Giving Priorities
Designing for Life: Building an Expectation for Excellence that Endures
A Tradition of Growth and Impact
Each day, students and faculty at NC State’s College of Design work to develop bold solutions to challenges and problems.
Since our opening in 1948, we have built a reputation as a leading public design school with rigorous, real-world programs that prepare graduates to channel their skills into serving our unique communities. We also have built a tradition of being a community of collaborative, creative and critical thinkers.
The college proudly carries forward that tradition of growth and impact, even as its disciplines and programs shift over the decades. Our vision is to pursue excellence in design education, scholarship and engagement to empower a more just, healthy, resilient, flourishing and sustainable future.
One key to the college achieving its full potential is the growth of our unrestricted funds, which provide critical discretionary funding that the college’s leadership team can channel to strategic priority areas as needs and opportunities arise.
You can learn more about the current priority pillars for the college, and we hope you’ll join us in this important step toward the college’s future.
Learning
Your support frees students from the burden of worrying about paying for tuition, technology or materials, and from letting postgraduation debt limit their dreams.
Help our students change the world
Innovation
Private support ensures that studios and labs can support contemporary work processes tied closely to career readiness and emerging research.
Help us fuel initiatives and propel research
Faculty
Investing in faculty is investing in knowledge, collaboration and engagement of students in cutting-edge design.
Help ensure the best educators thrive here
Engagement
Designers work within communities, with stakeholders and with membership-based industry councils to design solutions to real needs.
Help us connect with communities
Support our Funds for Excellence
Gifts to unrestricted funds are vital to our college. These funds can be put to use right away and ensure our department heads and dean are well-positioned to create an exceptional education experience.
With higher education constantly evolving, each year brings unexpected needs. Supporting your preferred area of the college provides leadership the resources needed to quickly address unforeseen issues, while bolstering ongoing needs and priorities.
