Partnerships - The University of South Carolina Aiken

Family Fund
T
he Family Fund is the University of South Carolina
system-wide solicitation of all faculty and staff. The
funds raised are both restricted and unrestricted and
support a variety of programs.
With 84% of our faculty and staff participating in 2007-2008, our
campus is again on target to have one of the highest participation
rates among any of the USC campuses with more than $64,000
raised. USC Aiken’s Family Fund involvement is a powerful message
to alumni and friends regarding the commitment the University’s
employees have to the institution.
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USC Aiken Family Fund Participation Rates
86%
83% 84%
76%
56%
2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008
Campus Highlights
USC Aiken enrolls over 3,100 students. Our students come from 45 of the 46 counties in South Carolina, 28 states, and 22 foreign countries. Over 20% of
students reside on campus. Our faculty to student ratio is 16:1 with the average class size of 17. The entering freshman class of 2007 included 617 students.
Almost half of our freshmen reside on campus. In 2006-2007, USCA awarded 421 bachelor’s degrees and 16 master’s degrees.
USC Aiken is ranked second among the top public baccalaureate colleges in the South in the year 2008 edition of U.S.News & World Report’s guide,
“America’s Best Colleges.” This is the 10 th consecutive year USC Aiken has been ranked in the top three public baccalaureate colleges in the South category.
USC Aiken has been ranked first four times: 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007.
Dr. Val Lumans, professor of history and chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science, was honored with a Carolina Trustee
Professorship Award in 2006-2007. Dr. Lumans is the fourth USCA faculty member in the last six years to receive the award for faculty at USC non-
Columbia campuses.
Four USCA students were named Magellan Scholars for Spring through Fall terms of 2007. These students and their selected faculty mentors receive
scholarship funding for research projects in their areas of study.