Global Security Initiative
Global Security Initiative
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ASU’s Global Security Initiative is at the heart of the university’s response to national security challenges. GSI develops solutions that advance national security imperatives by coordinating the university’s many defense-related capabilities to advance research, technology development, and programs in partnership with defense industry leaders.
The Global Security Initiative seeks philanthropic support to build on its foundation for supporting national defense. Philanthropic funds will enable GSI to:
- Extend its work into critical technology research and development areas that are often unfunded or underfunded due to competing federal priorities.
- Increase GSI’s capacity to anticipate security threats in emerging domains such as low Earth orbit, as well as evolving risks like biowarfare and geoengineering.
- Advance security-oriented education and workforce development
- strengthen public discourse around technological areas that are vital to American global leadership.
Impact of Donor Support
- More learners can pursue higher education. Thanks to our donors, more than 7,000 ASU students have received upwards of $32 million in scholarships with more than $39 million raised.
- More students succeed. ASU ranks #1 among the state’s public universities for its 86% first-year retention rate thanks in part to donor-funded student success initiatives.
- Important initiatives continue. More than $320 million in new gifts and commitments support ongoing initiatives at ASU.
- The spirit of generosity abounds. In the past year, more than 100,000 individual, corporate and foundation donors stepped forward to help the ASU community.
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