Oakland University offers select naming opportunities to honor special people or organizations. Naming programs provide significant support to the university, allowing Oakland to continue to build academic excellence. These programs also provide a strong bond between the university and the individual or organization, creating a long-lasting partnership and building a legacy.
Naming opportunities may be endowments for scholarships or professorships. They also can provide special academic funds to support faculty research or support construction or furnishing of an academic building.
Through naming opportunities, donors can honor an important person or organization in a significant way. The Board of Trustees must approve all naming gifts.
Buildings
Donors who wish to honor a person or organization may inquire about opportunities to name wings, floors or entire buildings as well as classrooms, laboratories or offices.
Endowments
Friends of the university may recognize individuals or organizations through named endowments for scholarships, professorships or buildings.
In an endowment, the principal from contributions to endowed programs is invested by the university and remains intact. The annual income is then used for funding. The minimum amount to establish endowments, except for scholarships, is $25,000, which is payable over five years. Endowed scholarships require payment of one-half of a full year of tuition.
College, Schools, Departments and Deanships
Oakland University will accept gifts to name colleges, schools, departments and deanships when those gifts will help take the university to a new level of excellence.