(01-30-2014 05:19 PM)WColt45 Wrote:  

(01-30-2014 05:11 PM)michaelf Wrote:  

(01-28-2014 07:58 PM)72Tiger Wrote:  Latest figure tops $218 million. Up about 11% from last year.

Long way to go:

SMU 1.1B
Cincinnati 834k
Louisville 721k
Houston 578k
Rutgers 698k
Connecticut 302k
South Florida 312k
Temple 277k
Memphis 218k
Central Florida 121k

Source USNews

So we are less endowed than everyone else?? Figures... 9th grade gym class all over again.

It's getting bigger.

(01-30-2014 05:11 PM)michaelf Wrote:  

(01-28-2014 07:58 PM)72Tiger Wrote:  Latest figure tops $218 million. Up about 11% from last year.

Long way to go:

SMU 1.1B
Cincinnati 834k
Louisville 721k
Houston 578k
Rutgers 698k
Connecticut 302k
South Florida 312k
Temple 277k
Memphis 218k
Central Florida 121k

Source USNews

We need a medical school.

It's also lower because we have never kept up with our alums and never had an organized campaign for them to give back.

And we have never courted those alums who do well, not our business people or our sports stars.

Not like the Big Boys do.

Actually, Shirley Raines did a GREAT job in increasing the U of M's endowment fund. That said, our alumni relations are AWFUL and really need to be kick-started. Frankly, UC and UL are commuter schools like us (but it helps to have a medical school like UC has) and I really think we should be higher on the list. If anything, an on-campus ANYTHING would help - be it BB or FB. If graduates don't see the campus, they are much less likely to give back to the University.

(01-30-2014 05:47 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  Another nice residual we can thank Shirley for.

I don't admire someone because they managed to progress up the food chain and get themselves appointed to a cushy, lucrative, not terribly difficult job such as Univ president, in fact I resent them, but you're off base to blame her for this. Yes, maybe she should have focused more on it, but then so should several others before her.

(01-30-2014 11:57 PM)ddramone Wrote:  If anything, an on-campus ANYTHING would help - be it BB or FB. If graduates don't see the campus, they are much less likely to give back to the University.

The athletic facilities on the Park Avenue campus aren't "ON-campus" in the fullest-sense, but they aren't exactly "Off-campus" either. Very impressive additions and improvements now under-construction there with more to follow soon. Hopefully, that will help. I personally enjoy attending baseball and softball games there and might even begin watching some soccer and track in the future if they would wear the damned school colors instead of "Calipari/Winn/Nike Blue" and black (or white).

(01-30-2014 11:57 PM)ddramone Wrote:  Actually, Shirley Raines did a GREAT job in increasing the U of M's endowment fund.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the greatest increase ever was made during her presidency.

I remember a time in the nineties when both CBHS and MUS had a higher academic endowment than (what was at that time) Memphis State. The University has gotten more organized and more focused but DEFINITELY needs to become more aggressive in raising money for itself.

(01-31-2014 11:14 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(01-30-2014 11:57 PM)ddramone Wrote:  Actually, Shirley Raines did a GREAT job in increasing the U of M's endowment fund.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the greatest increase ever was made during her presidency.

I believe so.

The school has had such crappy leadership over the years, that it will take a long time to catch up. An 11% increase in tough times is phenomenal; and that is with a change in leadership that is less than 2 years old. It won't be easy, but an annual increase of 12% will double our endowment every 6 years. We have a higher ceiling than everywhere else, and good leadership should be able to achieve that.

(01-31-2014 12:06 PM)Stammers Wrote:  The school has had such crappy leadership over the years, that it will take a long time to catch up. An 11% increase in tough times is phenomenal; and that is with a change in leadership that is less than 2 years old. It won't be easy, but an annual increase of 12% will double our endowment every 6 years. We have a higher ceiling than everywhere else, and good leadership should be able to achieve that.

Leadership is only as good as the abilities and dedication of followers allow. There is much room for improvement at both ends. PRIDE is an important factor.

(01-31-2014 12:18 PM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(01-31-2014 12:06 PM)Stammers Wrote:  The school has had such crappy leadership over the years, that it will take a long time to catch up. An 11% increase in tough times is phenomenal; and that is with a change in leadership that is less than 2 years old. It won't be easy, but an annual increase of 12% will double our endowment every 6 years. We have a higher ceiling than everywhere else, and good leadership should be able to achieve that.

Leadership is only as good as the abilities and dedication of followers allow. There is much room for improvement at both ends. PRIDE is an important factor.

No it isn't.

Sounds like some of you "good fans" need to get to work and donate.