Top Ten Reasons to Support the Denison University Annual Fund
- Tuition only covers about 50 percent of the actual cost of educating a Denison student. The $4 million that the Annual Fund provides each year is one of the few sources of income bridging the gap between what tuition provides and the total operating budget. Generous alumni support strengthens the Denison experience for all students.
- More than 90 percent of all students will receive some type of financial aid this year. The College made this commitment responding to a substantial increased need for assistance by families, and to make Denison as competitive as possible in recruiting the most academically qualified students regardless of their financial circumstances. This investment has resulted in an improvement of the academic profile of incoming classes. However, the increase in financial aid is a strain to the College's resources.
- To enable Denison to retain and attract an outstanding faculty who inspire a passion for learning.
- Alumni giving serves as the measure by which corporations and foundations rate alumni involvement. This is a major consideration for these groups when making major gifts to colleges and universities.
- College guidebooks such as Barrons, Fiske, and U.S. News and World Report use alumni giving participation rates as the sole criterion to rate alumni satisfaction when completing overall institutional quality ratings. To move up in the rankings, and thus attract more good students, we must increase our alumni participation rate.
- Some of the areas that depend on support from annual gifts are: student leadership opportunities, innovative academic programs, student scholarships, faculty teaching and research, campus technology, intercollegiate athletics and club sports.
- Because it's effective: It would take an additional $80 million in the endowment, or an additional tuition charge of $1,952 per student, to support what Annual Fund gifts provide each year.
- To reaffirm your commitment to Denison and its mission.
- Benefits Denisonians of all eras: increasing Denison's stature as a college with a national reputation helps increase the value of all Denison diplomas.
- Because one student, educated at Denison, can positively affect the lives of thousands.
