UTM will host its fifth-annual Captain’s Challenge fundraising event April 3 with the goal to raise $300,000 in 24 hours. This is the second year for the event to cover one full day, and the 2018 event raised well above the goal amount.
Contributors can direct their gifts toward any campus office or department, athletic unit, scholarship fund, special program or other activity. Gifts will be matched up to $300 as long as match funds are available.
Contributors are particularly asked to consider the Chancellor’s Academic Excellence Fund, which is a general scholarship fund used to attract and retain the best and brightest students who might otherwise accept awards at other institutions.
A new promotion has been added to this year’s Captain’s Challenge to encourage seniors to participate in the fundraiser: any senior who donates $20.19 on April 3 will be entered into a drawing to switch places with UTM Chancellor Dr. Keith Carver for the day. Students will have the opportunity to be chancellor for the entire day while Carver must follow the student’s regular schedule.
“I love connecting with our students,” Carver said. “The upcoming senior raffle will give me an opportunity to ‘open up’ the office of the chancellor to one of our outstanding students.”
Those interested in helping to promote the event on social media and through other channels are encouraged to register as “Captain’s Challenge Pilots” at https://challenge.utm.edu/pilots.
For more information, contact the UTM Office of Alumni Relations at 731-881-7610.
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