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Since 1900 \ Volume 106, Issue 90 \ Monday, January 31,2005
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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
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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.
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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
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fewer state appropriations and more
private monies.
John Lippincott, president of the
FUNDING, page 12
BUILDINGS FUNDED WITH GIFT DOLLARS
100%
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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.