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Wheeling Jesuit
« on: March 19, 2019, 02:32:34 PM »
It appears that one of our fellow Jesuit schools is in a serious financial crisis.  Wheeling Jesuit has declared a "financial exigency" and is fighting for survival.  I've heard that all scholarship athletes have been advised that their scholarships will not be renewed.

I've read plenty suggesting that there may be a lot of smaller schools closing in the coming decade or so.  I've had several friends and family members attend Wheeling, and a friend was on their BoT until a year or two ago.
 It'd be a shame if WJU has to close its doors, but it seems pretty widely accepted in academia that some schools are going to close.
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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2019, 05:53:26 PM »
It appears that one of our fellow Jesuit schools is in a serious financial crisis.  Wheeling Jesuit has declared a "financial exigency" and is fighting for survival.  I've heard that all scholarship athletes have been advised that their scholarships will not be renewed.

I've read plenty suggesting that there may be a lot of smaller schools closing in the coming decade or so.  I've had several friends and family members attend Wheeling, and a friend was on their BoT until a year or two ago.
 It'd be a shame if WJU has to close its doors, but it seems pretty widely accepted in academia that some schools are going to close.

One of the reasons why some of us are concerned we need to up our game a bit in terms of who we are attracting as students, because they become donors at some point.  I'd feel better having more and more dentists, lawyers, doctors, other professionals helping to foot the bills.  That isn't a popular opinion necessarily, but it should be a consideration as we look at plans for the next 25 to 50 years.
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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2019, 08:49:15 PM »
One of the reasons why some of us are concerned we need to up our game a bit in terms of who we are attracting as students, because they become donors at some point.  I'd feel better having more and more dentists, lawyers, doctors, other professionals helping to foot the bills.  That isn't a popular opinion necessarily, but it should be a consideration as we look at plans for the next 25 to 50 years.

Perhaps we should focus on getting the dentists, lawyers and doctors we already have to donate.
Have some patience, FFS.

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2019, 07:26:17 AM »
Perhaps we should focus on getting the dentists, lawyers and doctors we already have to donate.
or both

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2019, 09:01:36 AM »
Perhaps we should focus on getting the dentists, lawyers and doctors we already have to donate.

Sure, but also continue to expand the upper funnel, too.  In other words, do both.

"I hate everything about this job except the games, Everything. I don't even get affected anymore by the winning, by the ratings, those things. The trouble is, it will sound like an excuse because we've never won the national championship, but winning just isn't all that important to me.” Al McGuire

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2019, 10:01:09 AM »
Perhaps we should focus on getting the dentists, lawyers and doctors we already have to donate.

I'll admit, I don't support MU as generously as I'd like.  At present, I'm more actively supporting two other colleges and a wonderful Jesuit high school (with another college being added to the list in the fall).  I would think that happens a lot in higher education (i.e., a period when alumni support slows down while their kids are in college), but maybe I'm just cheap.
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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2019, 10:11:19 AM »
When I did fund raising for my Catholic High School I was suprised how little came from the so-called professionals.  We did much better from the lower classes, retired civil servants like former firemen.  Also from successful self made businessmen who we might call entrepreneurial types.   Construction contractors, trucking company operators, and successful single people significantly beat the Dr.'s, and Lawyers.  These universities go where the money is, the trick is to go where the heart is.  And the windfalls always come from unexpected places, God's will so to speak.

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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2019, 10:15:54 AM »
When I did fund raising for my Catholic High School I was suprised how little came from the so-called professionals.  We did much better from the lower classes, retired civil servants like former firemen.  Also from successful self made businessmen who we might call entrepreneurial types.   Construction contractors, trucking company operators, and successful single people significantly beat the Dr.'s, and Lawyers.  These universities go where the money is, the trick is to go where the heart is.  And the windfalls always come from unexpected places, God's will so to speak.


I would expect this at the high school level, curious of the same on the college level.

"I hate everything about this job except the games, Everything. I don't even get affected anymore by the winning, by the ratings, those things. The trouble is, it will sound like an excuse because we've never won the national championship, but winning just isn't all that important to me.” Al McGuire

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2019, 10:18:43 AM »
I do support Marquette and have for a lot of years. I do so primarily because I believe in what they're doing -- warts and all -- and believe that if we want to alleviate poverty and suffering, we do so through education.

As a nation, we talk about economic opportunity and about "bootstrapping" your way out of poverty. But you can't do it if the resources are not there. I was fortunate, as I noted in a post in response Disco Hippie, that I had parents who could and did sacrifice an awful lot to give me a college education. Their only ask was that I "pay it forward." Too many people in this country don't have that same opportunity I did.

That's where all of us come in, whether we contribute enough to have a professorial chair or a College of Journalism named after us or we give $25.00. There are entities out there who will match based on percentage of alumni who give (or at least there used to be). More importantly, the more who give, the more who become part of the solution.

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2019, 12:13:44 PM »

I would expect this at the high school level, curious of the same on the college level.

Yep.  The college of Nursing has gotten a couple of 7-figure donations from alums who were never wealthy (imagine how poorly nurses were paid in the mid-20th century), but lived conservatively and left a nice chunk of their estate to the school.

And they certainly weren't on the phone with Joe True every day demanding stuff in return.
Have some patience, FFS.

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2019, 12:44:14 PM »
Perhaps we should focus on getting the dentists, lawyers and doctors we already have to donate.

They're too busy sitting on scoop to donate
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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2019, 01:21:48 PM »
They're too busy sitting on scoop to donate

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2019, 03:22:25 PM »
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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2019, 03:38:03 PM »

I would expect this at the high school level, curious of the same on the college level.

