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Volume 60, Number 4 SUNY College of Technology at Farmingdale Week Ending October 6 /
Flambler E W S P A P E
Campaign For Farmingdale
A full scale Telefund is underway in the
Office of Development. The project, co-spon-sored
by the Farmingdale Foundation and the
Alumni Association, began on Sunday, Septem-ber
10, after many months of preparation. The
first two weeks of calling which is done by
student employees, resulted in $30,000in pledges.
The "Campaign For Farmingdale" is a
three year capital campaign with a goal of raising
$400,000 from members of the Alumni Associa-tion.
Farmingdale students are still being re-cruited
and trained for the calling sessions which
will continue through December 15. "They are
doing a terrific job and alumni relate positively to
them. Quite often they get into conversation on
the phone about the campus, faculty and curric-ula.
This is definitely beneficial to the college in
terms of public relations, and much more lucra-tive
than a direct mail campaign", stated Pat
Williams, director of alumni affairs and develop-ment.
The Telefund is coordinated on a daily
basis by Maureen Balen, administrative assistant
to the Foundation and assisted by Phyllis Kurz,
administrative assistant to the Alumni Associa-tion.
It is conducted Sunday through Thursday
evenings with approximately ten callers contact-ing
alumni all over the country.
Last year, Philanthropy Management,
Selecting Winning Numbers. Maureeb Bolen, phonathon Coordinator, conducts a training
session witti student caller William Moor.
Inc., a Manhattan based consultant firm, con-ducted
a test project to determine the feasibility
of implementing a major campaign. Of the 1900
alumni reached by phone. 334 pledged a total of
$103,600 over a three-year period. To date, over
$33,000 has been received. Based upon a 17 per
cent participation rate with the average pledge
being $310, the decision was made to implement
a full scale telephone outreach program using
PMI as an advisor.
Tuition Hikes Outrun Students' Resources (CPS)—Tuition increases during the 1980's
have easily outrun students' resources to pay for
school, the College Board said Sept. 5.
While tuition has rocketed 56 percent of
private four-year colleges and 30.2 percent at
public four-year campuses since 1980, the total
amount of student aid increased only 10.5 per-cent,
the New York-based group found.
Families, moreover, weren't earning that
much more money to use to make up the differ-ence.
After allowing for inflation, the College
Board figured average family disposable income
rose 16 percent during the same period.
Students returned to classes this fall to
find tuition had gone up again by an average of 5-
to-9 percent from a year ago.
The federal government's diminishing
role helped spur the tuition increases, the College
Board's report—called "Trends in Student Aid,
1980 to 1989"—indicated. Federal student aid
dropped from 83 percent of all grant and scholar-ship
money available to 75 percent this year.
At the same time, state aid grew only
from 5 percent to 6 percent of the help available.
Campuses thus had to increase the amount they
gave to students, from 12 to 19 percent of the aid
money used to pay for tuition.
"There is some question about whether
schools can continue to increase that aid
indefinitely,"said the College Board's Gwen-dolyn
Lewis. To offer more aid, she added,
schools would have to raise tuition even more
rapidly increasing student aid and keeping tui-tion
down "are directly in conflict."
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