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SU releases final report on billion-dollar campaign

The Campaign for Syracuse University released its final report Monday, revealing that the fundraising effort brought in $1,044,352,779 during the last seven years.

The campaign was developed in 2005 by Chancellor Nancy Cantor and the Board of Trustees with the purpose of raising funds to improve access to education for students of all financial backgrounds and to improve the quality of the faculty and university as a whole.

The goal of the campaign was to raise a billion dollars by the end of 2012 in five areas: student access and support, faculty excellence, cross connections, building futures and annual support.

Last September, university officials held an event on the Quad to announce the campaign had raised $1,008,612,731 as of Aug. 31, but would continue to fundraise until the end of the year. The campaign is the university’s largest fundraising effort to date.

In September, three of the five categories had still not reached their goal: student access and support, faculty excellence and building futures.



Of those three categories, only building futures failed to meet its goal in the final report, raising $171,206,320 of its $225 million goal, according to the campaign’s website.

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