Forever UND
The Campaign for the University of North Dakota.
Together, we embark on a $500 million comprehensive fundraising campaign to build a University of North Dakota for the future: a future where people are empowered to make a difference and where the torch of knowledge is passed on to those who will lead the way.
The comprehensive campaign, guided by collaborative input from UND leadership and stakeholders, and the UND LEADS strategic plan, is focused on fundraising for four important areas. Forever UND: The Campaign for the University of North Dakota supports capital projects, student scholarships, faculty & research, and programs & priority needs.
Capital Projects
Goal: $175 million
Drive down University Avenue, and you’ll see a campus transforming around you. As the Nistler College of Business & Public Administration continues to celebrate the completion of its new building, more new projects lie on the horizon. When you have great faculty and great students, you must have great facilities in which to teach and learn.
Student Scholarships
Goal: $125 million
We believe that an outstanding, affordable education should be attainable for every student. Today’s students are battling tuition challenges and a rapidly rising cost of living – both attributing factors in the steady decline of nationwide undergraduate enrollment. At UND, however, we have managed to buck that trend, growing enrollment by 2% in fall 2023. The key? Increasing scholarship offerings to recruit and retain students.
Faculty & Research
Goal: $120 million
One chair or professor can touch the lives of many through the courses they teach, the students they mentor or simply through their academic work. Endowed faculty give students the opportunity to work alongside the most talented scholars and researchers to solve global grand challenges. By increasing endowed faculty positions, we are able to recruit and retain faculty, which ultimately enhances student learning.
Programs & Priority Needs
Goal: $80 million
Individual colleges, departments and centers make our University unique, and their needs may shift from year to year. By supporting programs and priority needs, we ensure our students have access to ideal experiential learning opportunities to equip them for the future.
Campaign FAQ
- Creates a sense of urgency.
- Impacts almost every area of the university.
- Counts all dollars from private sources.
- Educates about the importance of philanthropic support.
- Deliberately links giving to the university’s strategic plan.
- Unites alumni, friends, and the campus community around a shared goal.
Dan and Jolene Mikkelson of Grand Forks have made a $5 million gift to fund scholarships at their alma mater, the University of North Dakota. The gift will fund student scholarships.
The Norman & Ann Hoffman Family Foundation makes a large STEM gift that honors years of passionate UND support from Norman Hoffman, ’59.
Lori (Barsness) Maurer’s roots run deep at the University of North Dakota. Ten years ago, she created a scholarship to benefit UND student-athletes and recently renewed her gift as the account grew.
Dr. Robert A. Kyle, ’48, made his first gift to the University of North Dakota in April 1962 and 62 years later he remains one of the longest living benefactors in the University's history.
Alumni in Legacy Society contribute early to their testamentary endowments to see immediate impact.