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FACTORS THAT LEAD MILLENNIAL ALUMNI TO DONATE TO THEIR ALMA MATER
… alumni who donated financially to their alma mater and those who did not by reviewing data from the Alumni Attitude Survey (AAS). The data set was composed of 2,108 Millennial respondents and 1,110 as Generation X respondents. This study can help university foundation and alumni …
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For Alma Mater: Fighting for Change at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The contributions that Black Americans made towards advancing their own educational institutions have often been overlooked. These men and women were quite instrumental in developing, organizing and determining the future direction of their own schools. From 1920 to 1950, a shift in attitudes and …
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Alumni Characteristics that Predict Promoting and Donating to Alma Mater: Implications for Alumni Relations
… education. In addition, alumni support their alma maters by recruiting new students and promoting the institution to others. Understanding more about the attitudes which underlie the relationship between alumni and their alma maters provide insights useful to university and alumni relations in …
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Alma Mater? Lactation Rooms as a Case Study for Centering Place-making in the Quest for Inclusion on College Campuses
In the 2019-2020 school year, there are at least 30,000 pregnant students on U.S. university campuses who might need a place to pump or nurse while in school. National policies protect the need for time and space for employed lactators, but there are only suggested protections for space for …
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Factors influencing the level of financial support provided by former athletes from a NCAA Division I-A Football Championship Series (FCS) university to their alma mater
The purpose of this study was to determine factors that influence giving decisions of former athletes at a small regional university. A former athlete survey was developed and administrated to 769 former athletes who graduated from UT Martin between 1994 and 2015. The survey had 212 individual …
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Money, Power, Respect: Philanthropic Giving Of African American Alumni Of Predominately White Institutions
… American alumni and their Predominately white alma maters and how this relationship affects philanthropic giving to the institutions. In addition to exposing the stimulus for giving to their alma mater, the study will also explore the experiences of the alumni as undergraduates that motivated …
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A WALK THROUGH TRAUMA
… personal trauma connected to the closure of my alma mater but moves into sifting through layers of childhood trauma. The thesis is broken into sections that move back and forth between the present experience of walking, and shifting into past memories that surface because of the experience of …
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An analysis of the factors that motivate undergraduate alumni donors at University of the Pacific based on social exchange theory
… been cultivating their alumni to support their alma maters through annual and endowed gifts to provide the financial support to continue educating future generations of students. This study surveyed undergraduate alumni from the University of the Pacific through a voluntary questionnaire that …
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An Untapped Resource: Virginia Tech African American Alumni Engagement
… institutions, and their feelings toward their alma mater. Relationship management is the notion of public relations as the management of relationships between an organization and its key publics (Ledingham & Bruning, 2000). The relationships that an organization has with its publics can impact …
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Diagnóstico del manejo de los residuos sólidos comunes en las instalaciones de la Sede Central de la Universidad de El Salvador, en el Municipio y Departamento de San Salvador, en el periodo de Enero de 2014 a Marzo de 2016
… generados año con año en las instalaciones de la Alma Mater. Lo que traducido al manejo de residuos sólidos en el interior de la UES, podría ser un problema desde el punto de vista operativo y administrativo-financiero ya que los costos para su disposición sanitaria se elevan. En el interior de la …
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The Role of Institutional Relations with Alumni Major Donors in Evangelical Higher Education
… to God through one's church if not through one's alma mater. The case-study design of three Council of Christian College and University (CCCU) institutions generates descriptive data through interviews with both administrators and alumni and institutional communication materials and websites. Data …
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An examination of alumni engagement at Rowan University
… factors such as age, sex, income, spouse/partner alma mater, distance from the university, and reported engagement (c) determine if there was a significant relationship between undergraduate satisfaction and alumni engagement (d) investigate what would encourage selected alumni to be more engaged …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of Theodore Hesburgh's Fund-Raising Speeches for the University of Notre Dame
… the alumni not because the University is their alma mater, but because they are to serve the world on behalf of the University.</p> <p>2. He focuses outward on universals not inward on institutional needs. As the alumni disseminate established principles and values learned at the University of …
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Curricular reform of the study plan of Bachelor in English Teaching and its correspondence to students’ needs, Foreign Language Department, University of El Salvador year, 2014
… educational institutions, best known as the “Alma Mater” since the quality of its education is one of the highest in the country; however, some of the majors in this institution have not updated their curricular plans. This research is mainly focused on the Foreign Language Department of this …
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Innovation and Knowledge: An Explorative Study of Entrepreneurial Firms in Germany
… contacts maintained with the entrepreneur’s alma mater were found to be of salient relevance. We argued that science is organised in epistemic communities, which are built upon shared identities, and in which members share the same tacit and experiential knowledge, which is passed on through …
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Jack of All Trades : a symphonic poem for British brass band
… United Kingdom during the late 19th Century. My alma mater, James Madison University, has a brass band directed by Kevin Stees, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium. Having spent four years in the ensemble, I saw tremendous growth as a musician and equally as importantly, a human being. The ensemble …
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The Demographics, Psychographics, Reasons for Giving, and Reasons for Not Giving of Alumni Donors and Nondonors to Two Seventh-day Adventist Universities
… alumni-giving behavior to their Adventist alma mater.</p>
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Factors in the Undergraduate Experience that Influence Young Alumni Giving
… explain the variance in alumni giving to their alma mater within five years of graduating. I conducted a case study at a single institution and used Volkwein's (1989) model of giving coupled with data from the 2011 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) that captured alumni's demographic …
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Raymond Francis Dvorak: His life and career in music
… such as the Arm Wave during the singing of the Alma Mater at the UW-Madison, the invention of the Chief Illiniwek mascot for the University of Illinois, the utilization of group singing by the band from the field during football games, and the introduction of moving formations and the use of a …
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Analysis of the Attitude of the Constituents of Indonesia Union College Toward the Absence of Government Academic Recognition of the College
… among academic circles, to feel proud of their alma mater and of the degree/diploma they obtained from the college, and to find a job which is commensurate with the level of education they obtained from the college, (4) the college to increase and improve enrollment; to obtain better moral and …
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