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OT: WMU Gets $550M Anonymous Donation

Kalamazoo will have an elite medical school now. Yup, waste of money.

It's obvious the donation is from Ronda Stryker. Med school is named after her grandfather and is private. That allows for deeper research, perhaps.
 
superjohn said:
It's either Gores or the Stryker granddaughter. Jeter is nowhere near that ballpark.

Whenever I see stuff like this I wonder why UConn doesn't seem to really have any huge donors. Has UConn ever had a billionaire grad or anyone with several hundreds of millions?
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superjohn said:
It's either Gores or the Stryker granddaughter. Jeter is nowhere near that ballpark.

Whenever I see stuff like this I wonder why UConn doesn't seem to really have any huge donors. Has UConn ever had a billionaire grad or anyone with several hundreds of millions?
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It's hard for UConn to have donors achieve that level of wealth when their grads and fans spend all their time on the Boneyard.............:rolleyes:
 
This is really a private school at this point when you realize tuition equals spending per student already. The directional Michigan universities get very little support and this will be hugely transformative for them. Although the other directionals must be wondering if support can be redirected to them given the enormous amount of money.

WMU was already the best of the 5 but now it's elevated in status to compete with the state's top publics.
 
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upstater said:
This is really a private school at this point when you realize tuition equals spending per student already. The directional Michigan universities get very little support and this will be hugely transformative for them. Although the other directionals must be wondering if support can be redirected to them given the enormous amount of money.

WMU was already the best of the 5 but now it's elevated in status to compete with the state's top publics.
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Settle down for a second here, Michigan’s endowment is 12.5 Billion (with a B) dollars and Michigan State’s is 3.5 Billion dollars. You add in everything else; research money, athletic money etc and they could crush WMU if they really wanted to. Not saying they will or should, just that they could.

This is awesome for WMU, but they are still not actually “competing” with Michigan or MSU in any meaningful way
 
WMU has been popular with Illinois kids because it is easy to get in state tuition after your freshman year. Many of the midwest state universities have in state tuition reciprocity with neighboring states but none with Illinois. Too broke @$$ I guess. Kalamazoo is a cool town. Plenty of recreation and Bells Brewery.
 
Larry Bell of Bell's Brewery has made a lot of good beer and a lot of money. Certainly not $550 mil. In 2014 Bell attended all 81 Cubs home games. He brought masochism to a new level. Actually Wrigley is a great place to see a ball game.
 
The Mitchell family (huge real estate company) has given my school, South Alabama, over $113 million over the years. The strange thing is that the two brothers that gave all of this money did not even go to South. Their sons did, but not them. There is a reason we have the Mitchell Center (basketball), Mitchell School of Business, and Mitchell Cancer Research Institute. If they give any more, it may become Mitchell University.
 
Butch said:
Kalamazoo will have an elite medical school now. Yup, waste of money.

It's obvious the donation is from Ronda Stryker. Med school is named after her grandfather and is private. That allows for deeper research, perhaps.
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5.8B net worth, sheeeeesh. 550M to a school seems insane but when you have 5.8B I guess it's not too hard to part with.
 
Mr. French said:
5.8B net worth, sheeeeesh. 550M to a school seems insane but when you have 5.8B I guess it's not too hard to part with.
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She'll still have way more than 5.8 billion, Bloomberg has her net worth at over 7.5 billion.
 
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Guapo said:
Settle down for a second here, Michigan’s endowment is 12.5 Billion (with a B) dollars and Michigan State’s is 3.5 Billion dollars. You add in everything else; research money, athletic money etc and they could crush WMU if they really wanted to. Not saying they will or should, just that they could.

This is awesome for WMU, but they are still not actually “competing” with Michigan or MSU in any meaningful way
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I'm not talking about sports.

I well know the schools are like apples and oranges. But while MSU may have 3.5x the endowment WMU has, it also has 3x as many undergrads. Proportionally WMU holds its own in this measure, especially when you realize the built in costs of the research heavy programs at MSU. In bigger states, you see this dynamic a lot, with less research intensive schools that have good funding stealing students from the bigger research schools. Ex. Geneseo in NY taking kids from the University centers, or Santa Cruz nabbing kids from UCLA or San Diego. In the past, the directional Michigan schools couldn't offer kids such programs with resources. Now WMU can. It makes a huge difference.
 
