Division of Development and Alumni Relations

Delivering on the Promise:
Capital Campaign Builds a Stronger Carolina

Investing in the promise of this great University and securing Carolina’s future success form the core goals of “Carolina’s Promise,” the University of South Carolina’s historic – and ambitious - Capital Campaign.

The public phase of the eight-year Carolina’s Promise campaign kicked off November 11, 2011 in Columbia, SC. The Campaign, which strives to raise an unprecedented $1 billion by 2015, will help:

• increase much-needed student scholarships, fellowships and financial aid,
• accelerate discoveries and technology transfer via faculty research,
• support an increase in the recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty,
• make Carolina more competitive with peer universities by improving academic facilities, technologies and living-learning environments for students,
• strengthen the health of individuals and communities in South Carolina and beyond, and
• secure Carolina’s future by building our endowment and making it competitive with other SEC schools

Q&A Regarding the Carolina’s Promise Campaign

Why are Capital Campaigns important?

Capital campaigns are important because they allow us to rally around a clearly defined vision for the university. They establish a timeframe for giving, a sense of urgency, and most importantly, a focused goal.

Carolina’s Promise gives our diverse University family – spread throughout eight campuses and around the world – the opportunity to join together and be part of something special and historic. The partnerships built, the promising work supported, the investments we’ll make in the promise of our students and future will forever change the face of Carolina.

What does the Carolina’s Promise Campaign hope to accomplish?

The name of the Campaign says it all. Carolina’s Promise means that we must invest well in the success of our students, for they truly represent the best promise of tomorrow. Carolina’s Promise also means that the University has made a commitment – or promise - to students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and the communities we serve that we will continue to lead the way to improve the quality of life for all in our state and world.

Regarding specific goals, Carolina’s Promise will raise much-needed funding for undergraduate, graduate and professional student scholarships, for promising faculty research and excellence in teaching, for innovative, relevant programs that will help solve some of society’s biggest issues, and for creating a modern, state-of-the-art learning and living environment through facilities and technologies that ensures our students’ success.

President Pastides has said, “the promise of Carolina includes teaching our largest student population ever, launching this unprecedented capital campaign and inspiring a better way of life in South Carolina and beyond through intellectual curiosity, sound science and the pursuit of economic prosperity.”

Learn more about the needs and priorities for the Campaign, so that you can champion the promise of Carolina.

How much have we raised so far toward the $1 billion goal?

When we launched the public phase of the Carolina’s Promise campaign on November 11, 2011, we had raised more than $500 million in gifts and pledges toward the $1 billion goal.

Add your gift today!