So, please define a great student vs. an unexceptional one. One could say that a top quality educational institution would inspire students to achieve great things and give back to their university and community.Originally Posted by HogDawg
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So, please define a great student vs. an unexceptional one. One could say that a top quality educational institution would inspire students to achieve great things and give back to their university and community.
I know a great many Tech grads who are extremely exceptional people and very successful in their fields who would never dream of sending a dollar to Tech. It all comes down to how you engage the students and make every aspect of campus life something they want to be involved in. Right now, I don’t want to go to a Tech football game because they have been boring for 9 years. Everything about them is blah. I can understand students finding ANYTHING else to do on game day. Nothing about Tech screams “the place to be AFTER class”. That is what I gather from the students am around every week.
Good post. So how does Tech engage more students to give back? It’s not a one size fits all recipe. The game day experience in football is terrible, basketball hasn’t been to the dance in a long while, the bowling team with little funding is producing results. The give more money and things will improve, is the same thing as saying if you paid me more I would do a better job…
Not being snarky, but if I knew the answer to engaging and keeping 2-3,000 graduates per year engaged over the long term, I wouldn’t be appraising houses. It’s difficult, but we have to be willing to pay good money to someone who knows how to do it.
This failure goes directly to the feet of the administration.....both the university as a whole and the athletic administration. The school admin has poisoned the well for making game-time fun for students, and they still don't engage alumni as they should. Epic failure IMO.
The first part of this quote really caught my eye = "...very successful in their fields who would never dream of sending a dollar to Tech". I just returned from visiting a Tech grad friend of mine. He was a good friend, only child, both parents passed, and basically didn't have a place to leave his $$$ (mid 60s). During one of our conversations as we were recounting old times, he said that he has willed his estate to Tech once he dies. I told him that we had thought about setting up a scholarship within our major and his response floored me. He said that Tech was NOT interested in that type of scholarship at all. Basically, all they were interested in was $$$ to the general scholarship fund. He had conversations about setting up scholarships within our major and there was no interest from Tech on that at all. They didn't even want to talk about it. All they wanted was the $$ to go to the general scholarship fund. He got the impression that if he wasn't going to will it to the general scholarship fund, then they weren't interested. This would have been within one of the majors within the Engineering program. Oh well............
No one works harder to turn down money than Tech, never seen anything like it
That is the other side of the coin for sure. And maybe that’s part of what turns off some of my acquaintances. If I can’t give money the way I want, then maybe I shouldn’t give it. I understand that.
It will take a team, one person can’t do it. We need home appraisers, engineers,teachers, ag business, forestry students to make it successful. It amazes me that a school of higher learning is not open or receptive to new/different viewpoints.
Was Les Guice actively advocating for this?
I agree it takes a team to brainstorm and implement good ideas. Are we willing to pay the $45-50,000 starting salary per position for the 3-4 person team it will take to get anyone even halfway committed to doing the job?
Yes
No
And for the most part never have. What effort has gone into it over the years has been uneven and shaky at best.
Music profs always told Mrs. Champ & I to donate a piano if we ever wanted to give back to the School of Performing Arts. They said they'd never actually see any cash donated to the program.
You know how the “elite thinkers” thought it was a good sales technique to use LTAC as a qualifier for baseball season tix (price gouging)? They’re planning to do that for football and the blue chair backs. The “elite thinkers” have zero clue about the product the are peddling.
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