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What Is An Endowment

An endowment is a fund that is invested to benefit an institution over the long term. Only a small percentage of the endowment is paid out each year, allowing the principal to remain intact and grow over time. The UCSB Foundation invests its endowments in a diversified fund administered by the UC Regents to provide growth and stability, with a 5% payout rate based on a 60-month average. The Foundation manages hundreds of endowments that support academic programs at UCSB, including several endowed professorships in the Department of Chemical Engineering, with goals of establishing more faculty chairs, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate scholarships.

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What Is An Endowment

An endowment is a fund that is invested to benefit an institution over the long term. Only a small percentage of the endowment is paid out each year, allowing the principal to remain intact and grow over time. The UCSB Foundation invests its endowments in a diversified fund administered by the UC Regents to provide growth and stability, with a 5% payout rate based on a 60-month average. The Foundation manages hundreds of endowments that support academic programs at UCSB, including several endowed professorships in the Department of Chemical Engineering, with goals of establishing more faculty chairs, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate scholarships.

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Just What Is an Educational Endowment? How Does It Operate?

An endowment is a fund managed for the benefit of an institution (such as UCSB), with
the stipulation that it be invested with only a fractional amount paid out each year for a
designated purpose while the remaining fund principal remains intact. This allows for the
donation to have a much greater and longer term impact than if it were spent all at once.
Generally, the endowment payout rate is a set percentage (which the funds fiduciary may
vary depending upon market performance) so that the fund will grow over time, keeping
pace with inflation.
The UCSB Foundation currently invests its endowment assets in the General Endowment
Pool (GEP), a diversified fund administered by the Treasurers Office of The UC Regents
to provide both growth of principal and long-term stability. The payout rate is 5% of a
60-month rolling average of GEP share value.
The UCSB Foundation manages hundreds of endowments for the benefit of academic,
administrative, athletic, and other programs on this campus. Four Department faculty
(Doyle, Fredrickson, Leal, and Tyrell) presently hold endowed professorships, all
established by private donors at the $500,000-1,000,000 level. The Robert G. Rinker
Laboratory Endowment will be the first designed to support a Department teaching
facility. Future goals are to establish additional endowed faculty chairs, fellowships for
graduate students, and scholarships for needy undergraduate students. In these three
areas, the Department is still not competitive with older, longer established chemical
engineering programs.
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