Unrestricted gifts are crucial to advancing the vision of the College of Engineering because they provide the dean with the flexibility to capitalize on opportunities and act as a buffer to short-term funding challenges. Each donor lets the college or individual department decide how best to use their gift.
There are two kinds of unrestricted support:
"Unrestricted gifts provide us with the flexibility to direct resources where they are most needed, when they are needed - be it an opportunity to hire a top-notch faculty member, recruit a student, provide matching funds for a grant, or send our winning student SAE Formula race team to Australia for an international competition."
Larry Benefield, Dean
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.