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University-Wide Campaign Priorities
The comprehensive Spirit of Notre Dame campaign aims to enhance nearly every facet of the University, including its colleges, schools, centers, and institutes. Yet it also addresses a range of priorities that will widely impact the entire Notre Dame community. Among those are unrestricted support, financial aid, the libraries, the performing arts, and initiatives to enhance student life.
Unrestricted Support
Unrestricted gifts to the University, such as those made through the Notre Dame Annual Fund or Sorin Society, constitute one of its most important sources of support. These gifts provide the resources and flexibility needed to fund student scholarships, purchase library materials, and renovate aging dorms, among a host of other priorities.
Financial Aid
In terms of overall dollars, financial aid is the foremost priority of the campaign, with $250 million allotted for undergraduate scholarships and another $40 million for graduate fellowships. This funding ensures that young people are able to choose Notre Dame on the basis of their talent and desire—not their finances.
Libraries
Campus libraries are the one academic resource utilized by every student and faculty scholar at Notre Dame. As such, they face the tremendous challenge of building and maintaining collections and services capable of supporting the breadth and quality of the University's myriad curricula and programs of research.
Performing Arts
The performing arts are flourishing at Notre Dame since the debut of the spectacular DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts (DPAC) in 2004. Yet bringing world-class artists to perform in DPAC is a costly enterprise. Spirit of Notre Dame will help to ensure a first-rate lineup of talent and keep ticket prices affordable, especially for students.
Student Life
Vibrant residential communities are a hallmark of Notre Dame. In the dorms, roommates become friends for life, faith is exuberantly expressed in the dorm chapels, and the intellectual conversations begun in classrooms and labs are carried on into the wee hours of the night. Generating support for dorm upkeep is thus a critical campaign goal.
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