Roundup of colleges starting or concluding fund-raising campaigns

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Colby College has started a campaign to raise $750 million and has already reached $383 million. There is no official end date for the campaign, which Colby says will be the largest ever by a liberal arts college. (In 2015, Williams College made that claim with the launch of a $650 million campaign.)
Colorado College has started a campaign to raise $435 million by 2021. A major priority will be scholarships, with the goal of endowing 180 of them.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced a $1 billion campaign. The major goals are student scholarships, faculty support and campus enhancements.
University of Florida has announced a campaign to raise $3 billion by 2022. About $1.3 billion has been raised in a three-year quiet phase. Among the goals are more endowed chairs and adding $1 billion to the university's endowment.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is starting a campaign to raise $2.25 billion by 2022. The university has already raised just over $1 billion.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has started a campaign to raise $4.25 billion by 2022. The largest single target within the campaign is $1 billion for scholarships.
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee has announced a $200 million campaign. In a five-year quiet phase, it has already raised $170 million.