N.J. couple donates $20M to Notre Dame
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Rutgers has got to make this state proud. Make donating to Rutgers the thing to do.
Does anyone know if there are stats kept on school donations? Wondering where RU stands vs other Power 5 schools.
Maybe they thought RU already does a good job of recruiting low income students which would also explain the endowment!
This is our perennial catch 22. The best way to get donations is to have great athletics but you have to spend at least some money to achieve that, and our administrators continue to fail to do this.
We need a renovation of the RAC and a hoops practice facility BADLY. I just don't see it happening any time soon.
Get real people!!!!! The donor is a Notre Dame grad and has kids enrolled in the school. You all are reacting like this was a donation from an RU alum. ND and BC grads, Ivy grads, MIT, Stanford, Duke and Cal. Tech grads are all going to keep their alma maters in mind when they make donations, and the development offices at all those schools make sure of it.
There are 2 legitimate questions derived from this:
1. When are a few more RU grads going to step up and do the same for RU?, and
2. Why the SL delights in rubbing our collective faces in this?
There are 2 legitimate questions derived from this:
1. When are a few more RU grads going to step up and do the same for RU?, and
2. Why the SL delights in rubbing our collective faces in this?
Probably a good Irish Catholic family with ties to ND. Regardless where they may be from...NJ, Iowa, Ohio, etc at least they made a major donation to a worthwhile project. The parish priests are always working their magic! Just like many other faiths do for private religious affiliated schools it seems to produce results.
I don't know if that term will go away. It seems to be inbred into the culture at Rutgers. Every university has some elements of bureaucracy. But Rutgers students and alumni seem to cry "RU Screw" at every inconvenience, even when the student, not the university, is to blame. And ironically, when Rutgers tries to make things more effective and efficient, alumni complain about that too.
Generally, the big donations come from older people I believe. These are the individuals who have had very good careers and the time to make a lot of money. That means that if they grew up in NJ, they probably knew very little about Rutgers. I say this because as an older senior, I knew very little about RU all through HS, and I grew up in Bergen Co. If you are not immersed in the aura of a particular school, you really do not get attached to it. The vast majority of my HS graduating class went to well known schools, many of which were out of state.
Then you have the ones who did attend RU and it comes down to the experience they had as an undergrad. If they just plowed their way thru four years and left, my guess is that they will not be sending any checks later in life. I know people who graduated from Cornell and they are pretty much indoctrinated while they are there about the importance/responsibility of being a donor. I'm sure this is true about all of the other well known schools who have large endowments.
This process to success takes a long time to develop.
Then you have the ones who did attend RU and it comes down to the experience they had as an undergrad. If they just plowed their way thru four years and left, my guess is that they will not be sending any checks later in life. I know people who graduated from Cornell and they are pretty much indoctrinated while they are there about the importance/responsibility of being a donor. I'm sure this is true about all of the other well known schools who have large endowments.
This process to success takes a long time to develop.
Until the term "RU Screw" is no longer something considered commonplace by EVERYONE who has ever attended the university this will never happen for us.
Hello!
I agree. The last three weeks haven't done us any favors however.
Let's hope we turn a new page this Saturday with a win against Kansas, and at the end of the season with a real professional assessment of the the current state of the RU Football program and coaching staff.
Until the term "RU Screw" is no longer something considered commonplace by EVERYONE who has ever attended the university this will never happen for us.
See above.
Wow, the state of NJ would have to be awful generous. In Jan 2015, RU successfully finished a 5 year Billion dollar campaign. I would love to see NJ hand over a Billion dollar check to RU.
While our endowment lags behind other Big schools, and donations for Rutgers are not what we would want. THey are increasing, and we have had some big donors. Its a myth that nobody is donating to Rutgers.
Among the campaign’s highlights:
• More than $275 million was raised for students and learning.
• More than $130 million for campuses and facilities.
• An 85 percent surge in athletics giving over the past six months.
• A $40 million donation from an anonymous donor—the campaign’s largest gift.
That's about $200 million per year, and NJ state appropriations exceeded that in each of those 5 years. So you can imagine the difference when a major capital campaign is not under way.
The Golden Dome at ND draws wealthy donors while Rutgers has the ....
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Near the bottom I'm sure. We have never had a cash donation equal to $20M (and we've had few of the $5M or above variety)-and $20M isn't even that extraordinary anymore. Heck Montclair State just got $20M for their business school. I'm not sure that we've ever had a $2,000,000 gift to our B- school. We have never even had a $1M gift to RU Newark Law. Very sad.
The last three weeks were exclusively about the football program; there's a lot more going on at Rutgers than Scarlet Knight Football.
Sorry for being sarcastic, but a number of people here are making me doubt their ability to read. The husband is a Notre Dame graduate. Two of the couple's children are at Notre Dame. The surname sounds Irish. It's the perfect couple to give money to the Fighting Irish. This item does not imply *anything* about Rutgers, nor is it an attempt to "rub our faces in it." (We're pretty good at doing that ourselves!) The gift is big enough that it is newsworthy whether it's to Rutgers. Notre Dame, or the little Sisters of the Poor. You guys have incredibly thin skins.
My point is that Rutgers has never had a donation like that and that it's just another example of the competitive fundraising environment we find ourselves in, in this state. A lot of guys went to Wall Street from Rutgers in the 80's. Will we see equivalent donations?
What do you bet if this was a Wisconsin family or a New Orleans family, the family is connected to Wisky or LSU rather than ND and the money goes to the state U??
The constant drumbeat of negative news from NJ media and recurring clown show routines from Rutgers sure doesn't help eithe.
I know a few wealthy people that do not donate because they feel they pay so much in taxes that they are already donating. One couple make high 6 figures and they spoke about the high rates in income and sales tax. I know they give a fortune to autism and a few other things, so it's not greed.
What's the issue? They live in NJ but 1 is a ND alum & they have 2 kids at ND. Where'd u expect them to donate?
I read it & while I agree that our fundraising is bad, I don't see how this ND example is relevant, as they have no connection to Rutgers. If I lived in Wisconsin & I'm a Rutgers alum with 2 kids at Rutgers, then my donation is going to my alma mater, Rutgers, not the local state school where I reside.
Does the SL cover every $20 million donation to Princeton from a NJ alumnus donor? I'd say the SL is rubbing it in a little. Agree with the rest of your post.
Earlier this year a family from Ridgewood donated $5 million to endow the Women's Basketball Coach position. They were both ND Athletes and she was a basketball player . You would be surprised how many Olympic sport athletes are big donors at ND. They just received a $6 million donation for grandstands and locker rooms at the Track and Field Facility.
I don't think you're right about that. I 'm sure the S-L would cover a large contribution to Princeton from a NJ alumnus donor. When you blame the S-L, you're just shooting the messenger. The truth is that any newspaper would cover negatively the recent events at Rutgers.
This summer an alumnus donated $35 million which will be used in part to endow the Head Football Coaches position at ND. $10million was to endow the coaches position and $25 million for the new CrossRoads project that is the $400 million stadium project that includes academic facilities and a new student center built into the stadium structure.
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