Texas A&M is committed to promoting and supporting holistic areas of wellbeing, including physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual health. Students achieve academic success through a positive, constructive, and secure environment. Your gift to support one or more programs or services in this area would help create a climate in which Texas A&M students make good decisions that contribute to their overall success.
Aggies Live On Housing Scholarships
Students who live on campus have a higher grade point average and are more likely to graduate on time. With the costs of living on campus ranging from $2,000-$5,865 per semester (double occupancy), housing scholarships are essential for students whose housing is not covered by other programs. Growing these endowments, creates support annually and in perpetuity for students to live on campus and build that legacy. Learn more about housing scholarships.
Corps of Cadets Scholarships
Support a cadet through one of four scholarships: Keeper of the Spirit Scholarship; Corps of Cadets 21st Century Scholarship; General Rudder Corps Scholarship, or a Sul Ross Scholarship. Once funded, these scholarships provide a student with an annual stipend for up to four years, after which a new cadet will begin to benefit from your gift.
Student Activities Excellence Fund
Student Activities implements and supports various leadership and involvement programs during the course of each academic year. Both departmental and student organization activities use our resources – staff, equipment, and funding – to support annual and one-time leadership development and engagement initiatives.
Your gifts of $25,000 or more may be designated for leadership and involvement programming, international experiences, high-impact practices, fraternity and sorority life, student organization grants or department needs. Give online at give.am/StuActExcellence.
Living Learning Communities
In these residential clusters, students share academic or social and cultural interests and benefit from enhanced activities centered around a specific focus, with advisers who believe learning is an active and dynamic process that occurs inside and outside of the classroom. In general, students in Living Learning Communities have higher GPRs, increased retention rates, enhanced satisfaction and involvement, reduced participation in high-risk behaviors and higher four-year graduation rates.
A $25,000 endowment for each Living Learning Community would provide funding for enhanced activities and excursions. Additional scholarship support would ensure that more students have the opportunity to participate regardless of their financial capacity. You can give online at give.am/SupportL3C.
Sport Clubs
More than 2,500 students participate and compete in one of the 36 sport clubs offered through Recreational Sports. Students in sport clubs are directly responsible for all aspects of operating and managing a successful and competitive organization—including fundraising—which gives them the opportunity to develop both athletic and leadership skills.
Contributions would allow us to: replace the sailing team's fleet of boats used for practices and hosting competitions; provide travel funding assistance to sport clubs teams that qualify for their national championships; support the annual sport clubs leadership seminar, an educational opportunity developing more than 100 student leaders; and fund the design and construction of a feature sports field with permanent seating, competition level playing surface and lighting. Significant contributions for projects could come with naming opportunities. Learn more about sport club scholarships.
Extended Orientation Programs
Every new Aggie is given the opportunity to learn about Texas A&M and connect with peers in an environment best suited for them. Students leave our extended orientation programs newly ignited with the Aggie spirit and the tools necessary to successfully transition into college life. Studies have shown that retention of freshmen students correlates strongly with attendance at such programs, including Fish Camp, Grad Camp, Venture Camps, T-Camp and Howdy Camp.
Fish Camp had more than 800 scholarship applications submitted in 2019, without the continued support each year these scholarships would not be awarded. Endowed scholarships of $25,000 or more would allow equal access to all of our extended orientation programs, regardless of financial means. To learn how you can support extended orientation programs at Texas A&M, including Fish Camp, Grad Camp, Venture Camp, T-Camp, and Howdy Camp, email givetostudentaffairs@txamfoundation.com.
One of the strategic goals for the Division of Student Affairs is to offer student programming and experience opportunities to students of all financial means. Some of these experiences require participation fees which are cost prohibitive for some of our students.
Those opportunities include Extended Orientation Programs (Fish Camp, T-Camp, Howdy Camp, Ventures Camp, and Grad Camp), MSC programs, MSC Stark Northeast Tour, Freshman Leadership Organizations (FLOs), The Big Event leadership, Fish Camp leadership, Sports Club fees, Fraternity/ Sorority fees, leadership conference fees.
Help us make the Aggie experience accessible to all students! Give to the Aggie Experience Fund online or email Reagan Chessher '96, senior director of development.