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University honors college Presidential forum helps provide view of OSU's future
Craig Bidiman
Issue date: 1/23/08 Section: News
The OSU Foundation was represented by Shawn Scoville, campaign director for the OSU Foundation, who let it be known that Oregon State was the last Pac-10 school not to have a comprehensive fund-raising campaign.
"We would like more participation from students," Scoville said. "We rely a lot on the honors college students to help tell the story of the campaign."
Scoville went on to explain the funds of the campaign are continuously being drawn in from private donors.
Since their outing in October, the campaign has surfaced $81 million dollars, helping their running total exceed $386 million, over half way to their goal of $625 million.
Ray discussed the funding opportunities for individual departments.
"We get a lot of donations from non-alums, from people who just feel strongly about a certain department," Ray said.
"We do get some un-designated funds, not a lot, but the ones we do, we try to use them as properly as possible in areas that need the funding."
Ray furthered his discussion of his upcoming budget by outlining the area of central initiatives as an important element in the budget.
"This is something that benefits everyone," Ray said. "Everything starts in the middle, the centralized funds, the library, honors college and other student affairs."
A final point Ray touched on was concerning developing an enrollment scenario plan that would, if implemented correctly, bring up graduation rates and supply more upper division courses.
"Our goal is to find what our optimal student enrollment is with the given resource space we've inherited."
Craig Bidiman, senior reporter
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
"We would like more participation from students," Scoville said. "We rely a lot on the honors college students to help tell the story of the campaign."
Scoville went on to explain the funds of the campaign are continuously being drawn in from private donors.
Since their outing in October, the campaign has surfaced $81 million dollars, helping their running total exceed $386 million, over half way to their goal of $625 million.
Ray discussed the funding opportunities for individual departments.
"We get a lot of donations from non-alums, from people who just feel strongly about a certain department," Ray said.
"We do get some un-designated funds, not a lot, but the ones we do, we try to use them as properly as possible in areas that need the funding."
Ray furthered his discussion of his upcoming budget by outlining the area of central initiatives as an important element in the budget.
"This is something that benefits everyone," Ray said. "Everything starts in the middle, the centralized funds, the library, honors college and other student affairs."
A final point Ray touched on was concerning developing an enrollment scenario plan that would, if implemented correctly, bring up graduation rates and supply more upper division courses.
"Our goal is to find what our optimal student enrollment is with the given resource space we've inherited."
Craig Bidiman, senior reporter
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
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