Auburn University announced its $1 billion “Because this is Auburn” campaign on Saturday, April 18.
Auburn has raised more than $775 million in support of the campaign, according to an article on the University’s website.
The goals of the campaign are to create scholarships, endow more than 100 new chairs and professorships for educators and researchers, develop new programs, build new facilities and improve existing facilities.
$252 million will go to student support, $80.8 million will go to faculty support, $488.1 million will go to program support and $178.2 million will go to facility support.
The campaign is expected to end in 2017.
The University also announced it received a donation of $57 million, the largest in the school’s history, from 1957 Auburn graduates John and Rosemary Brown.
The donation will fund a new performing arts center and a student achievement center in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
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