What to Support

When you give to the Fairfield Fund, you drive innovation for the benefit of our students. These annual resources combine with new opportunities as they arise to advance academics, financial aid, mental health, counseling, career services, and student activities that make a Fairfield experience meaningful, inclusive, and robust. As enrollment and student and faculty needs continue to change and grow, every single gift matters and has an impact.

Approximately 90% of Fairfield students receive need-based or merit scholarships and financial aid to access their Fairfield education. When you support scholarships and financial aid at Fairfield, you provide curious, ambitious, and deserving individuals access to our modern, Jesuit and Catholic institution.

Fairfield University values the notion of cura personalis—care of the whole person. When you support this University priority, you invest in courses and programs that engage religious belief and practice — in religious studies, philosophy, history, literature, and the arts — as well as lively discussions of faith, spirituality, justice, and public life outside the classroom. Your gift will help to enhance programs and centers that, through lectures, workshops, publications, and grant-funded activities, continually propose questions of faith, reason, justice, and beauty.

Fairfield University’s commitment to radical hospitality in service of racial, social, and economic justice is visible through the many initiatives we offer, but perhaps most notably in our ongoing effort to advance access and affordability. Your support for DEI does more than help the University recruit a broader community of students, but rather to recruit, retain, graduate, place, and engage a community of students — with the support of faculty and staff — that is reflective of the rich tapestry of humankind and that celebrates the dignity of every individual.

The championship history of Fairfield Athletics is due in large part to our generous community of alumni, parents, and friends who support strengthening the student-athlete experience in every aspect of their college career. A successful athletics program is a powerful source of pride for alumni and current students—connecting generations—and plays a significant factor for prospective students who want to be part of a reputable institution. A donation to this area supports student-run club sports and will assist us in raising our stature as a Division I Athletics University.

Support toward this University priority is invested to nurture and strengthen our students in mind, body, and spirit. This includes providing students access to fitness and recreational programs, counseling and psychological services, and primary and preventative ambulatory healthcare through our on-campus, centrally located Student Health Center. Your donation of any size provides the resources students need to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle in every aspect of their lives.

Fairfield University has taken a leadership role in the promotion of sustainability to become a regional center of higher education, discovery and operations. When you give to this area, you support current initiatives in the greening of campus structures, energy sourcing, and accountability for greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to these largely operational initiatives, Fairfield has a strong tradition of faculty and student engagement in sustainability initiatives leading to the establishment of a campus organic teaching garden, student-driven water quality monitoring, vigorous curriculum development, and other academic initiatives inside and outside the classroom.