Giving to the Computer Science Department

Show your support now! All gifts make a difference in upholding our past legacy, preserving our present excellence, and reaching out to future generations:

You may contribute, in the following ways, depending on your personal preference:

Contribute on-line to the Computer Science Annual Fund. When you click on the "Contribute Online" button, you will be directed to the University of Illinois Foundation's secure Online Giving site for your personal and credit card information.
Contribute by phone. Please contact Safiya Noble, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, at 217-265-6823. She would also be happy to discuss with you arrangements for endowed giving, gifts of security or property, or deferred gifts.

Matching Gifts

Many companies will match donations. See University of Illinois Foundation Matching Gifts for a listing of over 7500 companies which will match your gift to Computer Science.

Why give?

To honor our past, preserve our present excellence, extend our outreach to future generations.

Now, more than ever, we depend on the alumni and friends of the Department of Computer Science. The economic climate in which the department operates has changed dramatically since the year 2000. Government funding, which once covered 80% of our budget, now provides only 20% of our funding. In order to continue to flourish as one of the top computer science departments in the country, we depend on the generosity of our alumni and friends. Your gifts, large or small, enable us to uphold our distinguished past, maintain excellent educational and research opportunities for our current students and faculty, and cultivate our outreach to future generations.

Your gift to the Computer Science Annual Fund, helps

To Serve Our Students:

By endowing student scholarships, awards, and fellowships.
By supporting students who wish to travel domestically and abroad for enriching educational conferences
By enabling the department to support programs that build a cohesive community of students such as our Engineer-in-Residence program
By supporting outreach efforts to attract and retain talented women and minority students in computer science

To Serve Our Faculty:

By enabling faculty to pursue path-breaking research that preserves our position as a one of the country's premier computer science departments
By supporting faculty as they develop innovative programs that transcend the boundaries separating computer science from humanistic disciplines and that bring together art, music, culture, and computer science
By supporting our named chairs, professorships, and faculty awards

To Serve Our Future Generations:

By funding outreach efforts to our K-12 communities that open up the doors to children to explore the world of computer science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
By assisting outreach efforts to attract the best and the brightest high school students to matriculate at U of I
By strengthening the work of faculty, students, and research facilities that address global and national security issues.

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