Fund-raising fever spread over the weekend as Yale University officially kicked off a $3-billion campaign, scheduled to conclude in 2011.
Richard C. Levin, Yale’s president, said that the campaign would help transform the university “from a local to a regional to a national to an international university,” according a news release.
Yale officials began the quiet phase of the campaign two years ago and have raised about 43 percent of the total, according to the Yale Daily News.
Columbia University announced a new campaign last Friday, with a goal of raising $4-billion (The Chronicle, September 29). It would be the largest ever in higher education. The University of Virginia kicked off a $3-billion drive over the weekend as well.
