SMU CIRCLE FUND: CLASS OF 2025 SPECIAL
As a graduating student, you have a unique and meaningful opportunity to leave a lasting mark on SMU. With a minimum gift of $120 to the SMU Circle Fund, you can share a personal quote — a reflection of your hopes, lessons learned, or words of inspiration — engraved on a commemorative plaque bearing your name, class, and year of graduation.
These plaques will be permanently installed in seminar rooms across campus, where your words will inspire future generations of students who walk the same halls and sit where you once did.
This is a one-time opportunity available only to you and your graduating class — and only during this season of graduation. Make your first gift by 31 October 2025 to be part of this meaningful legacy!
How it works
- Make a gift of at least $120 to the SMU Circle Fund — either as a one-time donation or by accumulating smaller monthly contributions. Your one-time gift or first monthly contribution must be made by 31 October 2025.
- Once your total contributions reach $120, we’ll be in touch within a month to collect your quote.
- Timeline:
- For quotes collected by 30 November 2025, plaques will be produced and installed approximately April 2026.
- For quotes collected after 30 November 2025, plaques will be produced and installed approximately April 2027. - We’ll share the location of your plaque and a photo with you once it’s been installed.
Plaque dimensions
90mm (length) x 35mm (height) x 1mm (width)
Quote guidelines
✔️Maximum 100 characters
✔️Use sentence case
✔️Keep the content secular and respectful
❌Quotes will not be accepted if they contain:
- Defamatory remarks against a person or an organisation
- Political content, or mention of any political party
- Explicit, vulgar, inflammatory, or threatening language
- References to unlawful activities or violence
- Product advertisements, marketing, or promotional content
- Instagram handles (personal or business)
- Only symbols or emoticons.
SMU reserves the right to decline any quotes deemed inappropriate.
Questions?
Contact the Annual Giving team for more information.
