Creighton University

From the Campaign Chairman

Campaign Supports Jesuit Mission
For more than 450 years, the Jesuits have played a unique and extraordinary role enlightening the human race. For more than 450 years, they have been leaders in the field of education, combining the latest scholarship with traditional teachings. Click for more ...

A Legacy of Philanthropy
The Creighton University of today reaches out around the world in service, scholarship and research, thanks, in part, to its early visionaries. Click for more ...

The Power of Endowment
Bruce Rohde, national campaign chair, writes that large endowments separate the great universities from all others, allowing them to maintain their leading edge. Click for more ...

Campaign Off to a Great Start
As a Creighton alumnus (BSBA'71, JD'73) and national chair of the campaign, I am pleased by the tremendous response of fellow alumni and friends. Click for more ...

Message from Estate and Trust Services

What are Your Hidden Assets?
Estate planning often is viewed as a process for you to inventory, manage and distribute your assets. But, really, what are the assets you have to distribute? One would assume by assets, we mean tangible items such as stocks, a home or retirement funds. Surprisingly, more and more of the people I assist have a hidden asset they want to perpetuate: their values — what they believe in, subscribe to and how they want to be remembered. Click for more ...

Estate Planning: A Simple Q&A
The pathway to fulfilling dreams for transforming Creighton University can start with a few simple questions about estate planning. Click for more ...

Remember Creighton University in your year-end plans
As you finalize your year-end financial plans, know that your gifts to Creighton University not only provide our students with a values-centered education rooted in the Jesuit tradition, but are essential to Creighton achieving its place as a preeminent institution of higher learning, patient care and service. Click for more ...

News and Events

Read the latest campaign news in Creighton University Magazine.

No Place Like Home for Creighton Donors
Like many former students, you made Creighton University your home for a number of years. Now, there is a way for you and other Creighton alumni and friends to return the favor. Through an arrangement known as a retained life estate (RLE), you can make a lifetime donation of your home while continuing to live there. This increasingly popular arrangement provides both you and Creighton with significant benefits. Click for more ...

New Legislation Creates Opportunities for Retirement Fund Owners
(Creighton Magazine, Fall 2007) The Pension Protection Act of 2006 created significant opportunities for individuals to help meet their charitable goals through tax-free gifts from their IRA and Roth-IRA accounts. Click for more ...

Gifts Fund Professorships
(July 1, 2007) Two recent endowment gifts funded the Fr. Henry W. Casper, S.J., Professorship in History and the DCI-J. Dan Egan, M.D., Endowed Professorship in Nephrology. Click for more ...

Former CEO Invests in Creighton
(Creighton Magazine, Spring 2007) As a retired corporate executive of a Fortune 500 company, Allen Jacobson knows the value of a good investment. He considers a gift to Creighton a good investment. Click for more ...

Creighton Society Names New Chairs
(April 29, 2007) National co-chairs of the University's Creighton Society for 2007 are William and Mary Fitzpatrick Graft of Barrington, Ill., near Chicago. Click for more ...

Fr. Schlegel: This is Creighton's Moment
(Feb. 13, 2007) "The building blocks are in place to craft Creighton's future," Creighton President the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J., told those gathered for his annual Convocation address on Feb. 13. The event was part of Founders Week at the University. Click for more ...

Creighton Announces Harper Center
(Feb. 13, 2007) A generous gift from Charles M. "Mike" Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra Foods Inc. and RJR-Nabisco, and an emeritus member of Creighton University's Board of Directors, will provide the operating support for the newly named Mike and Josie Harper Center for Student Life and Learning. Click for more ...

Scholarship, Family Motivate Law Student
(Creighton Magazine, Winter 2006) Suman Barua did not grow up in a Bangladesh mud hut like his father, or become a farm laborer like his mother, but he might have, and he well knows it. Click for more ...

Love of Farming, Medicine Blossom at Creighton
(Creighton Magazine, Winter 2006) James Laumond, MD'64, credits a serendipitous decision to attend Creighton University School of Medicine with having long-lasting influences on his professional and personal life. Click for more ...

Desire to Benefit Community Motivates Gift
(Creighton Magazine, Winter 2006) When it came to estate planning, longtime Omaha residents Joan E. (Harmon) McCarthy, ARTS'59, and Edward J. McCarthy, BSC'56, knew that they wanted to give back to their community in some way. Click for more ...

University Signals that It Is ‘Willing to Lead’
Officials at Creighton University on Saturday, Dec. 3, announced a $350 million campaign goal in an unprecedented effort to move the university into the forefront as one of the finest Jesuit, Catholic universities in the United States. Click for more ...

Key Gifts Announced at Kickoff
Two generous donations have helped jump start “Willing to Lead: THE CAMPAIGN FOR CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY,” University officials announced at the campaign kickoff event on Saturday, Dec. 3. Click for more ...