NEWS
This past Friday night, as members of our Sooner family gathered on campus and across the globe to celebrate Homecoming 2022, we announced the “Lead On” fundraising campaign, a transformative $2 billion philanthropic campaign, seizing the unparalleled opportunity to build on the fundamental tradition of the University of Oklahoma – constantly striving to reach new heights of success.
At the University of Oklahoma, we change lives. That has always been true, and it has been particularly true of the hundreds of thousands of OU alumni and friends who have supported the university philanthropically during its history. Our donors choose to make an impact here because they know that the University of Oklahoma is a place where possibilities are endless: through the groundbreaking research and innovation taking place on our campuses, through the services we provide to Oklahoma’s communities, and through individual students who go on to touch the lives of countless others as they work and serve after their time with us at the university.
"Once in a generation, a university reaches a pivotal point when aspiration, purpose and opportunity converge. When a tradition of excellence, exceptional people and vision fuse to create an extraordinary chance to shape the future. For the University of Oklahoma and the OU Family, that time is now."
Our legacy is living. It’s something we have inherited, but it’s also something we create in each one of our students – a legacy of possibility and opportunity that is only realized when hard work meets determination through giving of ourselves for the benefit of the future. Throughout OU’s history, our compass has only pointed in one direction: forward.
With this campaign, we ask that you partner with us to create the OU of the future – a place that builds on the unshakeable foundation of the traditions that represent our highest aspirations and that constantly strives for new heights of excellence. Together, as a university community, we endeavor to become worthy of our past – to live the legacy we have inherited, to create it in others – and to deliver on our promise of changing lives for generations to come. I invite you to join us in this endeavor.
I invite you to Lead On.
Joseph Harroz, Jr.
President, The University of Oklahoma
