SMU Receives Largest Donation In School History ($45M)

[rodrod5]

Why would we want to emphasize engineering and business when we can push world changing programs like Gender Studies? World Changers Shaped Here

World Changers TRANSFORMED Here would be a better motto for that

[NewAgeMustange]

The hard sciences neeeeeeed the money. Good lord both the chemistry and the biology labs need a redo. (only geology i was involved with also seemed like they could use the money) It would be great to see a dedicated research building in the future to expand the amount of undergraduates and graduates working on research.

[gostangs]

Friar - disagree - they have known they would bust 1b for a long time. You do campaigns like this with the coordination of a great number of regular donors - so you will see some hold back money coming in between now and year end - quite a bit of it I would guess.

The only goal now still in question is the percentage of giving goal - and we have basically 2 months to reach it. If you have not made a gift since June 1 it would be great if you could spend even 10 bucks to get on the "rolls" as a giver. We need to break 25% which we have never done.

probably preaching to the choir here....but worth a shot.

[PonyPower]

So is this gift in the form of cash of art? My favorite quote is the below:

"The gift helps SMU “compete with the very best arts and communications programs in the country,” Holland said. “We used to think of our competition as TCU and Baylor and UT, but now we think of Northwestern, and USC, and Oberlin and Boston University, much more of a national field, as being our competition.”

Great quote!

[NewAgeMustange]

Holland said. “We used to think of our competition as TCU and Baylor and UT, but now we think of Northwestern, and USC, and Oberlin and Boston University, much more of a national field, as being our competition.”

Just saw this, Oberlin... that's that college the pedophile hbo rapist calling person went to right. . . why did we just associate ourselves with them?

[CalallenStang]

Holland said. “We used to think of our competition as TCU and Baylor and UT, but now we think of Northwestern, and USC, and Oberlin and Boston University, much more of a national field, as being our competition.”

Just saw this, Oberlin... that's that college the pedophile hbo rapist calling person went to right. . . why did we just associate ourselves with them?

As far as arts schools go, Oberlin is a great school

[couch 'em]

O'Berlin. Irish mother, German father?

[CalallenStang]

O'Berlin. Irish mother, German father?

Yes

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Physics has enough money to find the God particle.

[blackoutpony]

Physics has enough money to find the God particle.

[SMU Section F]

Physics has enough money to find the God particle.

I feel like that damn commercial set back our science departments at least a decade... just [deleted] asinine.

[NewAgeMustange]

easily set us back. It would be great to see us advance that department.

[tristatecoog]

How many of the wealthiest alums are hard science grads? Are these departments typically underrepresented in large gifts? A&M has been beefing up its statistics program but I'm not sure if it's due to donations or internal resource allocations.

[smusic 00]

How many of the wealthiest alums are hard science grads? Are these departments typically underrepresented in large gifts? A&M has been beefing up its statistics program but I'm not sure if it's due to donations or internal resource allocations.

How many Meadows family actually went to SMU?

[smusportspage]

I personally know of at least two.