Kudos to The top 10 HBCUs for Alumni Giving!
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Posted By: Will Moss on June 04, 2014 By Delece Smith-Barrow The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad school search. Financial contributions to colleges in the U.S. rose 9 percent in 2013, and alumni can take credit for much of that increase. Of the $33.8 billion donated to higher education institutions in 2013, 26.6 percent came from alumni, according to a report from the Council for Aid to Education. At many historically black colleges and universities, which were created to educate African-American students and are designated by the U.S. Department of Education, the average percentage of alumni giving hovers below 10 percent. But some black institutions have alumni who donate at a much higher rate, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 45 ranked institutions. At Claflin University, for example, 43 percent of alumni donated. It had the highest two-year average of alumni giving among historically black institutions during the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years. Other schools that also had high average alumni giving rates include Tuskegee University, which had 23 percent, and Fort Valley State University, with 17.2 percent. The average rate among all 10 schools with the highest average percentages was 23.1 percent. Albany State University had one of the lowest average percentages of alumni donations: 2.6 percent. Below is a list of the 10 colleges and universities with the highest two-year average percentage of alumni donors. Only schools that reported alumni giving data for both 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 were included. Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be numerically ranked, were not considered for this report.
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Will Moss
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Alumni participation in annual giving is extremely important. I am delighted the HBCU Connect has posted this article. However, we should not confuse total contributions with the percentage of alumni giving to their institutions annually. When you look at the actual amount of money raised for some of the institutions, you may have different outcome as to actual participation. For instance, for the 2012 CAE report (voluntary support of education survey edition) Tougaloo College was not listed, so my assumption was that they did not report or respond to the VSE survey. I also did not see where Livingstone College or Johnson C. Smith had reported via VSE in 2012. Claflin University is also NOT listed in the 2012 Edition... I have not looked at 2011 report, but I think I will look for it now. I also want to see who report their data in 2013 VSE report. The VSE Survey is important to submit information to because it holds institutions to the same standard as to the proper COUNTING in order to determine a more accurate alumni participation rate. Monday, June 23rd 2014 at 1:52PM |
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