The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan surpassed its five-year Campaign for Michigan fund-raising goal of $110 million on
April 3.

Calling the success of the campaign "unprecedented," LSA Dean Edie N. Goldenberg said that to the best of her knowledge "no other public liberal arts college has ever met so large a fund-raising goal" and that the College was "extremely grateful to the numerous individuals, foundations and corporations who have made gifts, large and small, to the campaign."

The total raised as of April 7 was $110,306,393. More than 54,000 individuals contributed $71 million to the LSA campaign, and 1,078 corporations and private organizations contributed $12.3 million. More than 420 foundations contributed $26.7 million.

"Gifts from the faculty also have been an important element in our successful campaign," Goldenberg added. "Faculty contributed not only through the Faculty Fund ($600,000) but they have contributed nearly $8 million in gifts and bequest intentions. A generous faculty gift also will endow the Frederick and Lois Gehring Chair in Mathematics."

The gifts will support undergraduate education and LSA's wide-ranging Undergraduate Initiative, which seeks to enhance the undergraduate experience. The funds will support, among many other things:

• Endowed scholarships ($8.5 million) and off-campus study awards ($800,000) for undergraduates and graduate student fellowships ($9 million).

• At least 20 new professorships.

• Tisch Hall, the new humanities building, named in honor of alumnus Preston Robert Tisch, who made a gift of $6 million.

• The new Gayle Morris Sweetland Writing Center (nearly $5 million), named for the late editor and publisher of U. Magazine.

• Priceless artifact preservation efforts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

• Outreach activities such as the Department of Psychology's Detroit Initiative and the Saturday Morning Physics Program.

• The development of multimedia tools in the humanities through a gift from Time Warner Inc.