Types of Endowment
Scholarship Support | Starting at $100,000
- Guarantee scholarship support that ensures future generations of talented musicians can pursue their studies with excellence and opportunity.
Departmental Support | Starting at $100,000
- Provide an important resource for deans, directors, and department chairs to meet the highest priorities of their units, as well as to create meaningful opportunities for students and faculty.
Guest Artist Programs | Starting at $100,000
- Create lasting support for the Shepherd School's artistic community through guest artist endowment programs that fund recurring residencies and workshops led by renowned professionals in various areas of musical expertise.
Faculty Chairs | Variable - starting at $3,000,000
- Secure the ability for Shepherd to compete for top faculty and to bring the best artists and teachers to campus, as a leading music school within a world-class research university, with endowed chairs.
Annual Endowment Reports
The Constituent Relations office distributes annual reports to each donor or designee following completion of the endowment audit conducted by the Office of Investment Accounting and the Rice Management Company.
These reports provide information about the overall performance of the endowment, the performance of the individual endowed funds established by the donor, and information about the students, faculty and programs that benefit from the fund.