GIVING

$77.8M

RAISED TOWARD

The Fearless Ideas Campaign

The College of Arts and Humanities exceeded its $70 million campaign goal and has currently raised $77.8 million toward the university’s Fearless Ideas Campaign. The campaign empowers and inspires students to take on the grand challenges of our time, from poverty to racial injustice to climate change. Among this year’s impactful gifts:

Nancy H. Clarvit ’78 and Charles I. Clarvit are advancing the University of Maryland’s Arts for All initiative through a $2.25 million gift to the Department of Art. The gift will support scholarships, educational programming in the arts, research, renovated studios and a courtyard on campus. Mathematics Professor Emeritus Michael and Eugenia Brin and the Sergey Brin Family Foundation established the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies to boldly reimagine the future of education in the performing arts. The $9 million gift adds courses, expands research and funds new teaching positions, undergraduate scholarships, classroom and studio renovations, and instructional technology.

Farshid Assemi continued his support of visiting faculty member Mohammad Navid Bazargan in the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies with a $240,000 gift. Bazargan is a scholar of Persian literature, as well as a painter and a calligrapher, with full training in Iran. He also teaches community classes to the Iranian American community.