The Campaign for Maryland Brief, Great Expectations, University of Maryland

Campaign Update

Expanding Global Impact
The impact of Great Expectations, The Campaign for Maryland will be felt around the world. Growing support for new centers and programs is enabling Maryland faculty and students to share their expertise and experience to influence change at home and abroad. Gifts large and small are sustaining the campaign’s momentum and ensuring that undergraduate and graduate students have the resources they need and opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom. In October the campaign total reached $664,006,420 and continues to climb with ongoing support from alumni and friends.

Major Gifts, Major Impact

NFL Star Funds Off-field Passion

Former Terp football star Madieu Williams ‘03 took to heart his mother’s example of working hard and giving back to the community, whether that community was their native Sierra Leone or Prince George’s County, where they emigrated when he was 9. Now 28, the successful NFL player recently funded the creation of a center at Maryland to address health issues in both places. Read more >>

Securing Faculty Competitive with the Best

New Director’s Broad Background an Asset to Institute

Yoram Peri, former political adviser to late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, brings a wealth of meaningful resources and experience to Maryland as the first official director of the university’s Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies. Read more >>

Helping Students Reach for the Stars

Grad Students get Assist to Finish Line

Harriet Presser, the distinguished university professor who developed the nation’s first graduate course in gender, work and family, is furthering her legacy at Maryland by supporting doctoral students shaping the future of sociology. Read more >>

Professor Gives Undergraduates Gift of Research

Nearly 50 years after a small grant allowed Frank R. Gouin to conduct an experiment on the rooting of a rhododendron, the professor emeritus is giving horticulture students the same kind of opportunities to explore undergraduate research. Read more >>

Scholarship Invites D.C. Students to Maryland

When Charles and Kathleen Rumfola, both MBA ’92, put their children in day care, they realized that many of the teachers were working full-time and straining to attend school at night. Three years later those memories are the impetus behind their efforts to create a scholarship for Washington, D.C., students. Read more >>