The Survey of College Offices of Institutional Advancement Or Fundraising
The Survey of College Offices of Institutional Advancement Or Fundraising

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Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1574400924

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This report looks closely at the management and fundraising activities of college offices of institutional advancement or their equivalent. Survey participants rate the fundraising methods most useful to them, including brick campaigns, facility naming campaigns, telethons, auctions, and capital campaigns, among others.The report offers hard data on spending on direct mail, telephone solicitation and other fundraising methods, as well as benchmarking data on advancement office funding, personnel, office space, use of consultants and budgets. The study also offers data on spending on rewards for donors, donor outreach and other facets of college fundraising. Survey participants relate what they do on their own, what they outsource, how often they use campaign consultants, and what kind of consultants that they use - as well as revealing their future plans for use of them. Nearly 400 tables of data in this 140-page report are broken out by value of endowment, enrollment size, type of college and public/private status of the college.

The Survey of College Offices of Advancement or Fundraising, 2013 Edition
The Survey of College Offices of Advancement or Fundraising, 2013 Edition

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1574402358

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This 220+ page report gives detailed data on institutional advancement or fundraising offices in higher education, including coverage of budgets, staffing, office space and salaries, favored fundraising techniques, and the overall thrust and dimensions of the fundraising effort, including data on live auctions, telethons, bequests, raffles, facility-naming gifts, the annual fund campaign and other efforts. The study includes details on the number of pieces mailed in direct mail efforts, views on the usefulness of blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other internet tools for college fundraising, and precise information on the total cost structure for fundraising efforts. In addition the report covers open rates on email campaigns, use of merit-based pay, use of fundraising consultants and related spending, sources of funding for the advancement office, means of rewarding or incentivizing donors, trends in raising money from faculty and staff and more.

Institutional Advancement
Institutional Advancement

Author: E. Proper

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-04

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1137374284

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Institutional Advancement comprehensively reviews and evaluates the published empirical research on advancement in higher education of the last 23 years, covering fundraising, alumni relations, public relations, marketing, and the role of institutional leadership in all of these.

Alumni Relations Benchmarks, 2013 Edition
Alumni Relations Benchmarks, 2013 Edition

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1574402226

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This 160-page report is based on a survey of 89 American colleges and universities and covers a broad range of issues of interest to alumni and advancement professionals including but not limited to: trends in staffing the alumni office, use of the alumni office's work time, alumni office budgets and priorities, governance of the alumni relations effort and level of cooperation among various administrative units and alumni organizations. The study provides highly detailed data on alumni participation rates in various kinds of alumni activities, including reunions, and a close look at alumni department budgets including salaries, travel, promotion, costs of alumni clubs and events. In addition, the report presents detailed data on alumni department revenues from credit card, insurance and other services for alumni, as well as alumni office spending on consulting and information services. Other areas covered include: means of fundraising from alumni, use of alumni surveys, percentage of alumni who attend various kinds of events and the percentage who give to the college, nature of links to alumni clubs, athletic booster clubs and other alumni-related organizations, use of direct mail, telephone solicitation, social media and email to connect with alumni, and the relative success of each method, the future of alumni publications and directories and many other issues of interest to college alumni and advancement staff of private alumni organizations and college departments that often deal with alumni such as advancement, marketing and athletics.

The International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories
The International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1574400908

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The study presents data from 56 institutional digital repositories from eleven countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, South Africa, India, Turkey and other countries. The 121-page study presents more than 200 tables of data and commentary and is based on data from higher education libraries and other institutions involved in institutional digital repository development. In more than 300 tables and associated commentary the report describes norms and benchmarks for budgets, software use, manpower needs and deployment, financing, usage, marketing and other facets of the managment of international digital repositories. The report helps to answer questions such as: who contributes to the repositories and on what terms? Who uses the repositories? What do they contain and how fast are they growing, in terms of content and end use? What measures have repositories used to gain faculty and other researcher participation? How successful have these methods been? How has the repository been marketed and cataloged? What has been the financial impact? Data is broken out by size and type of institution for easier benchmarking.

