Has your school's annual fund/alumni contacted you?

[chideltjen]

I don't live at the home that all my school records went to so I don't get phone calls from my college alumni association. I DO recieve emails and letters from time to time from my high school though. Now, my high school is private and cost more per year than my entire college education. Do you think I would be handing them more money. NOPE!

[Peaches-n-Cream]

A college friend and her husband donated enough money to name a part of a building after them. That was cool. We didn't keep in touch, but I guess that they are very successful.

[Cluey]

I give money. I use to give more, but I figure every little bit helps.

[APhi Sailorgirl]

Originally posted by DeltaSigStan
Well, our SCG is a huge sign overlooking the freeway saying 'Welcomne to SDSU", something we'eve never had....is THAT ok?

Yeah that's cool, but does campus need a chiming clock or in my class' case money for a scholarship fund that is not even financially based?

At least the class of 2003 was smart, they gave money so our library could get books.

(FYI, the budget cuts in VA were toward operating stuff, so they claim we have the money for all these buildings, great, but an empty building wont do me much good and yes we have people moving into dorms that do not have furnture.)

[winneythepooh7]

I've been contacted, however, I never donated because I was a broke Graduate student. I will give in the future but right now I need to pay off a credit card bill and a loan my dad took out for me. I have given the annual Alumna dues each year to my GLO and in the future I plan to give a whole lot more. I'd rather the $$$ go to my organization then the school itself because I feel more confident someone would be getting $$$ who needs it from the sorority. Schools are pretty sketchy when it comes to what they do with alum donations. My ex went to Cardozo Law School in Manhattan and there was a big thing there that the alum's donations were going to Yeshiva University and NOT to incoming students of the law school. Just my 2-cents.

[KillarneyRose]

When students call me for donations, I am always polite to them because I don't think of them in the same vein as I do telemarketers. They're Pitt people; how could I be mean to them???

But I never donate. Never, ever, ever.

My senior year, someone at Pitt was convinced that I owed one cent that I hadn't paid. It's not a misprint; I'm talking about one cent. A penny! I was harassed for an entire semester about this penny; They even Fed-Ex'd a bill to my mom's house. I would like to add that I did not owe this penny; I showed them proof that I did not owe this penny, but still they continued to harangue me for the freakin' penny!

I figure if Pitt could use so many manhours and mailing fees then they certainly don't need any of my money!

PS Eventually, I finished my last final and headed straight to the cashier's office where I wrote a check for the penny (and made damn sure I got a receipt!). By that time I just wanted to get out of Dodge.

[cash78mere]

i get these pretty little mailings like 4 times a year full of pictures and facts and blah blah blah. i throw them out. i paid upwards of $80,000 for my college. and i'll be paying it off for years to come. i was offered very little financial aid (although my tuition practically should have been covered because my parents earn close to nothing). i resent seeing the smiling faces of people who donated thousands already from my graduating class (2000). you know what? they're rich! they were rich while we were in college and they're still rich now! so as long as my college continues to paste their faces on the website and mailings as being so dedicated to the school for giving all this money, i refuse to contribute. put some regular people on there for once. i think my $80,000 plus interest is enough of a donation to the school.

[astroAPhi]

Originally posted by DeltaSigStan
Well, our SCG is a huge sign overlooking the freeway saying 'Welcomne to SDSU", something we'eve never had....is THAT ok?

Now that is cool, and useful.

Is it misspelled though?

[GeekyPenguin]

This, my friends, may be the topping on the cake. I attended a state school we will refer to as Cow College for two years. After transferring out of Cow College, my boyfriend, who was an alumni of Cow College, passed away. I contacted Cow College in regards to doing a memorial of some sort - nobody at Cow College ever got back to me about this. His fraternity ended up setting up a scholarship, but this isn't what really cheeves me off - it's that Cow College has since called me 4 times for money. I didn't get one red cent of financial aid when I went there despite the fact that I had the highest ACT score this school had EVER gotten, I didn't graduate from there, they were mean to me, and now that? Nuh uh.

Marquette calls my mom all the time, and she sweetly tells them that when she's done paying out the butt for me, maybe they can have $5.

[DeltaSigStan]

Originally posted by astroAPhi
Now that is cool, and useful.

Is it misspelled though?

oops...

[Munchkin03]

I donate. I figure since Brown gave me 4 fun years, a stellar education, and some decent career connections, I can give them $20 a year. Once, they lost the check for tuition (they got my last name messed up), but they took care of it rather quickly.

My parents also donate. They saw how happy I was at Brown, and how happy our older alumni friends are. I don't think they'll ever have a building named after them, but they're consistent donors.

Now, when some little kid from Columbia calls in a few years, I won't donate.

I get contacted for donations and i donate here and there. They found out i had a child before i could announce it they were hitting me up for donations.


I figure i am a member of the Arkansas alum association and my $40 a yr goes to something let alone the other amt i send yrly.

[tnxbutterfly]

I get mailings for the LA Tech Alum Association once in a while. I haven't joined just yet. I haven't given them money but if they ask nicely, I will

Now LSU, they are not getting a dime from me. Even if I go there for grad school and get my M.L.I.S, they are still not getting a cent from me

[ZTAMich]

I donated a little bit of money to the Moravian College fund. I gave more to Zeta's Foundation. Zeta made my experience at college what it was so I feel like I owe them more $$.
both places sent me address lables to thank me for my gift

[bluefish81]

My school did the Senior Gift thing too. I honestly don't even remember what it was. I have not been getting the phone calls (yet), they're still calling my parents house. Which is just as well, since then they ask my dad (he's also an alum) and he donates. They do, however, send me emails.

My chapter has a scholarship fund set up through the ISU Foundation, so I can donate toward that cause and even get matching contributions from my work.