Do successful college athletic programs stimulate additional applications from prospective students and greater contributions by alumni and other donors? And if so, is it likely that additional investment in such programs is a cost-effective way of increasing these benefits? In this paper I first consider these questions from a theoretical perspective that focuses on the economic incentives con...

The issue of increasing the effectiveness of alumni development and fund raising programs tc ensure quality in academic programs and campus life for the coming decade was examined. The study's primary purposes were to: (1) describe the development of a comprehensive decision support system for alumni and fund raising activities at one independent university--the University of Hartford, Connecti...

In recent years, subject to changes in the industrial structure, outward manufacturers, the unemployment rate has increased steadily, and the birth rate leads to domestic human structural imbalance, so that universities faced unprecedented challenges. Among the private university of science and technology is the most serious. The crisis probably be divided into the internal factors about school...

The Notre D am e Alumni A ssociation has nam ed th e recip ient of its D istin­ guished Student Award for 1987. Jennifer Lynn C raw ford, a physicspre-m ed m ajo r from A tlanta, G eorgia, w as nam ed the aw ard-w inner a fte r being selected from a field of 55 nom inations. The w inner of the aw ard is chosen on the basis of th ree c rite ria , accord ing to M aria Miceli, a ss is tan t d irec...

OBJECTIVE Reflecting on its role during apartheid, the University of Cape Town (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences undertook a study to explore the experiences of black alumni who trained in the period 1945 - 1994. DESIGN Seventy-five black alumni were selected through purposive and snowball recruitment, resulting in 52 face-to-face and 23 telephonic or postal interviews. RESULTS Experiences o...

President Norman Hacker man, released a statement last Monday announcing the Rice University Fund, established by tHte Rice Board of Governors as an annual source of unrestricted monies, will have as its first goal $1 million to be raised between now and June 30, 1971. The Rice Governors created the R.U.F. as a means of count( \ eracting the increasing effects of inflation and to maintain the U...

PURPOSE The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada undertook a review of its Clinician Investigator Program (CIP), 13 years after launching the program in response to shortages in clinical investigators. The primary study goals were to determine the outcomes, impact, strengths and weaknesses of CIP. METHODS Focus groups and telephone interviews with current and past program direct...