From factiva, facts for personal notes.
- NUS has average of 1000 applicants for bursary but only 130 actually get it (2005)
- It launched the Annual Giving drive in 2005, to reach out to alumni for donations. this is modelled after US universities
- 150,000 alumni as of 2005 (how come so little, if every year 7,000 grad. in 104 years that'd be more like 7 mil? even if some do remain overseas)
- 1.5mil is needed to support all needy students
- endowment plan and expendable plan; this 1.5mil above prob goes to endowment as a sustainable generation of bursary
- 40% of alumni in US donate, 1% for NUS -.-
- alumni involvement is around 15% in US
- NUS engaged a call centre to update particulars and to inform alumni about the annual giving program
- NTU does a similar way of calling up grads
- SMU's culture has grads pooling together money voluntarily as 'senior class gift', and WOM
- 2.5%, 4048 out of 162000 NUS alumni donated in 2008
- NTU: 4185/88200
- SMU: 560/1167
- actual amt: NUS(5mil), NTU(1.5mil), SMU(13k)
- no fond memories of place; no sense of attachment (is it because initiation/orientation itself was not comprehensive)
- no social calendar here? calendar of sporting events, formal dinners, parties
- compared with sec schools, sense of belonging stronger
- alumni felt only treated well before graduation to prime them for donation
- no inculcation of school spirit (hmm there are activities but do they prioritize or dare to take part for fear that playing and socializing will affect the all important CAP and the bell curve?)
- perception is changing, if school spirit is nurtured from early stages
- signs: NUS 2008@2005 - 36% vs 8% donate. 2.5% participation vs 0.5%
Questions:
- how come US education cost so much, 40k USD a year amounting to 160k for a grad, they still can raise so much money? 800 over mil USD by Stanford vs 5 mil SGD by NUS
- why can't just ask the top elites in the country to donate?
- have universities in SG really figured out how to inculcate the school spirit?
