We welcome gifts in support of the needs of the College of Law. Named gifts may bear the donor's name or may be named to honor a spouse or other family member, a colleague, a favorite professor, a firm or other person(s) or organization(s) deserving recognition.
A Message from our Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends: It would be hard to overstate how important your private financial support is to the Law College. Private gifts have literally built the buildings in which we teach and study. Private gifts endow faculty professorships and chairs, which help us attract and keep our finest teachers. Private gifts have endowed dozens of scholarship funds here at the College, which pay out thousands of dollars annually to deserving law students. Private gifts also help us fund scores of special programs, lectures, competitions and awards, all of which contribute to the academic environment here at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
But, for all the good that is accomplished by these larger gifts, there is no substitute for a strong annual membership in the Dean's Club. The Dean's fund is critical to the day-to-day operation of the College. It permits the College to assist academic programs that have temporarily run short of cash. It helps to pay for alumni reunions and student events. It represents and promotes the Law College all across the country. And, it publicizes the accomplishments of our faculty, students, and graduates, to name just a few.
If you are an alumnus of the College, here is an additional incentive to join: having a high percentage of you identified as annual donors is one of the measures by which national publications, such as U.S. News and World Report, rank American law schools. So in a very real sense, your alumni membership in the Dean's Club is an investment that will work to increase the value of the degree you now hold.
Finally, we believe it is important to recognize everyone who supports us financially. That's why we mail out an Annual Report every fall to all 6,000+ of our alumni and friends. This report lists all donors for the prior fiscal year by Dean's Club Level, class year, and geographic location. We also maintain this information on our web site. We do this because we want you to be as proud of each other as we are of you. Our attractive Dean's Club desk weights allow you to track your years of memberships, and proudly display your continuing association with College.
The three Dean's Club Levels are listed below. While we hope you can join one of the Dean's Club Levels at this time, please remember that a gift of any amount will get your name in our annual report and increase our percentage of alumni who are annual supporters.
Thanks you for considering a donation.
Dean's Club Levels
Law College Society $1,500
Honor Member $500
Regular Member $150
General Enhancement
Student Scholarship Fund
A scholarship fund can be endowed in the donor's name at the College of Law to provide scholarships for deserving students. The named scholarship will be listed in the College of Law Bulletin which is mailed to all prospective students (approximately 7,500 each year). Recipients will be informed of the source of their scholarship. Minimum donation for named scholarship fund: $10,000.
Library Fund
A library fund will be endowed in the donor's name at the College of Law to provide funds for the Schmid Law Library in the donor's name. A bookplate with the donor's name will be placed in each book purchased from the fund. Minimum donation for named library fund: $10,000.
Professional Skills Education Fund
An endowed fund will be established in the donor's name at the College of Law to enhance those elements of the College's curriculum relating to professional skills, such as legal writing, trial advocacy, client counseling, negotiations and clinical education. Minimum donation for named professional skills education fund: $10,000.
Faculty Professional Development Fund
An endowed fund will be established in the donor's name at the College of Law to assist members of the faculty to enhance their activities in teaching and research by providing support for such items as books, equipment, travel and summer support. Minimum donation for named faculty professional development fund: $10,000.
Student Activities Fund
An endowed fund will be established in the donor's name at the College of Law to provide annual income to support student co-curricular activities such as the Student Bar Association, the Moot Court Board, The Nebraska Transcript and other student organizations. Minimum donation for named student activities fund: $10,000.
Dean's Discretionary Fund
An endowed fund will be established in the donor's name at the College of Law to provide annual income to be used by the Dean to address the greatest needs of the College of Law. Minimum donation for named Dean's discretionary fund: $10,000.
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Special Gift Opportunities
Lectureship Fund
An endowed fund will be established in the donor's name to provide distinguished speakers to the College of Law. Each lecture would receive extensive publicity among students, faculty, the practicing bar and the public-at-large. Minimum donation for named lectureship fund: $50,000.
Named Professorship
An endowed fund will be established in the donor's name to recognize a faculty member who has attained significant recognition. The income from the fund will provide a stipend above the faculty member's salary, may provide support for research activities, and will allow the faculty member to use the title: "[Donor's Name] Professor of [Discipline of recipient or specification of donor]," for example, the Roscoe Pound Professor of Legal Ethics. Minimum donation for named professorship: $350,000 - $500,000.
Trial Advocacy Program
An endowed fund will be established in the donor's name to support the teaching of Trial Advocacy at the College of Law. Minimum donation required for naming this program: $250,000.
Distinguished Visiting Professorship
An endowed fund will be established to provide funds to permit the College of Law to attract on a regular basis a distinguished professor from another law school to teach for a semester or a year at the College. Minimum donation for named visiting professorship: $1,500,000.
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If you are interested in receiving more information about named gift opportunities or talking about other possible gift opportunities in your particular area of interest at the College of Law, contact:
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To protect the privacy of our alumni and donors, the general policy of the Law College is not to release alumni information to anyone outside the Law College, the University, and the University of Nebraska Foundation.
The Law College does not sell or release information for personal or commercial purposes.
The Law College does:
- Publish documents periodically which contain limited information, such as annual donor reports and alumni directories.
- Share information on individual classes with designated class agents, but only when the information is to be used to assist the Law College, the University, or the University of Nebraska Foundation.
- Share information with Law College alumni so that they may refer clients to other Law College alumni.
- Share information with current law students who are seeking employment.
Inquiries about this policy should be directed to the Dean of the Law College.
