Better Alumni Participation at Colgate University
Alumni participation takes many forms: gifts of time and talent through mentoring students, recruiting potential students, building Colgate’s reputation with opinion leaders in academia, the government, or the philanthropic community, to suggest a few.
It also takes the form of financial aid to the university. Everyone is feeling the effects of a tough economy and Colgate University and her benefactors are no exception.
When alumni believe that they have a voice in the future of the university, when the Trustees demonstrate how and why spending and pricing decisions are made and how those decisions reflect a vision for the school, it encourages alumni to dig a little deeper and give a little more.
This is true at other schools, such as Princeton and Dartmouth, where alumni elect some of the members of the Board of Trustees.
Open elections allow alumni to become partners in Colgate’s success.