Do you donate to your college alma mater? Why or why not?
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Originally Posted by Paying it Back, Not Forward
An analysis of 15 years of alumni giving at one unidentified private university affirms one widely held belief of fund-raisers and casts doubt on another.
Graduates who used loans to finance their undergraduate education were less likely to donate to the college, Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen wrote in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
That’s hardly shocking.
What surprised the researchers is that students who received scholarships -- and who campus fund-raisers have long thought would be eager to “pay it forward” to their beloved alma mater -- tended to donate less than their classmates who didn't need aid.
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