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ALUMNI FUND
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UCD is competing with other Irish universities to
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Studying at UCD can be expensive and
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daunting for many students
Government funding today accounts for just 50% of
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the university’s income and there has been a steady
decline in state funding coupled with a huge increase
in student numbers
THE UCD ALUMNI FUND
ENCOURAGING EXCELLENCE – SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS
HE PRIMARY aim of the UCD Alumni Fund is to to update them on news from UCD and to ask for a gift to the
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support students and enhance the quality of their fund (see picture 1, above). With over 120,000 UCD graduates
academic, social, sporting and cultural experience. worldwide, we want to ensure that everyone has the
Generations of UCD graduates have made significant opportunity to support UCD.
contributions to Irish and international life in the We want to give students the very best university experience
fields of business, sport, science, arts and human possible. Their health, well-being and education are of the
sciences. We want to ensure this great tradition continues by utmost importance to us.
supporting innovative students and their projects. We are also committed to upholding and enhancing UCD’s
Universities in the UK and USA have an established tradition reputation as a leading educational institution and fulfilling
of asking their alumni to make a gift each year to their alma the university’s vision, which is the delivery of a holistic
mater. The goal is to establish a lifelong relationship with undergraduate experience, maintaining our position as the
alumni to foster the culture of ‘giving back’ to the place where leader in fourth-level education and being a distinctly Irish
hopefully they had the best time of their lives and gained an university with global impact.
excellent education. Ongoing support is essential for UCD also With this in mind, the trustees of the Alumni Fund identified
to ensure that future generations of students can have a similar areas of significant need within the university and supported
experience. the following projects:
Donations from graduates are the Alumni Fund’s primary UIforward New ERA Arts Scholarships – The New ERA programme
source of income, so we run telephone campaigns twice a year encourages and facilitates increased participation in higher
in the spring and autumn. UCD students telephone graduates education by students, who for a variety of economic and social
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