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...follows from this that the gift is largely symbolic, and no one argues otherwise. But if it’s symbolic, and if it’s really a personal choice, why is that choice so pressured? Why does the University care about my symbolic gesture...
...argument is that the gift gets people into a habit of giving, so that they continue to donate after graduating. Another is that a high participation rate projects a sense of satisfaction among the students, inspiring alumni to give more. Neither argument holds water...
...don’t believe there is a correlation between Senior Gift and overall class giving in future years,” the Development Office spokesperson wrote, adding later, “We haven’t observed any direct correlation between senior giving and alumni giving, so we can’t say for sure how senior giving affects alumni giving...
...Dean Gross wrote to me. “It’s a nice way to say thanks for many wonderful opportunities. To give it a cost/benefit analysis seems to me to miss the point. A lot of people like making a gift to the next generation of students...
...Senior Gift Plus may have a catchy name, but it’s not the first campaign to contend with Senior Gift. In the past 10 years, alternative senior gift campaigns have supported causes ranging from the tenuring of more women and minorities to supporting the Cambridge Boys and Girls Club...