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The Honor the Future campaign, the largest in University history, concluded in 2025, thanks to thousands of loyal supporters. Its impact on students, faculty, facilities, and research reaches across Charlottesville, Wise County, and Northern Virginia as it continues to advance the school in its third century of service to the commonwealth, nation, and world.
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The McIntire School of Commerce’s Inspire the Next Century campaign met and surpassed its fundraising goal of $250 million in February 2024, 17 months ahead of schedule. With an additional $77.9 million in University matching funds, the total philanthropic impact exceeded $350 million.
With more than 7,500 McIntire alumni contributing, the Commerce School’s fundraising effort boasted one of the highest alumni participation rates across UVA’s 12 schools; more than 1,700 households joined McIntire’s Dean’s Society with gifts of $2,500+ ($1,000+ for recent alumni).
Profound engagement resulted in the creation of 13 new Bicentennial Professorships, including a pooled Global Scholarship in honor of Dean Emeritus Carl Zeithaml, as well as two new McIntire-specific Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professorships and a pooled professorship in honor of McIntire faculty member George A. Overstreet.
The school also created 34 new Bicentennial Scholarship funds for students, ranging from $100,000 to $10 million, making McIntire’s programs more accessible. The culmination of a years-long initiative, the campaign inspired the community to invest in priorities including the Centennial Fund for Faculty Excellence, Student Success and Scholarships, the Next Century Building Fund, McIntire’s seven research centers, and new curricular programming.
Thriving in Business and Beyond
Shaped by a Transformative Student Experience
Lissette Foster (McIntire ’24)
Lissette Foster, a first-generation college student from Loyalhanna, Pennsylvania, graduated from the McIntire School in 2024 with a B.S. in Commerce, concentrating in management and marketing. Her education was supported by the Glen and Amy Kacher Bicentennial Scholars Fund and the Thomas I. Storrs Scholarship.
Foster says that her Commerce School education impacted her in ways she could have never imagined, stating that McIntire’s dynamic, hands-on curriculum equipped her with the skills and resources to thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments—both in the classroom and now in her first professional role as a commercial trainee for Anheuser-Busch in San Diego.
Foster was actively involved in McIntire’s signature student experience as a Commerce Cohort mentor and member of the Latinx Student Network. In her fourth year, she recorded a video for Commerce Cohort donors, sharing how their generosity shaped her education and paved the way for her future success.
Exemplifying Leadership and Excellence
Applying Analytical Expertise in the Professional World
Vic Lin (McIntire ’24)
Vic Lin graduated in 2024 from McIntire with a B.S. in Commerce, concentrating in finance and information technology and completing the real estate track, along with a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the College of Arts & Sciences. He was a recipient of the Connaughton Bicentennial Scholars Fund.
During his time at UVA, Lin distinguished himself through leadership and academic excellence. He served as program director of CASH and was a member of the Commerce Council. He credits McIntire’s collaborative and close-knit community with fostering the exchange of ideas and inspiring students to reach their full potential.
Now a management associate at MicroStrategy in McLean, Virginia, Lin applies his analytical expertise and financial knowledge to his work. He remains committed to lifelong learning and embracing new opportunities in the evolving global financial landscape.
Pioneering Biotech Education at McIntire
The M.S. in Commerce Biotechnology Track prepares students for a broad range of careers at the intersection of business and life sciences, such as entrepreneurship, management, and leadership roles within the private sector.
Nikki Hastings Shumway Business Health Science Fellow; Biotechnology Track Director, M.S. in Commerce Program
Biotechnology track director for the M.S. in Commerce program, Nikki Hastings is the Shumway Business Health Science Fellow. Established by The Chris and Carrie Shumway Foundation in 2018, the Shumway Business Health Science Professorship was created to support faculty teaching in programs at the intersection of business and the health sciences, with an emphasis on bioscience.
A 2009 graduate of the University’s biomedical engineering Ph.D. program, Hastings applied her experience building biotech companies and working in local Charlottesville-based drug development startups to design the M.S. in Commerce’s biotechnology track, launched in the fall of 2022. The Shumways’ support has empowered Hastings to grow the program further, which has benefited greatly from her leadership and vast knowledge of the industry. As the co-founder and executive director of nonprofit CvilleBioHub, a major player in the region’s biotech ecosystem, Hastings has helped raise the M.S. in Commerce Program’s profile and reputation locally and nationally. The track she helped develop has been defined by its nuanced curriculum, one that provides practical commercial knowledge that graduate student candidates report to have found solely at the Commerce School.
A gift from Ramon W. Breeden Jr. (McIntire ’56) will support the McIntire Expansion Project and fund the Athletics...
The gift is a continuation of Tim and Jennifer Smith’s decades long generosity to the University.
The $10 million endowment, approved Thursday by the Board of Visitors, will establish the John A. Griffin Dean’s Chair...
A McIntire education has prepared three generations of the Schade family for success in their chosen careers.
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