The Weatherhead School of Management's strategic plan outlines our academic priorities and our development objectives reflect them.
Named Scholarships
The strongest, most resilient promise to our students, and the most attractive promise to prospective employers, is to graduate students who demonstrate superior abilities and skills. Find out more about creating a named scholarship to encourage top quality students to attend the Weatherhead School.
Strengthen the Core
Strengthening the core requires that we stress fundamentals in our research and teaching in marketing, accounting and finance. These are the curricular areas that have great appeal to students and potential employers. World-class faculty hires are necessary in all three disciplines, as are further development of courses, curriculum and majors.
Supporting the Core
Enables Weatherhead to recruit and hire outstanding faculty and maintain its competative advantage in marketing, accounting and finance.
Capital Contributions
The Weatherhead School is comprised of three learning centers, the landmark Peter B. Lewis Building, the magnificently restored Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Hall, and executive education's George S. Dively Building. We need the ability to upgrade these facilities to continue to provide quailitiy learning environments.
Other giving opportunities
Interested in other giving opportunities? Learn about how to support the Weatherhead School through naming opportunities, contributions to faculty scholarship and research, student scholarships, or other programs.
If you are interested in establishing an endowment fund or would like further information, please contact:
Melissa A. Santee
Executive Director of External Relations
216.368.6192
Donors establish endowment funds in three ways:
A gift while living
A life income gift
A gift in one's will
The life income gift produces income for a donor-designated beneficiary over his or her lifetime or a term of years. At maturity, the life income gift is converted to a named endowment fund.
The value of the university's endowment funds are constantly changing. Income is earned, additional gifts are made, the value of assets appreciate over time, and income is spent for donor-designated purposes.
The university's Board of Trustees is responsible for the investment of the university's endowment funds. Investment responsibilities include: the development and implementation of investment strategies, the allocation of assets to these strategies, the selection of investment managers and the monitoring of performance. Although the Trustees are firm believers of investment diversification to reduce risk, they favor investments in stocks, which have the greatest potential for long-term growth.
Establish an endowment fund
Establishing an endowment fund at the Weatherhead School of Management is a permanent, lasting way to remember a particular phase of your education that influenced your life while supporting your school. Endowment funds also are meaningful ways to honor or memorialize family members and friends. These funds are donated assets held by the university in perpetuity and invested to generate income to be spent for purposes designated by the donors.
Specialized Opportunities
If you would like to customize your contribution beyond what is noted in our website or otherwise, please contact Senior Director of Development, Melissa Santee at 216.368.6192.
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