[NU Sports] Alumni loyalty

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

The recent discussion in the papers about the size of Harvard's endowment and the ability it has to pay for tuition is it so chose to do so raised an interesting point.  Allegedly Harvard doesn't really care if the alums cough up some money.  If they do, it means Harvard has to listen to them.  Dartmouth is going through a similar fight because the wealthy alums want more say so about how Dartmouth is run and the  Dartmouth  administration and faculty don't want to hear about that.  Maybe there is a similar mind set at NU.  When Dr. Miller was President, he allegedly felt that getting individual alums to contribute wasn't cost effective and that it was better to go after a few major donors.  Maybe that is why NU doesn't do more with the NAA.

John DeGroat
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From: MHRJGScott at aol.com
> OK, time for my periodic rant about our alumni assn, the NAA is the worst  
> alumni assn at a major University (apologies to Allen Wolfson and other  listers 
> who work to promote the NAA). My ex-wife was director of Tulane's AA for  6 
> years so I know the business. Tulane was a lot like NU notwithstanding the  
> difference in latitude and attitude. Most AAs support their alumni clubs with  
> staff, cash and events, many tied to sports. Not NU. NU underfunds the NAA  
> because unlike any other U I know does not use the Alumni Assn to raise money,  
> dumb and dumber. Maybe NU thinks that the Chicago corporate community will fork  
> over a billion $ every now and then so Alumni loyalty is not important, I  
> don't know and will never understand it although I have asked those who should  
> have answers.
> 
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