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This Type Of Fundraising Would Solve All Our Needs
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tkgrrett
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RE: This Type Of Fundraising Would Solve All Our Needs
ehh... what they don't tell you is that their operating budget is over $3 billion/yr. Harvard's is $3.5 billion and they still have the worst athletic and gym facilities on earth. The more they raise, the more tuition goes up.
(This post was last modified: 02-20-2013 09:27 AM by tkgrrett.)
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RE: This Type Of Fundraising Would Solve All Our Needs
(02-20-2013 09:21 AM)tkgrrett Wrote: ehh... what they don't tell you is that their operating budget is over $3 billion/yr. Harvard's is $3.5 billion and they still have the worst athletic and gym facilities on earth.
Someone needs to tell those idiots they're throwing their money at the wrong projects.
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RE: This Type Of Fundraising Would Solve All Our Needs
I guess we could raise a billion too if the founders of Google were Memphis grads and Silicon Valley were in the heart of Desoto County.
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tkgrrett
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RE: This Type Of Fundraising Would Solve All Our Needs
(02-20-2013 09:27 AM)Original Sabretooth Wrote: (02-20-2013 09:21 AM)tkgrrett Wrote: ehh... what they don't tell you is that their operating budget is over $3 billion/yr. Harvard's is $3.5 billion and they still have the worst athletic and gym facilities on earth.
Someone needs to tell those idiots they're throwing their money at the wrong projects.
Well.. I mean, it definitely isn't increasing the quality of education or reducing tuition so might as well throw students some kind of bone before you split it amongst administrators.
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RE: This Type Of Fundraising Would Solve All Our Needs
Most people know this about Harvard, but I didn't realize the extent of it until I spent time talking to friend's son a few years ago. He said that there were guest speakers at many of his lectures - not just any guest speakers, but industry titans in every field imagineable.
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RE: This Type Of Fundraising Would Solve All Our Needs
"This type".....is not from the blue collar ranks... "which shows that elite institutions continue to grab a disproportionate share of donor dollars."
"In the 2012 fiscal year, roughly 3,500 U.S. colleges and universities raised $31 billion, 2.3 percent more than the previous year. The record was set in 2008 when schools took in $31.6 billion before fundraising dropped during the height of the financial crisis.
"We're climbing out of the doldrums," said survey director Ann Kaplan. "We haven't returned to the high point of 2008, but we're approaching it. I think you can say that about a lot of industries."
Topping the list was Stanford at $1.035 billion, followed by Harvard University at $650 million, Yale University at $544 million, the University of Southern California at $492 million and Columbia University at $490 million."
It's a worthy high bar, but on a different playing field. I suppose 'Dreamers, Thinkers, Doers' could be revamped and morph in to something like 'Visionaries, Radicals, Activists' or something more vital. Maybe some day....
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RE: This Type Of Fundraising Would Solve All Our Needs
The Big East needs to add Columbia and Harvard to capture the NY and Boston markets.
# snicker
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(02-20-2013 09:48 AM)Stammers Wrote: Most people know this about Harvard, but I didn't realize the extent of it until I spent time talking to friend's son a few years ago. He said that there were guest speakers at many of his lectures - not just any guest speakers, but industry titans in every field imagineable.
This is true. I did a project analyzing corporate takeovers at the b-school and the professor was able to get us interviews with the actual people involved in every takeover we studied.
Tuition costs still make me angry though.
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