MIT’s priorities
MIT is a place of extraordinary interactions. It’s a setting where people and ideas come together in new ways—illuminating mysteries, making sparks fly, and fostering intellectual breakthroughs.
But these extraordinary interactions need a strong financial foundation. We will rely on the support of our alumni and friends as we work to strengthen the Institute’s work—and defend its leadership position—in four key areas:
Unrestricted giving: Simply put, an unrestricted gift is the most important contribution you can make to MIT. Unrestricted gifts help maintain the extraordinary depth and breadth of our intellectual endeavors. Just as important, they give the Institute the ability to respond quickly to emerging opportunities.
The Campaign for Students: MIT’s students — graduate and undergraduate alike — define not only what the Institute is today, but also what it can be tomorrow. And right now, MIT is focusing on what those students need most: undergraduate financial aid, graduate fellowships, new educational initiatives, and expanded student life programs and opportunities.
MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI): The scope of the world’s energy problems calls for a comprehensive portfolio of responses to environmental, economic, scientific, security, and political issues. To address problems of this scale, the work must be done on all fronts. Under MITEI, Institute researchers are fast at work on that portfolio, with an interdisciplinary plan to address energy needs in both the short- and the long-term.
Emerging projects: Innovation and experimentation are key building blocks of the MIT education. To assure students of the most exciting and effective educational experience available, the Institute needs the flexibility to be able to nurture transformative programs wherever they arise — such as at the intersection of the life sciences and engineering, where cancer research is taking place right now.
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