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Direct linkNaccarato, Shawn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
A historic period of state divestment in public higher education, exacerbated by the "Great Recession" and attendant financial repercussions, has significantly altered public higher education financing. The most significant impact has been cost shift from the state to students via increasing tuition rates. These changes threaten student…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Alumni, Donors, Private Financial Support
Download full textNeal, Anne D.; Poliakoff, Michael B. – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2011
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for donors on how to target their giving, with profiles of successful gifts. American philanthropists long have been generous in their support of colleges and universities. But donors do not always find the results they envisioned for their generosity and good intentions. ACTA has responded by…
Descriptors: Donors, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Endowment Funds
Wastyn, M. Linda – International Journal of Educational Advancement, 2009
This project explores why non-donors do not give to their alma mater by interviewing 12 non-donors for an in-depth examination of their decision-making processes. The Van Slyke and Brooks (2005) model of alumni giving provides the conceptual framework. This study concludes that where donors and non-donors differ is in the ways in which they…
Descriptors: Donors, Alumni, Interviews, Motivation
Woolbright, Cynthia; Martin, Maria – CURRENTS, 2010
Sometimes, the key to solving an old problem is a fresh perspective. This was the case for the annual fund for The Catholic University of America (CUA), which underwent a transformation that nearly doubled the fund between 2004 and 2008. In 2004-05, the annual giving program at CUA raised $454,789 in unrestricted gifts from 1,760 donors. By…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Church Related Colleges, Catholic Schools, Fund Raising
Peer reviewedJones, W. T. – Educational Record, 1985
The acrimonious disagreement over investment in South Africa is one sign of the collapse of the consensus on the role of a trustee. Some critics hold that trustees are not definers of the institution's good but merely the instruments by which the public's view of that good is carried out. (MLW)
Descriptors: Alumni, Change, College Administration, Decision Making
PDF pending restorationChitwood, James P. – 1990
Because financial stability of colleges and universities is threatened by level or decreased funding from all government sources, private resource development looms as a crucial element of community college operations in the next century. In order to determine the optimal private sources to target, Okaloosa-Walton Community College (OWCC), in…
Descriptors: Alumni, Community Colleges, Corporate Support, Decision Making
North East Association for Institutional Research. – 1988
The 1988 annual conference of the North East Association for Institutional Research focused on strategic choice. Selected papers included: "Fact Books: Paper-Based or Electronic?" (T. Gusler); "Electronic Factbooks" (J. Jacobsen); "A Comparative Analysis of Community College Administrators' and Adult Evening Credit Course…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Adult Learning, Alumni
