Alumni Services: Honor Roll

School of Law Annual Giving

Each year, gifts to the USD School of Law play a critical role in helping the school maintain high standards of excellence in its programs and activities. Gifts from you and other donors are essential in maintaining a world class law school; those gifts support cutting edge programs and academic initiatives, recruiting and retaining a world-class faculty, increasing support for scholarships, assisting student clubs and organizations, as well as supporting technology enhancements and the Legal Research Center. Your generous commitment is essential in our efforts to provide our students with the best legal education possible.

As an alumnus and president of the Law Alumni Board for academic year 2007-2008, I am proud to extend the gratitude of the law school and our students to you who supported our mission. Your continued support provides an important component in attracting and retaining the best faculty and brightest students. Your gifts help us to continue to improve the school’s facilities, resources and funding.

Last year our generous supporters provided $2,325,708 in cash gifts and another $1,171,927 in grants and contracts. These gifts allowed us to increase our endowment while creating and enhancing our scholarship and financial aid offerings that help future and current students manage the financial constraints of a legal education. Your support provided funding for our new Energy Policy Initiatives Center and the initial funding for the Center on Education Policy and Law. Your generosity strengthened USD’s Clinical Education Program, which is recognized as one of the most extensive and successful in the nation.

You supported the work of the Children’s Advocacy Institute, which is dedicated to the health and well-being of California’s children. Your gifts helped deliver conferences on critical issues to USD students, alumni and our legal and local communities. As you can see, philanthropy has a profound impact on nearly every aspect of our law school.

Thank you to everyone who has made a contribution to strengthen our law school. Your generosity strengthens the financial foundation of the school for current and future students, and increases the value of a USD law degree.

Thank you for your generous support of the USD School of Law.

Sincerely,

Jeffery T. Thomas ’82
Law Alumni Board Development Committee Chair
2007-2008 President, Law Alumni Board of Director