In the 2022-23 academic year, around 30% of these schools' alumni donated, compared to the 8% national average, according to data collected by U.S. News & World Report.
Americans’ loss of faith in higher ed doesn't affect your alumni’s support of you. Institution-specific loyalty is great news for development offices and higher ed in general.
Richard and Mary McMahan gave the DeLand-based university $15.4 million. Mary left the gift to the school following her death on June 23. The gift will be split to benefit the Richard and Mary McMahan Scholarship for Volusia County students and serve as an endowment for the School of Music. Read more from WFTV 9.
Eight months in, the University of St. Thomas' president discusses cultivating the mind, body and spirit of America's "loneliest age cohort" while delivering "world-class employment outcomes."
West Virginia's governor is honored to play a part in building Marshall University's new baseball stadium, but one official believes he is "grossly" misappropriating a huge chunk of COVID-related emergency funding to do so—and calling for a federal investigation.
As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money, and EAB senior director Dr. R. Fleming Puckett believes that quitting philanthropy efforts in times of crisis will prove more costly than fueling schools' "revenue growth engine" with finances and resources.
Charitable giving to colleges and universities totaled a record $59.5 billion in fiscal year 2022—representing a 12.5% increase, the largest bump in higher ed philanthropy in more than two decades, according to new data from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. It’s also the most, in dollar terms, that’s ever been given, even […]
It can be frustrating to dedicate time, money, and effort to career services in higher education and see headlines like “Colleges get F for career prep” go viral. After all, this work with students is essential. More than half of college grads who received their degrees after 2009 indicate they visited their career services office […]
More than $8.5 million was raised by higher education institutions, with nearly 250 institutions receiving 30 or more donations in the span of one day.
