Your gift goes where it matters most
Giving to Arts & Sciences is a bet on New Mexico. Most of our students are from this state. More than half are the first in their families to pursue a degree. Your gift funds the scholarship that keeps an A&S student enrolled, the faculty whose research puts this College on the map, and a facility built for how today's students learn. It stays here. It works here.
College priorities: three areas where your gift is needed most.
Each priority has a dedicated page with the case for support, current goals, and naming opportunities.
Top Campaign
Humanities Building Fund
A $104M facility opening Spring 2029 that will serve nearly every UNM undergraduate. Demolition is complete; groundbreaking is set for Fall 2026.
Learn about the buildingStudent Emergency Fund
Student Scholarships
Emergencies should not derail a student's education or future. This fund delivers rapid support to keep students enrolled and on track even when unexpected expenses like car repairs come up. Your support helps students focus on their futures and not their setbacks.
Support a studentStrategic Investment
Dean's Discretionary Fund
This fund provides flexible resources to invest in faculty, students, and mission-critical initiatives, allowing the College to respond quickly to emerging opportunities and urgent needs. A gift to this fund helps the College recruit and retain faculty and provide them with the tools they need for research and the classroom.
Invest in Arts & SciencesFlexible funds: where your gift can go right now.
These funds let the College respond to needs as they happen, without waiting for the right grant cycle or budget line.
Student Emergency Relief Fund
Fund · Emergency Aid
Rapid support when an unexpected expense, a medical bill, rent, a car repair, threatens to derail a student's enrollment. Money gets to students fast.
Give to emergency reliefDean's Discretionary Fund
Fund · Strategic Flexibility
Flexible resources the Dean uses to act on emerging opportunities, faculty recruitment, classroom needs, and pilot programs that would otherwise miss their window.
Give to the Dean's FundA&S Scholarship Fund
Fund 201029 · General Scholarship
The most flexible scholarship money available. Small awards, distributed where they have the highest chance of keeping a student in school through graduation.
Give to the Scholarship FundLooking for a specific department, museum, or program?
The College has more than 250 named funds across its departments, schools, institutes, and museums. Search by name, fund number, or browse the full list.
If you know the fund number, you can also give directly at unmfund.org and reference it in the gift comments.
Ways to give.
Each method routes to the UNM Foundation, which manages all gifts on the College's behalf and provides tax receipts.
Credit card, ACH, or digital wallet. The fastest way to give, with an instant receipt.
Give online at unmfund.orgMake checks payable to the UNM Foundation. Include the fund name, department, or purpose you intend for your gift in the memo section and mail to:
UNM Foundation
Two Woodward Center
700 Lomas Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
UNM employees can support the College through monthly payroll deduction. Complete the form once and giving continues automatically.
Download payroll deduction form (PDF)Talk to our team.
If you're considering a major gift, endowed fund, or naming opportunity, reach out to us directly. Our team can help connect your gift to what matters most to you and the College.
Emily Bridson
Emily.Bridson@unmfund.org(517) 490-0391
HSS Building Campaign, principal gifts, endowments
Rob St. Mary
rob.st.mary@unmfund.org(505) 313-7696
Major gifts, scholarships, research support, departmental giving
Direct all student inquiries to asadvise@unm.edu or (505) 277-4621.
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