DSU announces Trojans Unite Comprehensive Campaign

Dakota State University is launching the Trojans Unite Comprehensive Campaign with a fundraising goal of 250-million dollars.  

Miles and Lisa Beacom will chair the campaign. Miles Beacom is a 1981 DSU alumnus and CEO of PREMIER Bankcard.

The Trojans Unite Comprehensive Campaign (or TUCC) has three pillars of focus – Trojans Unite Building Champions, Trojans Unite Cyber-Research Initiative, and Trojans Unite Academic Success.  Each pillar has its own fundraising goal and purpose.

Trojans Unite Building Champions has a fundraising goal of 100-million dollars to develop the athletics events center, arena, indoor track and training facility, outdoor plaza, and baseball and softball fields. A total of 45-million dollars has been raised for this pillar.

The Cyber-Research Initiative has a 90-million dollar fundraising goal, which has been reached. It is a multi-party private/public partnership that will expand DSU’s Applied Research Lab to Sioux Falls and increase DSU’s educational capacity in Madison to produce more graduates of The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences.  The partnership for this initiative includes T. Denny Sanford, Sanford Health, the cities of Madison and Sioux Falls, Forward Sioux Falls, and the state of South Dakota in conjunction with DSU and the Board of Regents.

The third pillar is Academic Success, which has a fundraising goal of 60-million dollars, and will support scholarships, speaker series, endowed chairs, and provide programmatic funding including lab and classroom equipment.