They've almost got a third of the $150 million they want to raise. How's ours coming? Wish we had the donors that they do.
So the Ole Miss Forward Together Campaign has raised $43 million in 9 weeks?
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It is pledges from an increase in seating donations. I think on the website it shows they have only raised 3 million in "big money donors". If they keep losing, their will be some that don't pay those pledges. Plus, that the CGA thing is for pledges for the next 5 or 10 years....the rest is going to be much harder to raise.
nothing more than marketing... It's not cash right now and a lot of it is projecting season ticket renewals at higher levels over a number of years
a slew of doctors among your alumni plus a number of rich lawyers some of whom made a killing off of all the state wide tobacco lawsuits a few years back.
It is the running joke that OM folks make more.
If you listen in on The Spirit, you will find that they envy us for our big money alumni. Seals, Bryan, Maize, Peavy, Grissom, etc... I don't think that Grissom has done anything sizeable and neither has Peavy, but the others are huge.
Football wins and losses are WAY more important to their average fan however so when it comes to raising money for athletics, they beat us as a whole.
If you listen in on The Spirit, you will find that they envy us for our big money alumni. Seals, Bryan, Maize, Peavy, Grissom, etc... I don't think that Grissom has done anything sizeable and neither has Peavy, but the others are huge.
Football wins and losses are WAY more important to their average fan however so when it comes to raising money for athletics, they beat us as a whole.
Someone posted the number of MSU enrolled med school students vs. UM and if I remember correctly, there are more from MSU.
Lawyers were heavily skewed toward UM>
Lawyers were heavily skewed toward UM>
and I'd like to know where you guys get this. I know my class has more Ole Miss grads and the year below me has more Ole Miss grads. I don't doubt that at one time perhaps there were more State grads, but I know it's not a yearly occurrence. It doesn't really matter though, the best school in the state for preparing someone for med school isn't Ole Miss or State.
We do have more students in med school... at least that's what they are telling our students at orientation.<div>
</div><div>And Mississippi College does have a great program but our Biological Engineering program is hands down the best in the state for preparing students.If you get through thiscurriculum... the acceptance rates are reallyastronomical. Critical thinking skills play a huge part in getting accepted.</div>
</div><div>And Mississippi College does have a great program but our Biological Engineering program is hands down the best in the state for preparing students.If you get through thiscurriculum... the acceptance rates are reallyastronomical. Critical thinking skills play a huge part in getting accepted.</div>
I know for a fact the 2014 and 2015 classes have more students from Ole Miss. Like I said it doesn't really matter where you graduated. I know very talented, intelligent, and competent people from State, Ole Miss, MC, Tougaloo, etc.. that are in my class. I won't argue that State's bioengineering program isn't a good program for preparing you for med school. I do know that no other program matches MC in offering classes (like Gross anatomy) that prepare students for med school.
The people I knew at State well that went to medical school didn't go to UMC. For that matter, most of the people I knew well at State that went to law school didn't go to Ole Miss or MC.</p>
And for the record, I think UMC should be counted as part of UM's attendance numbers only if they are clearly differentiated, since it's a different campus. Likewise, I think MSU's Meridian campus should be counted only if clearly differentiated. Not that this has anything to do with the original post.
So it's not money that normally would've been there. It's something a lot of places are going to start doing, but it isn't something we've done in the past. Usually it was just your Loyalty Foundation giving and your ticket price.
Now for certain tickets, it requires the capital gift agreement.
It's probably a smart to tie most of it in that way. We have 2/3 of our money slated to come from CGAs.
That brings up the question, what is the status on your fundraiser? Is it all philanthropic?
Now for certain tickets, it requires the capital gift agreement.
It's probably a smart to tie most of it in that way. We have 2/3 of our money slated to come from CGAs.
That brings up the question, what is the status on your fundraiser? Is it all philanthropic?
Greece is bankrupt. And besides, I really don't believe they have that manyAlumni from there. Maybe Nashville, but not Greece.