Thanks to the generosity of members of College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dean’s Advisory Council, more NSM donors will have the opportunity to endow a scholarship.

Endowing a scholarship once required a minimum of $25,000 paid within three years. Now, donors can start the process with just $1,000 and take as many years as they need to build up the fund to $25,000 – at which time it will officially become an endowed scholarship.

While donors are building their endowments little by little, their gifts are added to the advisory board’s growth fund, and the interest earned will be allocated to the college’s most urgent priorities. The growth fund was established with $25,000 donated by advisory board members.

Once a donor has reached $25,000, the money is transferred from the growth fund and becomes an endowed scholarship, providing annual assistance to a deserving NSM student.