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Associate, Corporate and Securities, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, Illinois
“It was especially important to me that I donate to the school as soon as possible, because I was a merit scholarship recipient. I would like to be able to offer the same opportunity to future students.”
Endowed scholarships are currently Indiana Law’s highest priority.
On Nov. 3, 2007, the Law School publicly announced our campaign for the future. We join the Bloomington campus in this historic effort to expand scholarship opportunities for students in a climate of rising tuition and declining state support.
Our seven-year campaign, Indiana Law: Matching the Promise, began in July 2003 and will continue through Dec. 31, 2010. We have achieved great success so far. In December 2008, IU President Michael McRobbie and Dean and Val Nolan Professor of Law Lauren Robel announced an historic gift for scholarships by alumnus Michael Maurer, JD'67, and his wife Janie. The Maurers' $35 million gift is the largest in the school's history, and in honor of the gift, the Law School is now known as the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. The Maurer gift joins the Lilly Endowment's $25 million grant for faculty hiring and retention.
We started with a goal of $30 million. To date, we have raised $83.5 million, and along with the rest of the campus, we have adjusted our goal upward. We are now striving to reach $88 million by the end of 2010.
Your generosity is making a difference. The Class of 2011 is our most academically accomplished class in history. Because of increased scholarship support from private gifts, we were able to recruit a class with a median LSAT score of 164 and GPA of 3.7. We have recruited 5 experienced and entry-level faculty to join our school at a time when other schools have been forced to cut back on hiring.
Every gift counts. As we work to achieve our $88 million goal, every gift is vitally important, no matter how big or small. The State of Indiana continues to cut funding for higher education, and the school relies ever more heavily on private donations to support mission-critical programs ranging from law journals to moot court to student organizations.
The Matching the Promise campaign focuses on raising private support for endowed scholarships. Such scholarships will ensure that academically accomplished, community-minded students have access to an excellent legal education, regardless of their financial circumstances. Learn more about some of Indiana Law’s recent scholarship recipients.
The ability to recruit and retain intellectually engaged students directly impacts our visibility as a national leader among law schools. Endowed scholarship funds will attract students with the strongest potential for success. Their accomplishments as alumni will speak volumes about the quality of legal education here and improve the value of an Indiana Law degree.
Many of our alumni and friends have already taken advantage of this opportunity to give back to the next generation of students.
Your gift could enable a student to focus more on the challenge and rewards of an excellent legal education—rather than on how he or she is going to pay for it. Your gift could enable someone to take advantage of Indiana Law’s growing clinical opportunities, rather than take a second job. Your gift could reduce a student’s debt, and enable him or her to work in the public sector after graduation, thereby increasing our community’s access to justice. Your gift could transform a student’s life.
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