UMass Dartmouth's continued success depends on a tangible commitment of alumni and friends like you. Today, tax dollars support less than one third of the university's operating budget. Private support directly enhances UMass Dartmouth's ability to help students become not simply graduates, but leaders; for faculty to develop innovative approaches to teaching; to advance intellectual discourse and the formation of new knowledge that benefits society; and finally, to promote the ideal of equal access to information that is at the heart of our education system and democratic society.

Why should you join this campaign?

To make a difference?

Your investment in the Claire T. Carney Library is an investment in people and in ideas that make a real difference in our world.

To preserve an architecturally unique community resource

Your gift enables UMass Dartmouth to transform the library into a showplace of learning and discovery for the 21st century, serving the needs of the campus and community.

To attract exceptional students

Your gift finances improvements that make this library the intellectual heart of the campus and the community.

To preserve the quality of faculty

Your gift assists in the recruitment and retention of the brightest mentors and most accomplished scholars.

To enhance the curriculum

Your gift sustains the needs of new programs and innovations in teaching and learning.

To maintain the infrastructure

Your gift supports building additions, repairs, upgrades and improvements to the library.

To compensate for declining state support

Your gift provides more of the funds needed to cover the library�s improvement costs.

To set an example

Your gift sets an example for other alumni and friends and increases the likelihood that foundations and corporations, who use donor participation as a measuring stick, will fund the library�s programs.

To support the Claire T. Carney Library campaign mission

Your support will help transform the intellectual heart of the campus.

Gifts of all amounts are important

We have created special naming opportunities for gifts of $1000 and above.