Giving - Division of Social Sciences, UCSD

Endowed Chairs

Help recruit and retain outstanding faculty to the division.
- The UCSD tradition of recruiting pre-eminent faculty presents a challenge in this era of reduced government support. Because only 18 percent of the University's annual operating budget currently comes from state funds, UCSD is dependent on private support to sustain the quality of its faculty. Thanks to endowed chairs, that quality is not only sustained, it is enhanced. By endowing the university with funds for research and teaching activities, chair donors allow the university to attract and retain the best educators in the world, while at the same time, furthering and encouraging important research that benefits society.
  
  In the Division of Social Sciences, chairs are endowed with a gift of $500,000 or more. Gifts of cash or appreciated stock may be used to endow chairs as well as bequests and planned gifts. Multiple-year payment schedules may be arranged to facilitate giving.
Endowed Fellowships

Help the best and brightest graduate students attend UC San Diego.
- Our graduate students are the teachers, researchers, and leaders of tomorrow. Yet it has never been more difficult for young people to make the enormous financial commitment necessary to fund a graduate education. Federal funding, a traditional source of support, has decreased steadily, while fees, especially for graduate students, have risen dramatically in recent years. Fellowship funds in the Social Sciences enable talented, dedicated students to pursue their careers and to expand our knowledge of fields that hold great promise for the future. Fellowships in the Division of Social Sciences are endowed with a gift of $250,000 or more.
  
  Fellowship funds in the Social Sciences assist not only students, but also the university. Support for promising graduate students is vital to any nationally-ranked university, as both research and teaching depend on these bright, young social scientists. Investing in them, is an important investment in the future.
The Dean's Fund

Help fund innovation and emerging opportunities.
- Gifts to the Dean's discretionary fund provide unrestricted support that enables the Division to respond to special needs and opportunities that lack other means of support. Throughout the years, social sciences deans have allocated unrestricted dollars on a greatest-need basis for key projects including fellowships, faculty awards, scholarships, faculty recruitments, student and alumni programs, classroom and laboratory equipment, library acquisitions, and public outreach events such as conferences, workshops and roundtable discussions. Gifts in any amount to the Dean's Fund are welcome.
Friends of Social Sciences

Help provide leadership annual support to the division.
- Donors who give $1,500 or more will be recognized as Friends of the Social Sciences, a community of donors who make annual leadership gifts to the Dean.s Innovation Fund. In recognition of their support, donors receive benefits such as tickets to the Economics Roundtable or Supper Club Series.