A gift to the the Chancellor's Annual Fund, the Great People Scholarship or one of our school/college annual funds are top priorities and will help the university address its most urgent needs.
The generosity of alumni and friends has played a defining role in the ability of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy to deliver one of the best professional pharmacy educations and to maintain one of the top scientific research programs in the country.
The School’s continuing success will be defined by its ability to support our students and compete with peer institutions in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Your gifts will help keep the doors to a professional pharmacy education open to students from all socio-economic backgrounds and ensure that the school can continue to attract and retain top graduate students and faculty. Gifts will also allow the School to find creative ways to meet students’ and faculty’s changing academic and professional needs. To ensure this bright future, the School is seeking gifts in the following priority areas:
Annual unrestricted gifts to the Annual Fund move the School forward by providing a base of flexible funds to respond to challenges and opportunities that make the greatest impact. These needs change from year to year—sometimes from month to month—and this moving target of need and opportunity make unrestricted giving essential for the School’s success.
A strong faculty increases the caliber of education, research and expertise available at the University of Wisconsin and to the community. The School of Pharmacy is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a world-class faculty is in an increasingly competitive environment. The Pharmacy Forward Fund helps ensure the School can offer competitive salaries and a solid research infrastructure.
Gifts to the Pharmacy Forward Fund for Faculty Excellence will significantly strengthen the School’s ability to recruit and retain world-class educators, researchers, and scholars.
Graduate students are the inspirational core upon which a research university flourishes. These highly motivated students collaborate with faculty on groundbreaking research in the pharmaceutical, social, and clinical sciences of pharmacy. As teaching assistants, they also add breadth and depth to classroom and laboratory experiences for the PharmD students.
These are tomorrow’s faculty members, research scientists, professionals, and leaders. Gifts to the Graduate Student Excellence Fund will ensure that the School has the ability to compete for the most talented candidates into the future.
The School embraces its responsibility to educate tomorrow’s pharmacy workforce. Tuition for in-state students, however, has almost reached $14,000 a year and is expected to increase. The cost can be prohibitive for all but higher-income families, leaving historically under-represented groups, including students from city centers and rural areas, unable to afford a UW-Madison education.
Gifts to support need-based scholarships will ensure broader access for all students and will strengthen and diversify the pharmacy workforce of the future.
As the School raises its standards for academic and scientific programs, it also needs to continually improve and enhance facilities, equipment, and infrastructure. The School plans to relocate and consolidate its administrative offices, upgrade and remodel laboratory and student study spaces, purchase critical teaching and research equipment, and make environmental and aesthetic enhancements in and around Rennebohm Hall.
Gifts designated for buildings, equipment, or infrastructure improvements will ensure that up-to-date facilities are available to support all aspects of the School’s academic mission.
To prepare for a strong future, the School must build a base of permanent support for targeted research and educational programs that emerge in response to the rapid changes taking place in today’s scientific and health-care marketplace. Gifts to build these endowments are an investment in the faculty’s expertise to improve the health and well being of people everywhere. The School’s special program initiatives include:
