(05-04-2020 10:14 AM)Somersetco Wrote: What UT also needs is alumnae reaching into their pockets,
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Coming back to my example: (yes I know these are long)
Presuming UT alums donate for the same reasons as Purdue alums, when they see potential return, not personal return but money well spent, they give. Most people who value their University because it was instrumental in getting them where they are in life are inherently people of service and giving.
When you start your speech with, "people deserve a Purdue education," you're going to get attention of the alums. When you finish your speech with plans for how you are going to extend that education to people who could not previously attain it, you're going to grab hearts.
Those efforts I described aren't succeeding because money rolled in. Money rolled in because people saw their personal values being put to work.
A couple other examples, which I've relayed here in the past.
Minority/First Gen GPA was a tad higher on average than overall, almost unheard of. That not being good enough, he decides Purdue is going to build a high school with the express goal of helping MORE lower economic kids become "Purdue ready." Being a true biz type, one year from idea to inception. No building to put it in? Not a barrier. Renovate a warehouse... There were no barriers to getting it done permitted. I was doubting when I saw the Admin wasn't being populated by people from education. They were non-profit fund raisers...
Nearly all the Freshman class became Sophmores. In the inner-city, that is unheard of. After one year, Indy asked them to build another school and they did. Money where your mouth is? The Pres himself started a college endowment for the graduates of that HS and alums are jumping on-board.
Still a work in progress. Could still fall on its face. In two years they'll have an idea when that initial Fr class matriculates.
Having confidence in the value of their diploma, Purdue borrowed an idea that had floated at a smaller school, of picking up the burden of student loans. The University makes the loan. Pay back is a % of the income. Smaller starting income, smaller loan payment. This lets your alums use their money to start life. As income increases, payment increases. The program has such positive response, Alums are now helping to fund it.
Every program is an investment of money with a planned return. New student demographics. More successful young alums.... Alums will invest in that.
He WAS a politician. Governor before Pence. But not a career politician. He was also CEO of Ely Lilly.
A UNIversity develops people who are meant to run the world. Why wait until they graduate before leveraging that synergy? A good biz person doesn't. A remotely functional education person shouldn't but they are ingrained in the way things have always been done. Our cliques way or the highway, no one else gets a vote. They are unsuccessful.
UT finds one whose goal is service, not moving up the educational rankings, whose goal is to build an entity that serves deep into the community, whose goal is to find those local diamonds, who has experience and success in recognizing, developing, integrating and leveraging talent; see what they got to say.
Another thing a really good biz person can do? Say all that in one paragraph, lol.
