VIA: Lead On Goal 2
Strengthen the Endowment
Recommended Actions
- Enhance education and communication across the TCU community on the purposes, uses and mechanics of the endowment
- Advancement and endowment leaders should update the Cabinet, Provost Council, Faculty Senate, Staff Assembly and Student Government once a year
- Leverage the university鈥檚 web presence with updated materials and easier access
- Educate students and parents on how the endowment provides them with access to high quality education and opportunity
- Increase funding for philanthropy to support research, scholarship and creative activities
- Increase the number of endowed faculty positions, including setting a goal campus-wide for the optimum percentage of faculty on endowed lines
- Continue to attract a wider pool of trustees and donors, nationally and internationally, in line with the growing reputation and global aspirations of TCU
- Increase endowed scholarship support to create a more ethnically, socio-economically, and geographically diverse student population that better prepares all students to relate to the global community in their lives and careers
- Increase awareness of and access to funding for student participation in Study Abroad and other opportunities to enhance cultural and global awareness
- Increase awareness of and access to funding for student participation in unpaid or low paying internships
- Increase funding for an integrated student-success model, inclusive of academic advising, career services and disability services
- Develop more vehicles to tell the story of endowed scholarships changing student鈥檚 lives through opportunity and access to quality education
- Educate the community on the nature of endowed positions
- Increase recognition and spotlight on the institution鈥檚 鈥渃elebrity鈥� faculty and staff