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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2005
Director challenges alumni to support school
The ability of the La Follette School to attract top-notch faculty is due in part to support from alumni and friends. That support also helps us reach out to alumni through events such as the La Follette School Student Association’s reception in January.
Support the La Follette School
Donations can be made online, by credit card or by check.
Since 1969, the La Follette School and its precursors have sent more than 1,000 alumni into the world of governance. Because we are only 35 years old and because we were quite small when we began, we don’t have a large number of alumni of an age when people typically make substantial gifts to their universities. A mature social science department at Madison routinely secures $50,000 from a request like the one I am making to you now.
If each of our 1,000 alumni gave a minimum of $50, we could secure funds
at a level that would help us maintain our reputation. We think
we provide as good an education as any school in America. We need your help
if we are to continue training the best possible civil servants and policy
analysts.
Your donations to the school through the University of Wisconsin Foundation give us the resources and flexibility we need to put together attractive packages that let us recruit successfully in an increasingly competitive environment. We also use private funds to support student activities and summer internships in Washington for students who otherwise could not afford to go.
We want La Follette alumni to be proud of our accomplishments, and I challenge you to support the school’s mission with a gift of $50 or more.
— Donald A. Nichols
Director
Index to La Follette Notes spring 2005