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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 1355391, member: 1526"] I like Josh personally, but he's already been at UCONN for two years, with a staff of over 100 employees, and our endowment is only marginally larger than Quinnipiac's. At some point, doesn't he have to take ownership and deserve to take some of the blame for that level of ineffectiveness? In comparison, the UCAA operated with a staff of less than 20 people. By those numbers, Josh ought to have been at least five times more effective, with his army of staff members. Instead, we're lucky to be doing slightly better than Quinnipiac, a school with a total alumni base of 40,000 compared to our 230,000. You made an excellent point, John. Right now, the folks who are bitching and moaning about how they attended local UCONN alumni events and got hit up to pay membership dues to join the AA are the same folks who clamor for the new business model of alumni relations and fund raising to be joined together as one. OK, then these will also be the same folks who will bitch and moan the first time they attend a local alumni event and they've got the credit card machine on the front table ready to swipe your card for a donation. The UCONN Foundation has a program going on right now which they apparently refer to as "Phonathon." I think some of you are probably familiar with it. It consists of an auto-dial system whereby they hire current UCONN students to hit you up for donations over the phone. The problem is it's like a collection agency auto-dial system, something I've had a little experience with on the collection agent side of the phone. They sit in a boiler room with the auto-dialer fired up and complete the next call that comes up. This results in the callees, or victims if you prefer, receiving several calls per month, on average. I guess we should all be proud that UCONN is preparing our graduates for their future careers in the phone collection business. Josh apparently considers this system an effective means of "reaching out" to the alumni base. I consider it an unwarranted an unnecessary intrusion on my time. Send me a brochure, or an e-mail. Don't constantly harass me with annoying phone calls, like any collection agency would. Really? This is how we're going to collect donations from now on? If I want to participate in the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, I'll watch it. Otherwise, I'd prefer not to have to intentionally ignore multiple phone calls every month asking me to donate $25 or $50 bucks. I'm wearing out my reject button. I get it, they hope they'll eventually wear you down until you give in. The problem is that isn't going to stop the auto-dial calls from coming to your cell phone. [/QUOTE]

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