Rice Annual Fund

Four reasons for the Class of 1960 to support the Rice Annual Fund, a top priority of the Centennial Campaign:

  1. Honor our Rice experiences by creating opportunities for today’s students
     One of the best ways to say thank you for our superb Rice education is to enhance student life and learning today. The Annual Fund ’s resources are put to use immediately to fuel civic engagement, scholarships, leadership initiatives, professorships, research projects, intramural sports and much more.
  2. Sustain the university’s tradition of accessibility
    We benefited from a tuition-free education, and now we can return the favor by giving to the Annual Fund. Each year, the Annual Fund’s current-use scholarships provide critical support to deserving students who otherwise may not be able to attend Rice University.
  3. Strengthen Rice’s founding commitment to “no upper limit”
    Edgar Odell Lovett, Rice ’s founding president, understood that for our students to become extraordinary leaders, they need a multifaceted educational experience that speaks as much to students’ intelligence as to their hearts, as much to intellectual discovery as to the spirit of friendship. Today, the Annual Fund is the university’s most powerful means of reaffirming and sustaining Lovett’s vision for educating students.
  4. Secure Rice’s future success …
    The success of the Annual Fund directly impacts the success of the Centennial Campaign. Annual Fund resources support the campaign’s three fundamental objectives: transforming extraordinary students into extraordinary leaders; facing challenges and generating solutions; and learning and leading locally and globally. Taken together, these objectives represent Rice’s greatest opportunity to a secure competitive advantage in its second century.

 
    
To make a multi-year pledge to the Annual Fund, please complete this form and email it to giving@rice.edu so that we may confirm your commitment.		  
 
    
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Annual Giving Societies

Parliament Society   $50,000
Sallyport Society   $25,000
Edgar Odell Lovett Society   $10,000
Brown Society   $5,000
Charter Society   $2,500
  Founder’s Society   $1,000