Campus Units

Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU will help continue NKU’s important work of educating talented minds. Join us in our mission to develop this region’s strongest asset, our people, with an investment in the leaders of tomorrow who will impact their communities, lift up the region and change the world. Together, we can empower the future community leaders, entrepreneurs, health professionals, artists and CEOs who, as innovators and engaged citizens, will ensure the vibrancy and prosperity of Greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky in the coming decades.

Your support takes our students, university and region further, helping deserving students access higher education, complete their educational goals no matter the challenges and engage with their communities. You can change lives, create leaders and transform the region and beyond. Together, we will build our tomorrow, today.

This is our purpose—it’s what drives us further, faster.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Sarah Byrd
Director of Development
Phone: (859) 572-5286
Email: byrds5@nku.edu

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Since Northern Kentucky University’s 2015 entrance into the Division I Horizon League, NKU Athletics has captivated the hearts of students, alumni and the region with stunning performances and demonstrated excellence. Our athletics across the board showcase the determination with which NKU student-athletes and coaches alike pursue success.

Support for the Department of Athletics is an investment in the unstoppable momentum that brings national recognition to NKU and our region, creating thrilling opportunities for even more student-athletes to realize their dreams—in both the classroom and in competition.  

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Derek Petruskevich
Assistant Athletic Director, Development
Phone: (859) 572-6632
Email: gnfderek@nku.edu

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Founded in 1893 as the nation’s third night law school, Salmon P. Chase College of Law has become known as “The Lawyer’s School” for the skills our graduates display as they rise to prominence in the bar and on the bench. Chase trains students in a challenging and supportive environment that readies them to become to legal professionals serving our region’s future.

Your support for Chase College of Law during Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU will allow us to strengthen and preserve our college’s outstanding reputation. Together, we can sustain Chase’s legacy as we build a strong future for one of the region’s most important legal schools.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

David MacKnight
Associate Dean for Advancement, Chase College of Law
Phone: (859) 572-5276
Email: macknightd1@nku.edu

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The College of Arts and Sciences prepares today’s students for the ever-changing global marketplace that demands a nimble and responsive workforce capable of finding new solutions. Our dedicated students’ passions lead them to fulfilling careers and lives that change the world, and passion drives our faculty, too, as they challenge our students to discover their potential.

During Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU, your support empowers the College of Arts and Sciences’s mission to serve our thousands of students through committed faculty and a variety of enhanced programs. Together, we will impact our students in lasting ways that create the leaders of tomorrow and build a better today for our region.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Sarah Eastburn
Director of Development, College of Arts and Sciences
Phone: (859) 572-5876
Email: eastburns1@nku.edu

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In the College of Education, we train those who will teach, influence and care for children throughout the region. Through numerous programs and centers, as well as more than 400 community partnerships, the college offers a combination of classroom and experiential learning aimed at empowering students to transform our communities.

Your support through Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU will empower our students, faculty and staff to create lasting, positive change in our region and beyond. Together, we will enable our students to accomplish the challenging and rewarding work of leading the next generation of teachers and social workers.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Sarah Byrd
Director of Development
Phone: (859) 572-5286
Email: byrds5@nku.edu

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Graduates of Northern Kentucky University’s College of Health & Human Services are at the center of improving the health and lives of the people of our region. Our students learn through a rich array of programs and hands-on training that broaden their experience while providing critical health care for those in need. The college embodies NKU’s commitment to positively affecting public health in our region, our state and the country.

Your support through Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU will empower our students to become the region’s health care workers of tomorrow. In the near future, we will launch new programs and degrees aimed at keeping pace with our region’s growing health and wellness needs, and your gifts will help us as we pursue stronger enrollments, expanded community partnerships and, ultimately, greater student success.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Eric Gentry
Vice President for University Advancement
Phone: (859) 572-5129
Email: egentry@nku.edu

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Northern Kentucky University’s College of Informatics has pioneered a transdisciplinary approach to the art, science, business, ethics and technology of information that acknowledges its immense complexities while nurturing technical expertise, creativity and communication skills in our students. We are an engine of economic growth and development, producing graduates ready on day one to fill employment needs in our region.

When you support the College of Informatics, you offer life-changing opportunities to tomorrow’s guardians, sources and users of the digital world and empower us to prepare graduates ready to move our digital culture forward.  

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Taylor Police
Director of Development, College of Informatics
Phone: (859) 572-7711
Email: policet1@nku.edu

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Our region’s future economic success starts at Northern Kentucky University’s Haile Bank College of Business, where students obtain the skills, abilities and knowledge necessary to create and maintain prosperity in their communities. Through high-quality learning experiences and dedicated faculty, we develop the future business leaders of northern Kentucky, Greater Cincinnati and beyond.

Your support for the Haile College of Business through Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU will allow us to strengthen our program, providing even greater opportunities to learn through scholarly inquiry and hands-on experience. Together, we can build our region’s prosperous future today.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Elizabeth Berk
Director of Development, Haile College of Business
Phone: (859) 572-5839
Email: georgee1@nku.edu

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The Honors College is an experience that will change a student’s life, ensuring that motivated NKU students can go further in exploring their passions through study abroad, community-based research, extended laboratory research, internships, and relationships with community and faculty mentors.

The Honors College asks students to dream big, and your support will help us provide the support necessary for them to achieve their highly aspirational goals. As the newest college at NKU, we’re brimming with potential, and gifts will help us take our college further, faster by developing new ways for high-potential learners to achieve their dreams and change the world.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Sarah Byrd
Director of Development
Phone: (859) 572-5286
Email: byrds5@nku.edu

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The Institute for Health Innovation (IHI) is NKU’s central hub for one of the most important causes the university serves—improving population health within the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Through a three-pronged strategy of linking community, working together and innovative solutions, the IHI is tasked with addressing chronic illness, studying social determinants of health, training future health leaders and accelerating health innovation in our region.

Your support through Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU helps us as we tackle issues that threaten the population health of our region and the state of Kentucky. Gifts toward the institute are an investment in the future of our region, supporting initiatives, services and programs aimed at protecting our future.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Eric Gentry
Vice President for University Advancement
Phone: (859) 572-5129
Email: egentry@nku.edu

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The Steely Library at Northern Kentucky University empowers students to become lifelong learners and sophisticated users of information, offering access to factual sources and the technology to make sense of it all. And Steely serves as a training ground for current and future librarians through the university’s Bachelor of Science in Library Informatics.

Students come to the library to learn, work and connect. As a hub for collaboration and research, the library is vital to NKU, and your support through Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU helps our students face academic challenges in pursuit of meaningful careers and an engaged life.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Eric Gentry
Vice President for University Advancement
Phone: (859) 572-5129
Email: egentry@nku.edu

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The Department of Student Affairs at NKU extends the learning experience beyond the classroom through co-curricular programs and services that prepare students to learn, lead and serve. We engage students to enhance their education through activities and involvements that develop the whole student as they pursue a degree.

Your support during Further, Faster: The Campaign for NKU will allow us to support and expand Student Affairs’ programs and services; collaborate better with campus and community partners; and improve resources and facilities that support student success. And your gifts will help us as we encourage and support staff in their professional development.

For more information about the campaign, please contact:

Sarah Byrd
Director of Development
Phone: (859) 572-5286
Email: byrds5@nku.edu

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