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Giving Day 2023: People, Knowledge and Culture

Giving Day is your chance to make YOUR IMPACT on YOUR UNIVERSITY!

This year, we have organized Giving Day in accordance with the Tech 2030 Strategic Framework centered around:

PEOPLE: We hold as our top priority the development of human potential through supporting the learning goals of our students and the professional goals of our faculty and staff. 

KNOWLEDGE: Research, scholarships and academics at Louisiana Tech engage faculty, students and external partners in collaborative and entrepreneurial efforts to generate and disseminate knowledge and foster innovation that make a difference in our region and around the world.

CULTURE: Louisiana Tech is a resilient campus community offering facilities and systems in physical, administrative, social and cultural environments that are conductive to all aspects of learning and discovery and responsive to changing technologies, educational paradigms and the populations we employ and serve.



Participating Groups:
PEOPLE KNOWLEDGE CULTURE
2
Match
COES Dean's Match
Additional $5,000 to COES Excellence
$1,225 MATCHED
Ended
2
Match
Good Nutrition Mission Food Pantry Match
Shannon Copes Boyer (1976 Tech Alumna) will match dollar-for-dollar up to $2,500 for gifts toward the Tech Food Pantry.
$100 MATCHED
Ended
2
Match
Innovation Enterprise Match
Danny & Queenie Ross (The Ross Family Fund) will match up to $500.00 to support the Louisiana Tech Innovation Enterprise. Danny (a 1966 graduate) was involved in a similar facility being created at Georgia Tech which resulted in thousands of jobs being created for the engineering graduates of the school and establishing Georgia as a major technology hub in the south. This Center could transform the I-20 Corridor of Louisiana, creating new industries and technology jobs for the region.
$0 MATCHED
Ended
2
Match
College of Applied and Natural Sciences Excellence Fund
Dr. Jan Allen (1973 Tech grad), in honor of her mother - a 1951 Tech Alumna Mary Evans Allen will match dollar-for-dollar any gift made toward the Giving Day match on Giving Day 2023 up to $1,000.
$1,000 MATCHED
Completed
$1,000
Dean's Discretionary Challenge to Liberal Arts
The Dean's Discretionary Fund allows the College of Liberal Arts to respond to emerging needs and gives Dean Karl Puljak the versatility to direct funds towards the 7 distinct school’s most pressing needs each year. Contributions to the Dean's Discretionary Fund directly impact students' educational experience both inside and outside of the classroom by providing necessary equipment, technology, and experiences that enrich program learning.
$1,000 / $1,000 Raised
Completed
Leaderboard
Tech 2030: Leaderboard
Tech 2030: Leaderboard
Rank Department Raised
1 PEOPLE $1,276,416.44
2 KNOWLEDGE $55,617.88
3 CULTURE $5,946.00
Ended
2
Match
Business Excellence Match
$2,500 to Business Excellence
$1,250 MATCHED
Ended
2
Match
Parkinson's Resource Center Match
1991 Tech graduate Brandon Ewing and his wife Susan (1991 grad) will match dollar-for-dollar up to $250 towards the Parkinson's Resource Center, a resource initiative in the College of Applied and Sciences.
$0 MATCHED
Ended
2
Match
Electrical Engineering Advisory Board Challenge
The Electrical Engineering Advisory Board is helping the Electrical Engineering program toward the purchase of 18 power supplies for the new circuits lab. The board will match every gift toward this goal dollar-for-dollar up to $4,400.
$100 MATCHED
Ended
2
Match
ASCE Students: Concrete Canoe Nationals!
Your gift can help to send the Louisiana Tech American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter to the national concrete canoe competition in Wisconsin this summer! Dr. Elizabeth Matthews will generously match every dollar given on Giving Day to the ASCE Student Chapter up to $1,000.
$1,000 MATCHED
Completed
$1,000
Education Excellence Challenge
Once $1,000 in gifts has been reached in this challenge, Betty Lou Robertson will give $1,000 to the COE Excellence Fund. This fund is used across all 3 disciplines (Kinesiology, Psychology and Behavioral Services and Curriculum, Instruction & Leadership), within the College for: professional development for faculty and students; replacement and the maintenance of innovative equipment that is required to stay relevant within the profession.
$1,000 / $1,000 Raised
Completed
Leaderboard
Department Leaderboard!
Friendly competition: Which group will raise the most?
Rank Department Raised
1 Athletics $1,271,082.50
2 College of Applied and Natural Sciences $15,635.00
3 College of Education $14,523.94
4 College of Business $12,423.94
5 College of Engineering and Science $6,935.00
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Let's Color Bulldog nation Loyal Blue!
Rank State Gifts
1 LA 471
2 TX 138
3 AR 15
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