How to Get Involved

The Wisconsin Naming Gift is another important step on a path we are traveling that will enable our school to deliver greater value for students, alumni, and the State.  The fiscal challenges faced by the State of Wisconsin, combined with the rising costs of business education, have created the need for us to think differently about how to finance educational excellence.  And all of our constituents have responded.

All of our stakeholders are playing an important role in taking our programs to a new level of excellence in spite of a difficult state funding climate.  Alumni have funded significant investments in our restructured MBA program.  Faculty and staff have parlayed those investments into a more prestigious program and developed and expanded outreach programs that bring new revenue to the school.  Undergraduate and masters students have supported higher tuition for the business major.  Last spring, 99% of our MBA students made a gift to the school upon graduation. And now, a group of generous alumni have provided the naming gift resources.

We have another important step to take on that road to excellence. We are fortunate to have an extremely large base of alumni – more than 36,000. The Wisconsin Naming Gift, combined with the investment of all alumni acting together, will have an enormous impact.

 It will: 

• Provide additional operating budget just as our Grainger Hall addition is being completed
• Finance our recent decision to move to sophomore admission at the undergraduate level 
• Recruit and retain key faculty and staff members
• Solidify progress in the MBA program
• Expand our business certificate program, making business education accessible to more students at all levels 

If every one of our more than 36,000 alumni made a $100 gift each year to the school, the impact on our budget will approximate that of the $85 million naming gift made by our generous Wisconsin Naming Partners.  If you join with the Wisconsin Naming Gift Partners by making a commitment to the annual fund every year, it will facilitate an unprecedented transformation of our business school. It is time to seize the opportunity and put the Wisconsin School of Business and its graduates among the next generation of business leaders. The impact we will have on society will be worth our collective investment.

Please consider joining the Wisconsin Naming Partners by making a gift to the Wisconsin School of Business Annual Fund.  All gifts made to the following funds will be matched:

• Make a gift to the Wisconsin School of Business Annual Fund
  
• Make a gift to the Wisconsin School of Business MBA Annual Fund
  
• Make a gift to the Wisconsin School of Business Undergraduate Annual Fund

If you would like more information about the investment priorities of the Wisconsin School of Business, please visit www.bus.wisc.edu/invest.