The Impact of a Gift

Our students are the lifeblood of this campus. You support helps shape their futures by providing scholarship funding; currently more than half of our students need financial assistance. A scholarship enables students to concentrate on the most important part of the college experience – learning. Scholarships are the best way to directly impact the life of a student and help attract students with proven academic credentials, leadership and potential. Scholarships come in all shapes and sizes - endowed gifts, one-time gifts, gifts to the general scholarship fund, and gifts to specific parts of Aggie life like Summer Sea Term, study abroad, Aggie rings, and student organizations. 

A strong faculty backbone is critical to ensuring that Texas A&M University at Galveston continues to deliver the best educational experience for all Aggies. Top-notch faculty members attract not only other superb professors but also superb students. The best and brightest faculty members promote success for students in the classroom and in the world.

Texas A&M University at Galveston is known for small classes, innovative teaching and classroom experiences, and a campus culture that encourages students to be involved, be a leader, and gain first hand experience to help them in the real world. Endowments and gifts to benefit programs on campus, both academic and recreational, significantly impact the student and faculty experience, and help enrich the campus environment our students know and love. 

Donors have funded and supported programs on campus based on their interests and passions, their own student experience, or to address a missing opportunity for students and faculty. Gifts can be focused specifically for a group on campus, like the Peter D. and Kathy B. Huddleston TAMUG Maroon Delegates Fund which supports our premiere student ambassador program, the Maroon Delegates. Gifts can also help establish funds to address financial burdens for students, like the Texas A&M Maritime Academy Sea-Term Fuel Fund, which was created Capt. Augusta "Gussie" Roth '96 to help offset training vessel fuel costs for cadets who spend time training at sea.

Your gift creates something new for students and faculty to benefit from for years to come, which means that the impact continues to grow as well. These types of gifts allow a department, club, or campus program to use the funds for specific priorities and needs. Exceptional programs attract and retain exceptional faculty, who, in turn, attract the best graduate and undergraduate students.

Texas A&M University has committed to growing its Galveston campus by adding new facilities. Through donor support, the MAIN Academic Complex and Aggie Special Events Center, were completed in 2018. These new buildings now equip our students and faculty with the best technology, laboratories and classroom space—all required to learn and conduct leading edge research in this vibrant maritime and marine environment. Your support, both past, present, and future, will have a lasting impact as our future graduates go on to support the ever-evolving needs of our region, our state, our nation and the world.

Support for the campus may come in the form of a contribution to the construction of a new facility, the outfitting of a laboratory, the donation of a boat, or even the addition of a collection of works to the library. Capital support to improve the learning and living environment for our Sea Aggies through the building of new facilities and the maintenance and renovation of existing buildings is vital to our future.

To find out more about making a physical impact on campus, visit the Campus Legacy page.

The impact our donors and supporters have on campus is tangible, visible, and meaningful. Our primary goal is to help you identify and support your Sea Aggie passions, but we also want you to be able to experience the impact your gift has on our campus. The relationship you have with the campus extends much further than financial support - donors are part of our campus community as a whole. Each year, the Development Office hosts an Endowed Scholarship Reception, which allows us the opportunity to recognize and thank our donors. The evening gives donors the chance to meet their scholarship recipients, share a meal with current students on campus, and the opportunity to see their gift in action. 

Our hope is that our donors will receive some in-tangible benefits from their gift to campus. As our guest speaker at the Endowed Scholarship Reception in 2022, one of our donors shared a list of in-tangible benefits he and his wife have received by being donors to Texas A&M University. The list below highlights some of those in-tangible benefits:

1. We receive the blessing of helping a student achieve their goal of a degree from TAMUG or TAMU.
2. We have been blessed with some great relationships with the students that have continued even after they have graduated.
3. We have been able to honor the memory of our parents in a way that will continue for as long as TAMUG and TAMU are in existence.
4. Hopefully, your and our scholarships are the “seed” for these students here tonight to think about creating their own endowed scholarship in the future to benefit more students by “giving back”.
5. Creating a scholarship supports three of the six Core Values of Texas A&M-Excellence, Leadership- “Follow Me”, and Selfless Service- “How can I be of service?”