IIT President's Council

The President's Council is a select group of generous alumni, parents, and friends who understand and value the university's essential mission: to provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Members of the President's Council promote this mission through personal gifts of $1,000 or more each year.

Click here to join the President's Council today.

Transforming Lives

The generous support of President's Council members is felt throughout the IIT community, from gifted students being equipped for a lifetime of professional success to faculty whose cutting-edge research is changing the way we live and work.

Support at the President's Council level helps:

to fund scholarships, making an IIT education affordable to some of the national's most promising—and deserving—students.
the university recruit and retain faculty who bring real-world experience into the classroom and laboratory.
the university attract exceptional students and provide them with a uniquely interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial education.
to provide funding for interprofessional programs and cutting edge learning spaces like the Idea Shop.

President's Council donations help IIT education the next great generation of IIT alumni—leaders and innovators—who will transform the world, just as those who came before them have.

Please join the ranks of the IIT President's Council today.

Benefits

While members find that supporting IIT students is its own reward, the university expresses its appreciation to the President's Council members in the following ways:

listing in the annual honor roll publication
invitations to exclusive university events
President's Council lapel pin

For more information about joining the President's council, please contact Jason Smith, director of Annual Giving, at 312.567.7112 or jsmith31@iit.edu.