Despite its national reputation and achievement, the College has major needs that cannot be met by state funding nor offset by research grants and clinic and hospital fees.
The Achieve! campaign will help us bridge our funding gap.
The campaign has the following program goals:
- $ 4 million for merit and needs-based professional DVM student scholarships and graduate fellowships
- $ 7 million for endowed professorships, assistant professorships and fellowships
- $11 million for innovative programs
- $10 million for faculty research into animal and human health
- $ 3 million in unrestricted funds for emerging opportunities
- $15 million for the Randall B. Terry Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center and other facility enhancements
The need for a new veterinary teaching hospital is acute. The current teaching hospital is 22 years old and — despite best efforts to alter and adapt existing facilities — it is running out of space for people, patients, and equipment. Limited space restricts the number of small animals and horses that can be treated as well as the number of students who can gain the valuable clinical experience. The current teaching hospital also faces the issue of becoming outdated as veterinary medicine experiences dramatic technical growth with the development of sophisticated diagnostic and treatment equipment and techniques. Advances in veterinary medicine continue to enhance animal health and increase the expectations North Carolina small animal owners and equine owners have for state-of-the-art sophisticated care at the state’s hospital.
The Randall B. Terry Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center
Our new companion animal veterinary medical center is projected to cost $45 million and groundbreaking is currently scheduled for the spring of 2007. It will be designed to enhance our ability to meet the animal-owning public’s increasing needs by providing state-of-the-art specialized care for domestic pets including dogs, cats, birds, pet fish and other small companion animals. When completed, the facility will encompass 122,000 square feet, an increase of 60%, which will accommodate an increase in small animal patient case load from 14,500 annually to 25,000.
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