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LTD bus drivers not going to strike I 4 An independent newspaper www. dailyemerald. com Since 1900 \ Volume 106, Issue 90 \ Monday, January 31,2005 Lauren Wimer | Senior photographer University alumna Sandy Barnett and University of Oregon Foundation emeritus trustee Norm Walker socialize during the gala cocktail party Saturday. The gala marks the beginning of the second phase of Campaign Oregon. Campaign Oregon illustrates an emerging national trend — a decrease in state funding and an increase in private donations STORY BY JARED PABEN NEWS EDITOR GRAPHICS BY BRET FURTWANGLER GRAPHIC ARTIST he biggest party in Oregon on Sat urday was held in a building con .X. structed with $16 million in pri vate funds, next to another structure erected with the help of $1.5 million in donations and a stone’s throw away from a stadium expansion propped up with $60 million in gifts. Donors and University alumni, many who have helped build the University with their funds, court top-ranking faculty and finance outstanding students, congregated at an unprecedented Hollywood premier style gala to usher in the second phase of an unprecedented campaign designed to raise more than $600 million in donations. Even before the gala, that campaign, called Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives, raised $300 million in private dona tions for the University. But that total inched even higher Sat urday night after University President Dave Frohnmayer announced another $16 million in gifts that will go toward scholarships, the University’s first two Presidential Chairs and a journalism program in Portland The gala was a celebration of alumni philanthropy that has yielded scholarships, endowments and enormous buildings on the University campus. But it also underscored and represented a trend emerging both here and at flagship public universities across the nation, a de crease in state dollars and an ever-increas ing thirst for private gifts to supplement budgets, both to retain the institutions’ quality and to climb the ladder to join the ranks of elite public universities. Universi ties are asking for more, and donors are giving more, but in the usually amiable world of donorship a few hiccups have forced universities across the nation to closely watch benefactor relations. To Presidential Scholars, law and busi ness students, the advantages to getting these monies are clear — money for col lege and new state-of-the-art classrooms — but the process is not as easy as shaking hands and handing over a check. Private funding increases In the 2003-04 school year, less than 14 percent of the University’s total rev enue came from the state, while students shelled out more than at the University he’s seen the amount of gift dollars increase tenfold. In fact, in temis of raw dollars given, the University received more private money than it did state money last year, he said. The University does not get all of the raw money, however, because much of it is given as endowments. Those 33 percent ot the Univer sity’s budget in the form of tuition and fees. Nearly two decades ago, in 1985-86, more than 32 percent came from the state, and 22 percent came out of students’ pockets. Private gifts to the Uni versity have also in MORE INSIDE: PAGES 6 AND 7 At the gala, University President Dave Frohnmayer announces a $15 million gift to the UO, which will help fund scholarships and an extension of the School of Journalism in Portland. inumes die invesieu, dim me University gets a percentage of them over a long period to use for a specified purpose, he said. “My expectation will be that sort of over the next five years or so you’ll see the revenue from total gifts getting up to close to the revenue from state appropri ations,” Moseley said. And Oregon is not alone. creased, eating away at the percentage of the University’s budget that comes from the state. University Senior Vice President and Provost John Moseley said in his 25 years muc a auuiig ueiiu liauuiiwiuc vji fewer state appropriations and more private monies. John Lippincott, president of the FUNDING, page 12 BUILDINGS FUNDED WITH GIFT DOLLARS 100% i_n_r u Bowerman Family Building Knight Law Center Many Nations Longhouse Lillis Business Complex Moshofsky Sports Center Olum Child Development Center These University buildings had construction budgets with at least 50 percent of funding coming from private gifts. The shaded area represents the percentage of the total cost paid with gifts.
