Achieving a legacy of excellence is significantly aided by annual operating support to sustain both scholarships and program initiatives. Recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty with national reputations, enrolling student scholars and students with unique talents, funding scholarships to enhance access and opportunity for those who cannot afford a college education, strengthening the library collection and technology, and initiating new learning opportunities in environmental sustainability, global studies and business entrepreneurship are all made possible through vital annual support funding.

Such funding enables the President, her senior cabinet and academic deans to address important challenges and to take advantage of opportunities that can truly make a difference in achieving excellence. Such support serves as the cornerstone of Dillard.