I've given modest amounts over the years to my high school in response to donation requests in honor of people who meant a lot to me as a youngster.

I don't give to them regularly though because they had some really serious problems when I was there that were swept under the rug and hope we would not notice the big wad in the middle of the floor.

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« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2019, 02:26:00 PM »
I've given modest amounts over the years to my high school in response to donation requests in honor of people who meant a lot to me as a youngster.

I don't give to them regularly though because they had some really serious problems when I was there that were swept under the rug and hope we would not notice the big wad in the middle of the floor.

Most of the brothers who taught me in high school gave up teaching the prevledged suburban upper middle class students and went to the Congo or Nigeria and are burried there.

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« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2019, 12:46:47 AM »
Yep.  The college of Nursing has gotten a couple of 7-figure donations from alums who were never wealthy (imagine how poorly nurses were paid in the mid-20th century), but lived conservatively and left a nice chunk of their estate to the school.

And they certainly weren't on the phone with Joe True every day demanding stuff in return.

Two of the bigger donors I know are dentists, of course that is anecdotal as I don’t know what the share of donations are compared to their peers.
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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2019, 06:21:51 AM »
I'd feel better having more and more dentists, lawyers, doctors, other professionals helping to foot the bills. 

Foot the bills?

MU is competing for charitable cash with every nonprofit under the sun. Some of these causes really do need help footing the bills -- especially in an era of Charity Navigator where an increasing trend of people wanting to see their money really making an impact.

It's easy to see the impact of endowing a professor or naming a college. Harder to see what difference a smaller donation makes.

Marquette's endowment is pushing $700mm and tuition is north of $40k. I know that opex isn't funded by drawing down the endowment, nor does everyone pay the rack rate... but what's the value proposition for donors who aren't making it rain?

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« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2019, 09:58:39 AM »
Foot the bills?

MU is competing for charitable cash with every nonprofit under the sun. Some of these causes really do need help footing the bills -- especially in an era of Charity Navigator where an increasing trend of people wanting to see their money really making an impact.

It's easy to see the impact of endowing a professor or naming a college. Harder to see what difference a smaller donation makes.

Marquette's endowment is pushing $700mm and tuition is north of $40k. I know that opex isn't funded by drawing down the endowment, nor does everyone pay the rack rate... but what's the value proposition for donors who aren't making it rain?

Some schools charge $65,000 per.  Some schools let you bring your horse with you to college.
With working part time, and working summers I went to Marquette because I could afford it. As someone mentioned, it was a blue collar school.  I'm not sure about now.

Major problem is thst physicians, dentists, and lawyers don't make the kind of money they did 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. 

The benefit of small donors is that they may have assets which may go to Marquette in their will.  Like the frugal nurse, sometimes you would be suprised who has the real money and the loyal heart.




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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2019, 09:28:55 PM »
It appears that one of our fellow Jesuit schools is in a serious financial crisis.  Wheeling Jesuit has declared a "financial exigency" and is fighting for survival.  I've heard that all scholarship athletes have been advised that their scholarships will not be renewed.

I've read plenty suggesting that there may be a lot of smaller schools closing in the coming decade or so.  I've had several friends and family members attend Wheeling, and a friend was on their BoT until a year or two ago.
 It'd be a shame if WJU has to close its doors, but it seems pretty widely accepted in academia that some schools are going to close.
This is sad news. Wheeling just had a great wrestling season

http://www.wju.edu/news/2019/03/two-wheeling-jesuit-wrestlers-win-national-championships-.html#.XJg8jropCEc
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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2019, 02:39:45 PM »
I'll donate to MU when my net worth is in the 7 figures, until then, which is probably still decades away, they'll have to get by without me.

The whole model for higher education is completely f*cked. Unlimited government loans and exponentially increasing tuition.

If some schools have to close, fine. The current system is broken.

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2019, 05:50:01 AM »
I'll donate to MU when my net worth is in the 7 figures, until then, which is probably still decades away, they'll have to get by without me.

The whole model for higher education is completely f*cked. Unlimited government loans and exponentially increasing tuition.

If some schools have to close, fine. The current system is broken.

It would seem to me that the more schools close the more "pick of the litter" that the remaining schools have which by nature of supply and demand would increase tuition even more.
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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2019, 08:49:51 AM »
It would seem to me that the more schools close the more "pick of the litter" that the remaining schools have which by nature of supply and demand would increase tuition even more.

I don't disagree. Which again, is evidence the system is fundamentally broken and unsustainable.

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #22 on: March 27, 2019, 11:09:42 AM »
I'll donate to MU when my net worth is in the 7 figures, until then, which is probably still decades away, they'll have to get by without me.

The whole model for higher education is completely f*cked. Unlimited government loans and exponentially increasing tuition.

If some schools have to close, fine. The current system is broken.

YUP.

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Re: Wheeling Jesuit
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2019, 07:21:33 AM »
It looks like Wheeling Jesuit will keep the doors open for at least one more year.  There's not a lot in there that inspires much confidence.  I would think that many students would be looking to transfer as soon as a viable option presented itself.  I know that if one of my kids was there, we'd certainly be exploring that option.
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« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2019, 10:09:28 PM »
It looks like Wheeling Jesuit will keep the doors open for at least one more year.  There's not a lot in there that inspires much confidence.  I would think that many students would be looking to transfer as soon as a viable option presented itself.  I know that if one of my kids was there, we'd certainly be exploring that option.
Hoping they can survive or find a merger partner.
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