Giving is a very personal and individual decision and can be matched to your personal values, wishes and aspirations. Support an academic outreach event, leave a sizable endowment gift in your will or support a student scholarship – it is up to you! The giving ideas listed can be implemented as a new fund or with additional funds added to pre-existing funds to expand their impact.
Support the future of computer sciences in the Southwest!
The new UTCS home, Dell Computer Science Hall, is a crucial component in our strategy to maintain the vibrancy, innovation and relevance of our research and educational missions. The capital campaign was kicked off by a generous gift from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. The $132 million funding goals are as follows:
Press release: http://www.utsystem.edu/news/2006/UTS-MSDFGrant05-15-06.htm
If you are interested in the capital campaign, please contact UTCS Chair, J Strother Moore at moore@cs.utexas.edu.
Support collaborative programs linking industry and UTCS talent for mutual benefit and long-term economic security through research and recruiting collaborations.
Invest in faculty support as a powerful recruitment and retention tool ensuring superior teaching and research talent.
Inspirational faculty are the strength of academic/research units and top faculty seek out institutions where they can peer with leading researchers and educators, work in state-of-the-art facilities and reach their professional goals. UTCS faculty have earned significant honors http://www.cs.utexas.edu/oea/services/media_relations/utcs_spotlights/
In order to maintain this high level of talent, UTCS must offer competitive packages and incentives to compete against other top-ten universities.
Current Endowment Minimum Funding Levels
Current faculty support:
Support landmark research in a variety of computing disciplines as the future of computer sciences unfolds.
UTCS research support can be given as an endowment, an outright gift to a professor or research area or as sponsored research through the UT Office of Sponsored Projects (http://www.utexas.edu/research/osp/).
UT’s Office of Technology Commercialization (http://www.otc.utexas.edu/) can assist with taking innovations to market.
Invest in creating a culture of excellence by recruiting and retaining the best and brightest talent in the field.
Competitive fellowships make the difference in whether UTCS or another university captures the best graduate talent. Graduate students play many critical roles including research investigators who push limits with new ideas and challenges, research managers who run labs and oversee experiments and serve as educational liaisons and mentors between professors and undergraduate students.
Current graduate student support (additional opportunities posted on the Graduate Programs & Fellowships bulletin board in Taylor Hall):
Support students as they grow into the future by solving tomorrow’s challenges today!
Adequate student funding ensures solid recruitment, retention and support of tomorrow’s leaders, regardless of financial circumstances. Be a part of producing a computing workforce trained to apply computing principles to solve ever-changing problems - not just routine programming skills that are easily off shored, but imaginers, innovators, risk-takers, problem solvers, and designers to hone tomorrow’s world and ensure Texas a worthy legacy.
Current undergraduate student support:
Grant funded opportunities allow UTCS to significantly expand its quality and reach.
UTCS continually scans the grant horizon for possible matches of various grants and our research or programs including outreach programs. Current grants include the Clare Booth Luce Professorship, a program of the Henry Luce Foundation:
http://oea.cs.utexas.edu/articles/index2005/luce_boothe.html and http://www.hluce.org/4cbldefm.html
Foster student success in an intellectually and scientifically enriched environment by supporting student organizations, scholars programs, student research and funding to recruit and retain underrepresented populations.
Support department outreach efforts and receive high visibility billing in sponsored publications and events.
| Sponsorship Opportunity | Suggested Amount |
| Publications: | |
| UTCS Newsletter (3 – 4 issues annually to targeted audience) | $2500 |
| UTCS Annual Report (to targeted audience) | $2500 |
| Events: | |
| TGIF- Monthly mixer with faculty, graduate students and staff | $500 |
| GradFest: The Prospective Graduate Student Open House | $5000 |
| UTCS Scholarship Recognition Event (for donors and students) | $2500 |
| Visions Seminar (faculty recognition event) | $2500 |
| UTCS Commencement Event | $2500 |
| Turings Recruitment Lunch at Explore UT | $2500 |
| Women in Computer Sciences (WICS) Events | $1500 |
| UT Kinetoscopic Wonderment Film Festival and Screening Event (campus-wide) | $500 |
| UTCS Roadshow (recruiting high school students) | $2000 |
| Grace Hopper Conference (women in computing outreach) | $7500 |
Support computer sciences growth for tomorrow and beyond by leaving legacy funding.
Smart philanthropy can advance great causes while minimizing tax burdens and maximizing current income and future inheritances to heirs. There are many mutually beneficial options available for retirement and estate planning that afford flexibility, customization, legacy and make good financial sense.
What better way to honor a computer scientist, technology leader or loved one than with an E-Tribute or gift to a memorial fund?
Personalize your gift to a memorial fund or on-line tribute in memory of a loved one or in honor of family, friends, teachers, colleagues or milestones and then share it with family and friends around the world.
Protect the value of your degree by supporting the people and programs that make UTCS great!
Support University endeavors through payroll deduction or outright gifts to your areas of interest.
Charitable contributions to UT can be made using payroll deduction accessible on UT Direct. Payroll deduction for a gift made by the 15th of the month will begin the following month. Payroll deduction for a gift made after the 15th of the month will begin on the second month's paycheck. Deductions for gifts will be reflected in your Payroll Earnings Statement under "Charitable Contributions."
Instructions for Using Payroll Deduction
1) Log on to UT Direct: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/index.WBX. Type in your EID and password.
2) On the right side of the page, scroll down to "Personal Info" and click on the "Giving to UT" link. The page for making gifts to UT through payroll deduction will appear.
3) Choose any UT area that you would like to support. If there is a department option for that college, school, or unit, choose that as well. If you want your gift to go to UTCS, you must select it in the menu and type it in the text box for it to be transferred correctly.
4) If you wish to make a gift to a special area or a memorial gift, note it in the text box in Section 2.
5) Choose any amount for your gift. You can make your gift for one month or choose to have it deducted from your paycheck for up to 24 months.
6) Confirm your contact information, which is provided by the employee directory.
7) Click on "Submit."
Leave a lasting legacy in a name of your choice.
Naming and title opportunities may be available for facilities, events, programs, endowments and scholarship. Please contact UTCS to further discuss an interest in naming opportunities.
Support an investment in non-monetary needs (equipment, products, technology, collections).
Join past non-monetary supporters including Intel, IBM, HP, Cisco, IBM, Sun Microsystems and AMD ensure UTCS has the best equipment and products to support our work.
We stand ready to assist you with information, discussion or initiation of a gift or collaborative effort.
Contact Nancy P. Hatchett :
Office of External Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences
1 University Station, C0500
Austin, TX 78712-0233
Office: 512-471-9793 Email: nph@cs.utexas.edu
