Presents Miami-Dade Community College's Endowed Teaching Chair Program as a model for raising funds to enhance excellence in teaching. Traces the development of the project, the planning and organization of the fund-raising campaign, and methods used to motivate contributors. (DMM)

Describes instances in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in which charitable funds, collected mainly from pious Englishmen for the conversion and higher education of American Indians, were diverted to revitalize colonial enterprises, found Dartmouth College, and support financially strapped Harvard College and William and Mary College.…

Presents a variety of ideas and guidelines for day care directors on such topics as managing a procrastinator; improving annual reports; quality commandments; mini fiestas for children, parents, and teachers; selective reading for directors; morning exercise programs for the staff; and suggestions for successful fundraising. (BB)

Reports on a survey conducted by the Association of Schools in Journalism and Mass Communication's Committee on Journalism Education in the High School. Details the problems that the Journalism Education Association's Certification Commission plans to address concerning the availability of college journalism courses accessible to the high school…

Four major trends in corporate funding that may be seen as problems for higher education are outlined. Trends include corporate downsizing, decreased corporate giving, fewer one-time gifts, and increased emphasis on elementary secondary education. Specific examples are given of institutions turning these potentially negative trends into…

Discussion of private fund raising by public libraries focuses on a survey of public library directors that was conducted to obtain information about successful fund-raising strategies. Highlights include uses of money raised; identifying funding sources and prospects; examples of successful activities; and gift policies. (Contains four…

Four common services offered by college alumni associations for their alumni (credit cards, telephone services, mortgages, and insurance) can provide benefits to alumni while they raise money for the institution. Considerations in planning such services include what products to offer, choice of company, customer service standards, end-of-contract…

A directory lists computer software vendors offering software useful in administering college alumni and development programs. Listings include client/server system vendors and minicomputer and mainframe system vendors. Each listing contains the vendor name and address, contact person, software title(s), cost, hardware requirements, and client…

Public colleges and universities have been enjoying increased success in private fund raising, including some of the largest gifts ever made to higher education. Public institution officials worry that lawmakers may decrease state support as a result. Some private colleges worry that public institutions are taking too big a share of limited…

College development administrators are wise to make special efforts to keep their best contact staff, those who have significant contact with major gift prospects. However, those officers are likely to be recruited away. When they do leave, a structured transition is best for all parties. (MSE)

Trends in college fund raising are identified in three areas: (1) in campaign design, goals are bigger and campaigns longer; (2) demographics of donors and volunteers have changed, with donors more skeptical, less generous, and harder to find and volunteers more scarce; and (3) government and corporate contributions are critical. (MSE)

Increasingly, colleges are using new technologies, often expensive, to improve fund-raising capacity among small-scale donors. Techniques include computerized screening of prospective donors based on personal information, automatic dialing and phone-bank worker training, and sophisticated direct-mail tactics. Concern about privacy and loss of the…

College alumni editors can cooperate with development officers without compromising their professional principles by concentrating on publication quality, encouraging reader interaction and involvement, publishing research only when of broad interest and rewritten for the audience, supporting fund raising with legitimate news stories and features,…

Arguments for and against formal alumni chapters are outlined. Pros include increased membership, better leadership, and strengthened development potential; cost effectiveness is possible. Cons include direct and indirect costs; informal alumni structures are seen as equally effective. (MSE)

Examines decentralization of the development function in research universities and the impact decentralization has on the balance of power among university academic leaders; the ability of universities to set their own priorities; the communication between academic units and the central development office; and the relationship between faculty and…