MU officially joined the Billion Dollar Club on Friday with Chancellor Brady Deaton’s announcement that donations and gifts to the university have surpassed $1 billion in the university’s “For All We Call Mizzou” campaign.
The milestone makes MU one of about 20 public institutions in the country to have successfully completed such a campaign.
More than $200 million [...]
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“For All We Call Mizzou” hits $1 billion
Posted in Fundraising, tagged Billion Dollar Club, Chancellor Brady Deaton, Columbia Missourian, Emily Younker, For All We Call Mizzou, fundraisers, MU, University of Missouri-Columbia, utown on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Count Your Public Blessings
Posted in Financial aid, Fundraising, Miscellaneous, State funding on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Public universities are so big sometimes. They can be very daunting.
Sometimes I feel like just a number, and not necessarily a name.
Large lecture classes aren’t the best way to learn for me. And classes with teaching assistants aren’t always what I signed up for.
These are some of the types of statements I’ve heard both from [...]
Missouri leaders promote UM
Posted in Fundraising on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A group of Missouri leaders assembled in Columbia this weekend to discuss how they can promote the interests of the University of Missouri System throughout the state.
UM System President Gordon Lamb announced in August that he would assemble a group called The Missouri 100 to provide “support and enthusiasm” for the system’s four campuses. The [...]
Only $168 million more to go
Posted in Fundraising on November 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
MU continues to inch toward its goal of raising $1 billion by 2008. As of Sept. 30, the most recent month for which totals are available, MU had raised $832 million, which is $5 million more than the previous month, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Thirty American universities are now seeking to raise at least [...]
MU Business School gets new name
Posted in College of Business, Fundraising, tagged business, business school, True Manufacturing, Trulaske on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The MU Business School is now the Robert J. Trulaske Sr. College of Business after the school received a large donation from his widow, Geraldine Trulaske.
Laura Harris, the school’s media relations coordinator, said the family asked to keep the amount of the donation confidential.
Harris also said a name will enhance the school’s national reputation. About [...]
