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When does the campaign wrap? What's the impact on the endowment? I'm no expert, but that doesn't seem like a lot of endowed faculty positions, is it?

It'd be nice if we could hit $1 billion, but that doesn't seem likely if this thing wraps in 2013.

RE Tycoon wrote:When does the campaign wrap? What's the impact on the endowment? I'm no expert, but that doesn't seem like a lot of endowed faculty positions, is it?

It'd be nice if we could hit $1 billion, but that doesn't seem likely if this thing wraps in 2013.

http://www.smu.edu/SecondCentury/CampaignOverview

Campaign Goals

Financial Goal: $750 Million by 2015
Yearly Alumni Participation Goal: 25% by 2015
Alumni Participation Goal: 50% by 2015

it will go to 2015 regardless - so expect an increase in the goal. i think that happened twice last time. would like to see a bit more endowment going forward and less bricks - we need to get closer to 2B in order to move up where we want to be.

CalallenStang wrote:

Campaign Goals

Financial Goal: $750 Million by 2015
Yearly Alumni Participation Goal: 25% by 2015
Alumni Participation Goal: 50% by 2015

Now I know why SMU hasn't given up on calling me, despite me screening their calls for two years now.

BigT3x wrote:

CalallenStang wrote:

Campaign Goals

Financial Goal: $750 Million by 2015
Yearly Alumni Participation Goal: 25% by 2015
Alumni Participation Goal: 50% by 2015

Now I know why SMU hasn't given up on calling me, despite me screening their calls for two years now.

You should give, even if it's only $5. Every alum that donates helps improve our university ranking (seriously - alumni giving rate is a metric in the US News and World Report rankings)

Plus I found that they stopped calling after I gave

Send at least 15 bucks...costs smu about 10 bucks for processing but cal is right, percentage of alumni giving is a big metric in determining rankings. Our low rate of giving dings us 10 spots in the rankings......

friarwolf wrote:Send at least 15 bucks...costs smu about 10 bucks for processing but cal is right, percentage of alumni giving is a big metric in determining rankings. Our low rate of giving dings us 10 spots in the rankings......

I don't care if they lose money, I just want them to stop calling. They got 70k tuition money out of me just a few years ago. Also worked as a landscaping indentured servant for a while because of the SMU PD busting me. I don't owe SMU [deleted].

friarwolf wrote:Send at least 15 bucks...costs smu about 10 bucks for processing but cal is right, percentage of alumni giving is a big metric in determining rankings. Our low rate of giving dings us 10 spots in the rankings......

Why does it cost us so much to process giving? We need to get that fixed

Big T3x - it's people like you that are dragging down the value of an SMU degree by keeping us so low in the rankings. Give something.

CalallenStang wrote: Big T3x - it's people like you that are dragging down the value of an SMU degree by keeping us so low in the rankings. Give something.

How much did you donate your first two years out of undergrad? Did SMU call you nonstop to get that donation? What was the tuition when you graduated?

BigT3x wrote:

CalallenStang wrote: Big T3x - it's people like you that are dragging down the value of an SMU degree by keeping us so low in the rankings. Give something.

How much did you donate your first two years out of undergrad? Did SMU call you nonstop to get that donation? What was the tuition when you graduated?

I'm a recent grad (two years out right now). Tuition was $33,000/year (give or take) my last year. I donated $100/year (split among different funds that I wanted to see receive the money). They called me nonstop and I screened the calls because I prefer to give online. Once I gave the calls stopped.

I would have given more than I did but it's difficult to do so on a grad student's budget

just give 20 bucks - its a private school and depends on donations - also that ranking thing is a big deal - i give something to SMU every year to help with that. some years its 20 bucks - some years it has been a lot more - but it is a great way to show the school means something to you and you value your degree.

Question---on how giving counts on ranking. Let's say you are a parent, friend, etc and give in the alum's name (indicated in spot for name other than donor). Does it count in the rankings or does it only count if the money itself is given by the alum?

CalallenStang wrote:

friarwolf wrote:Send at least 15 bucks...costs smu about 10 bucks for processing but cal is right, percentage of alumni giving is a big metric in determining rankings. Our low rate of giving dings us 10 spots in the rankings......

Why does it cost us so much to process giving? We need to get that fixed

Big T3x - it's people like you that are dragging down the value of an SMU degree by keeping us so low in the rankings. Give something.

Credit card companies charge a fee to process, you gotta pay people to open, sort, process envelopes with checks inside - that kind of stuff..........