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MISSION STATEMENTS
(Everyone should have one, even if they don't mean anything)

My collegues and I have reviewed, with great interest, the Department Mission Statement.
Although well written, but rather verbose, we are having a problem with the terms ENGAGMENT and SERVICE, and the lack of a connection with the Alumni, without a functioning Alumni Association.

Soliciting money, in return for verbiage is hardly adequate.

One possible cause for this lack of direction, or mis-direction, was the combining of the fund raising function, and Alumni Relations.

We are in agreement, that if these responsibilities were seperated, and a Director of Alumni Relations was hired by President Dunn and the Alumni Board, reporting to the President and the Board, sanity and a functioning Alumni Association could be restored.
Further, the Alumni Board should author an Alumni Bill of Rights, to off-set this over emphasis on the solicitation of money under the guise of engagment and service to Alumni.

BTW, there are over 400 "hits" on this thread since my last posting.
I guess someone's reading this with a sense of interest and concern over what's NOT going on with engagment and service to Alumni.

What do you think?


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