The generosity of alumni, parents and friends of CS@VT allows us to fund many special activities in the department. The budget cuts over the past 5 years have resulted in the department not having sufficient funds to flourish and grow to world-class stature, a goal we aim to achieve.

In the past, we have concentrated on building a departmental scholarship fund, the Investment in Excellence Scholarship fund first endowed in 2007. Today, through the tireless stewardship of Ms. Libby Bradford, Director of External Relations for CS@VT, this fund generates about $7,000 annually for scholarships. We also have special named scholarships, including the George Gorsline Scholarship, the Anne & George Gorsline Scholarship, the Griffith-Strader Christian Scholarship and the CGI Scholarship (see http://www.cs.vt.edu/undergraduate/scholarships for more details). We would welcome your contributions in support for any of these fine scholarship funds. Please see our scholarship donation page for more information.

However, in order to achieve our goal of ranking among the top 10% of CS departments in the US, we need additional funds to attract outstanding graduate students (e.g., fellowships), to retain outstanding faculty members active in cutting edge research, to maintain state-of-the-art research facilities and to encourage exploration of high risk, high payoff research ideas. We need to start an endowment for CS@VT that will support these goals, and eventually grow into support for endowed faculty fellowships and named chairs.

With your help, together we will accomplish these goals. We are embarking on a fundraising campaign to establish an endowment for our department. Of course, we welcome your financial support at any level. Nevertheless, we urge you to consider a 5 year pledge of a gift at the $300, $600, or $1200 level annually. Such gifts will be acknowledged publicly on our CS@VT Benefactors wall in McBryde 106.

How to Give to the Department of Computer Science

We ask you to specify the Department of Computer Science as the recipient of your gift. To ensure this happens when you use the online gift form, in the section entitled "Gift Information" please select "Other Designation" and type "Computer Science Departmental Programs - 875766."

You can securely make a pledge, make a payment on an existing pledge, make a gift using your credit card, or request information on donating securities, making a planned gift or using electronic funds transfer from your checking account, via the online pledge form.

Many employers will match donations from employees. To see if your employer will match your donation, please see the Matching Gifts page.

When you make a donation, please send e-mail to donations@cs.vt.edu to notify us of your gift.  We would like to promptly acknowledge your gift!