Accounting – The goal ($250,000 annually) is to increase private support to improve recruitment and retention of top quality faculty and to increase scholarship and student support to students heading for success.
Successful fund raising efforts will:

· Establish six professoriates to reward and recognize top faculty.
· Establish an endowed faculty development/scholarship fund.
· Establish a student scholarship fund to provide for twenty-five scholarships annually.
· Establish a student enhancement/enrichment fund to support the student run accounting groups to attend conferences, participate in competitions and interact with the professional community.

Entrepreneurship – The goal ($500,000 annually) is to obtain private support to establish a Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation and provide students with an expanded interdisciplinary curriculum in this key discipline to economic recovery for Ohio.
Successful fund raising efforts will:

· Establish an endowed fund for faculty development in entrepreneurship.
· Provide for full-time leadership and development of the Center.
· Establish an endowed fund to recognize and reward top faculty for scholarship and service to the Center.
· Provide added faculty to meet an expanded curriculum.
· Establish an Entrepreneurship Laboratory.
· Provide for Student Learning Community in entrepreneurship.

Financial Engineering – The goal ($500,000 annually) is to obtain sufficient private support to ensure the growth and development of Ohio’s only financial engineering program, maintain its national ranking and sustain its one of a kind trading floor.
Successful fund raising efforts will:

· Build an endowed fund that will sustain the trading floor.
· Establish an endowed fund to provide annual scholarships to entering students.
· Establish an endowed fund to recognize and reward top faculty for scholarship and service to the Program.

Global Management Center – The goal ($120,000 annually) is to obtain private support to fund the coordination and facilitation of the multiple faculty and programmatic resources involved with global business issues at Kent State and in the region so that students and business leaders can expand their understanding and abilities to deal with the many complexities involved.
Successful fund raising efforts will:

· Build an endowed fund that will provide for full-time direction of this effort.
· Provide funds to help students and faculty to experience global business operations.
· Establish an endowed fund to recognize and reward top faculty for scholarship and service to the Center.

Marketing – The goal ($50,000 annually) is to obtain private support to help implement and fulfill the objectives of the revised marketing major curriculum that will place priority focus on preparing for marketing careers in small and medium sized businesses.
Successful fund raising efforts will:

· Provide funds for enhanced student learning tools (computers, etc.) to engage in the curriculum.
· Provide funds to support students in their expanded outreach activities with the business community.
· Provide added faculty to meet an expanded curriculum.