The Golden Anniversary
Campaign for Florida Tech

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Funding opportunities remaining in the Golden Anniversary Campaign for Florida Tech are of all descriptions, shapes and sizes—from an entire building to athletics field lighting.

All colleges seek named professorships and chairs of excellence. Also welcome are endowed fellowships for undergraduate and graduate studies.

Below are several other possibilities. For more information, contact Beverly Sanders, senior director of development, at (321) 674-6155 or sandersb@fit.edu.

College of Business

Funding for a new building and naming opportunity

Gifts for the “Fund for Excellence” to support non-operating needs

College of Psychology and Liberal Arts

Funding for a new building and naming opportunity

College of Aeronautics

Emil Buehler Center for Aviation Training and Research

Naming opportunities for rooms, or “name a wing”

Naming opportunities for new aircraft

College of Science

Funding and naming a biomedical building

College of Engineering

Naming opportunities for Harris Center for Science and Engineering

Naming opportunities for conference rooms, laboratories

Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts

Naming opportunities for rooms, or “name a wing”

Scott Center for Autism Treatment

Naming opportunities for rooms, or “name a wing”

Athletics

New boathouse at the Florida Tech anchorage

For athletics fields:

Lighting, lockers, concession area, restrooms

Endowment for coaches’ and assistant coaches’ salaries

Naming opportunity for swimming pool and diving well

General Campus

Naming opportunities for two covered bridges

Alumni Giving: A Statistical Look

Top Class Years for Campaign Donations

What class years are doing the most for the Golden Anniversary Campaign for Florida Tech? Rebecca Caldwell, assistant director of advancement services, crunched some numbers and came up with a list of the top classes of alumni givers.

Counting surviving class members, the top 10 giving years (number of alumni donors, not dollar amounts) between 2004 and 2008, are shown at right.

Caldwell also found that of all campaign donors, 40.5 percent are alumni, or 4,477 alumni out of a total 11,065 donors.

If you’re a curious alumnus and want to know how your class is doing, here is the entire list, 1962–2008: