News: Alumni Engagement

Author, activist, and alum Dennis McBride on how classmates and allies established one of the city’s first LGBTQ organizations — the Gay Academic Union.
Through his extensive fundraising efforts, Lyle Rivera laid the foundation for ºÚÁÏÍø to rise as an educational institution and cultural center.
ºÚÁÏÍø Special Collections workshop helps families collect oral histories, memorabilia, and records to pass down through the generations.
The College of Fine Arts advising director on the high value of arts degrees, quiet spaces, and being a late bloomer.

Piotr Tomasik, a computer science graduate and serial entrepreneur, is driving a local tech renaissance one internship — and startup — at a time through new ºÚÁÏÍø program.
ºÚÁÏÍø student and 'Survivor' contestant David Jelinsky returns to campus with lessons learned from his reality show appearance.

Go-getter Charles Weber found academic and professional development opportunities through MGM scholarship program at ºÚÁÏÍø.
With the value of community impressed upon him at the School of Integrated Health Sciences, Nikkita Crozier builds career with U.S. Public Health Service.

William T. and Brianne M. Sykes donate $60,000 to William S. Boyd School of Law pre-law program in honor of Justice Michael L. Douglas.

The philanthropist and her family bet on ºÚÁÏÍø's success with contributions to help establish the campus, build the Thomas & Mack Center, and advance the law school.

Faculty/staff donations to the annual holiday card tree fund have been providing scholarships for over 50 years.

After founding an investment firm, Randy Garcia has generously (and gratefully) invested in his alma mater.