of U.Va. employees, President John T. Casteen III announced last March. Noting that many other colleges have long offered tuition relief to employees' children, Casteen said this new scholarship program "begins to address the deficiency in the way the University has historically been funded." It also "helps assure the opportunity is there for those who have grown up in this community." University employees have already contributed $17,500 and pledged $3,025. The University has matched employees' cash gifts and will match the pledges once they are paid. As of Sept. 1, the fund had reached $45,000. The number of awards will depend on the amount of money raised, with the first to be available when the endowment reaches $50,000. The earliest possible date an award will be made to a daughter or son of a U.Va. employee is fall 1998. The scholarship, the idea of a classified staff member, is a University-wide goal of the Faculty and Staff Campaign, a component of the $750 million Campaign for the University. ### October 6, 1997 For more information, contact Bob Lasher (804) 982-2761, Sharon Utz (804) 924-0081 or Doris Glick (804) 924-0105. Television reporters, should contact our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550. RELEASE ON RECEIPT IT'S NOT WHAT YOU GIVE, BUT THAT YOU GIVE A-SCHOOLS' FACULTY/STAFF CAMPAIGN PERFECT MODEL OF U.VA.'S INTERNAL FUNDRAISING PLAN CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 7 -- The University of Virginia's School of Architecture's faculty/staff campaign, with its 100 percent participation rate, is a perfect model of what U.Va. hopes to achieve in its internal fundraising. Part of the seven-year Campaign for the University, each school or department set its own faculty/staff campaign priorities, working toward a high rate of participation rather than a specific dollar amount. The goal of the A-School's faculty/staff campaign, which ran from May 15 to Sept. 15, was to support the creation of a memorial scholarship honoring Joseph Bosserman, a former architecture dean and professor. All 71 full-time architecture faculty and staff members contributed to that cause with gifts ranging from $5 to $25,000. The total raised to date is $110,000, which will go toward the endowment's $500,000 goal for the Joseph Norwood Bosserman Fellowship Fund. "We would not have achieved such a level of participation if the campaign had not been in memory of Joe and in support of student scholarship, the number one priority of our faculty and staff," said Robert Lasher, director of development and alumni relations in the architecture school. "Over time, we hope that additional gifts from alumni and friends will increase the fund to a level sufficient to support eight to 12 students a year with substantial fellowships," he said. University Architect Samuel A. "Pete" Anderson III, who co-chaired the school's campaign with former dean Harry Porter, said, "Joe built Campbell Hall, and he built what has become the best faculty in the country. What could be more appropriate now than for us to build a new endowment in his name that will complete his vision by funding generous fellowships to attract the OVER best students in the country." Top candidates in the school's four departments -- architecture, landscape architecture, architectural history and environmental planning -- will benefit annually from these $5,000 to $10,000, merit-based fellowships, beginning the year 2000. The fund will also help recruit the best students to attend U.Va., enhancing the school's competitiveness. U.Va. set 40 percent as the target participation rate for its faculty/staff campaigns. The goal seemed lofty when compared with national figures that were about half that, said Senior Vice President Ernest H. Ern. What the campaigns have accomplished so far, however, greatly exceeds the initial goal, he said. In addition to the A-School, the School of Nursing had an 88 percent participation rate in its internal campaign, which ran from April to November 1996, and has raised $184,149 to date. Last week, the school unveiled a plaque in the lobby of McLeod Hall to recognize participants who gave to one or more of its campaign goals: a staff-supported educational assistance scholarship for first-year nursing students, the annual fund, the dean's discretionary fund, faculty research and a variety of other projects as identified by individual donors. A committee of nursing faculty and staff volunteers, led by co-chairs Sharon Utz and Doris Glick, organized the school's campaign. U.Va.'s remaining faculty/staff campaigns will conclude this fall. But employees can continue to give until the University's overall campaign, which officially kicked off Oct. 7, 1995, ends June 30, 2000. A common initiative of all the faculty/staff campaigns is a scholarship for the children of U.Va. employees. The University will match, dollar for dollar, up to $100,000 contributed for the need-based, undergraduate scholarship for children of U.Va. employees, President John T. Casteen III announced last March. Noting that many other colleges have long offered tuition relief to employees' children, Casteen said this new scholarship program "begins to address the deficiency in the way the OVER University has historically been funded." It also "helps assure the opportunity is there for those who have grown up in this community." University employees have already contributed $17,500 and pledged $3,025. The University has matched employees' cash gifts and will match the pledges once they are paid. As of Sept. 1, the fund had reached $45,000. The number of awards will depend on the amount of money raised, with the first to be available when the endowment reaches $50,000. The earliest possible date an award will be made to a daughter or son of a U.Va. employee is fall 1998. The scholarship, the idea of a classified staff member, is a University-wide goal of the Faculty and Staff Campaign, a component of the $750 million Campaign for the University. ### October 6, 1997 For more information, contact Bob Lasher (804) 982-2761, Sharon Utz (804) 924-0081 or Doris Glick (804) 924-0105. Television reporters, should contact our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.