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Also know someone that works at a large university in alumni relations. Their department doesn't pay great, but the bar for performance is so low.
by throwaway6734 4y ago
Also know someone that works at a large university in alumni relations. Their department doesn't pay great, but the bar for performance is so low.
- prepend 4y agoFor my family member the salary isn’t huge, I think like $40k so the whole department is probably less than $500k/year including overhead and whatnot. My assumption was if they are spending stupid money on this they are likely spending stupid money on many other things.
- CydeWeys 4y ago$500k/yr spent on fundraising does not remotely sound like a stupid use of money to me?
- xyzzyz 4y agoThat depends on what the ROI is.
- prepend 4y agoIt’s stupid because there are no alumni donations for this school. They are nowhere near breaking even and won’t because there just aren’t many alumni. The problem is that these aren’t efficient dollars anyway. Spending $500k to net $500k is not a good return. Schools should focus on better returns, like teaching and research.