Survey of Alumni Surveys
Survey of Alumni Surveys

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 157440301X

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The report examines how college offices of alumni affairs, advancement and career services conduct surveys of alumni, with data presented separately for colleges at different enrollment levels, tuition levels, Carnegie class, and for public and private institutions. In addition, data is presented separately for offices of career services and offices of alumni services/advancement. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: how often do colleges survey their alumni? What kind or types of alumni are surveyed? What are the response rates? Do response rates differ by type of alumni? If so, by how much have they changed? How are alumni reached? Through phone, mail, email or online survey vehicles? What measures are taken to increase response rates? How long are the surveys? What kinds of questions are asked? Have the surveys changed in recent years? Have particular topics become more or less popular? What has been the impact of consortia or partnership approaches to alumni surveying? What has been the impact on alumni surveying of the proposed Obama Administration measures to tie higher education funding to demonstrable career results for alumni? What is done with alumni survey data? Which departments at the college request it the most? Which departments do their own alumni surveying or contribute questions to the alumni surveys conducted by other departments?

College Alumni Relations Benchmarks
College Alumni Relations Benchmarks

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Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1574400886

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This report gives critical data about the alumni relations efforts of North American colleges. In more than 115 pages and 400 tables present hard data on alumni affairs office budgets, marketing expenditures, use of print publications and the internet, directory building and fundraising activities, among other topics. The report, based on data from 60 colleges, gives the end user highly specific benchmarking data such as the percentage of alumni that participate in reunions, earning from insurance plans and credit cards offered to alumni, spending on promotional materials for alumni clubs, percentage of alumni for whom the college maintains a working email address, and hundreds of other useful benchmarks and datapoints. Useful benchmarks include alumin office staff size, staff time spent on specific tasks, impact of the internet on alumni communications, relations with the Office of Institutional Advancement, plans for the print directory and much much more. Data is broken out for public and private colleges and by size and type of college and by size of the overall alumni population.

Universities as Agencies
Universities as Agencies

Author: Tom Christensen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-04

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 3319927132

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This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use reputation management in relation to internal and external challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social embeddedness, relating to many external stakeholders and international markets of students, researchers and research projects. This implies global pressure to standardize, formalize and rationalize their internal organization. The book uses data from China, Norway and US to show how reputation symbols are used and balanced, based on their web pages. Further, it uses extensive data from US universities to show how their internal organization structure is developing over time, related to three types of units/positions - development, diversity and legal offices and roles.

Handbook of Research on the Changing Role of College and University Leadership
Handbook of Research on the Changing Role of College and University Leadership

Author: Miller, Michael T.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2021-06-04

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1799865614

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Higher education has changed significantly over the past 50 years, and the individuals who provide leadership for these institutions has similarly changed. The pathway to the college presidency, once the domain of academic administration, has diversified as an increasing number of development officers, student affairs and enrollment management professionals, and even politicians have become common in the role. It is important to understand who the presidents are in the current environment and the challenges they face. Challenges such as dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, enrollment shortfalls, Title IX, and athletic scandals have risen to the forefront and have contributed to the issues and role of college and university leadership. The Handbook of Research on the Changing Role of College and University Leadership provides important research on the topic of college and university leadership, especially focusing on the changing role of the college president. The chapters discuss college leadership as it is now and how it will evolve into the future. Topics included are the role of the president at various types of universities, their involvement within university functions and activities, and the duties they must carry out and challenges they face. This book is ideal for professionals and researchers working in higher education, including faculty members who specialize in education, public administration, the social sciences, and management, along with teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in college and university leadership and how this role is transforming.

Alumni Relations Benchmarks, 2014-15 Edition
Alumni Relations Benchmarks, 2014-15 Edition

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2014-07-07

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1574402943

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The study presents detailed benchmarking data on alumni relations from 55 North American colleges. The 200+ page study covers fundraising and outreach strategies, alumni office staffing and budget trends, analysis of alumni affairs staff time use, use of social media and other marketing and outreach vehicles, relations with alumni clubs, spending on consulting, travel, telephone solicitation, and direct mail, and much much more. The report also gives highly specific data on participation rates in various kinds of alumni reunions and overall participation in the alumni association, among other data points. Data is broken out for public and private colleges, and by enrollment level, general Carnegie Class and annual tuition charged, to enable more precise benchmarking.