Pawsox said:
The Mitchell family (huge real estate company) has given my school, South Alabama, over $113 million over the years. The strange thing is that the two brothers that gave all of this money did not even go to South. Their sons did, but not them. There is a reason we have the Mitchell Center (basketball), Mitchell School of Business, and Mitchell Cancer Research Institute. If they give any more, it may become Mitchell University.
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Chin Diesel said:
And that $37M is about 1/15th the size of this donation.


$550M is an incredible amount of money. It is about $80M more than UConn's entire endowment.

Most colleges would be ecstatic to have a single donor giving $37M I'm a lifetime. That size donation can greatly enhance a university.
$550M transforms a university and the entire region around the university.
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I would have thought UConn’s endowment was much larger than that. My wife’s school has an endowment of like $7B.
 
upstater said:
I'm not talking about sports.

I well know the schools are like apples and oranges. But while MSU may have 3.5x the endowment WMU has, it also has 3x as many undergrads. Proportionally WMU holds its own in this measure, especially when you realize the built in costs of the research heavy programs at MSU. In bigger states, you see this dynamic a lot, with less research intensive schools that have good funding stealing students from the bigger research schools. Ex. Geneseo in NY taking kids from the University centers, or Santa Cruz nabbing kids from UCLA or San Diego. In the past, the directional Michigan schools couldn't offer kids such programs with resources. Now WMU can. It makes a huge difference.
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I’m not talking sports, either. But, fair enough. Obviously it’ll make a huge difference and, like I said, this is really great for them
 
Northbound said:
I would have thought UConn’s endowment was much larger than that. My wife’s school has an endowment of like $7B.
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As other's have mentioned earlier in this thread and in previous threads, UConn's endowment is very low for a school of its size, history and desired stature within academia. The low endowment trickles down to affect so much of what UConn wants to do going forward.
 
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Samoo said:
I don't think your comment had its desired affect.
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How so? I don't give a crap what other commenters say. It is a total waste of money. For the most part Universities today are warping the minds of our youth.
 
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Pinnacle said:
How so? I don't give a crap what other commenters say. It is a total waste of money. For the most part Universities today are warping the minds of our youth.
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Is that what happened to you?
 
upstater said:
I'm not talking about sports.

I well know the schools are like apples and oranges. But while MSU may have 3.5x the endowment WMU has, it also has 3x as many undergrads. Proportionally WMU holds its own in this measure, especially when you realize the built in costs of the research heavy programs at MSU. In bigger states, you see this dynamic a lot, with less research intensive schools that have good funding stealing students from the bigger research schools. Ex. Geneseo in NY taking kids from the University centers, or Santa Cruz nabbing kids from UCLA or San Diego. In the past, the directional Michigan schools couldn't offer kids such programs with resources. Now WMU can. It makes a huge difference.
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Its hard for me to imagine myself choosing Geneseo over Stony Brook/Binghamton/Buffalo if I went through process all over again. I'm sure some kids end up doing this to have the small college experience & small town party scene. But I don't think this happen a lot as you say
 
superjohn said:
It's either Gores or the Stryker granddaughter. Jeter is nowhere near that ballpark.

Whenever I see stuff like this I wonder why UConn doesn't seem to really have any huge donors. Has UConn ever had a billionaire grad or anyone with several hundreds of millions?
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I’m a tightwad.

But seriously, UConn definitely has had big donors. Gampel, Burton for just a few donated big bucks just for athletics. Among athletes I know Donyell Marshall and Charles Nagy donated large sums. Not sure about Ray Allen.

This guy was not a UConn grad
www.foundation.uconn.edu

UConn Receives Second Largest Gift in its History - UConn Foundation

The UConn Foundation UConn Receives Second Largest Gift in its History . Supporting the University of Connecticut.
www.foundation.uconn.edu www.foundation.uconn.edu
 
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cohenzone said:
I’m a tightwad.

But seriously, UConn definitely has had big donors. Gampel, Burton for just a few donated big bucks just for athletics. Among athletes I know Donyell Marshall and Charles Nagy donated large sums. Not sure about Ray Allen.

This guy was not a UConn grad
www.foundation.uconn.edu

UConn Receives Second Largest Gift in its History - UConn Foundation

The UConn Foundation UConn Receives Second Largest Gift in its History . Supporting the University of Connecticut.
www.foundation.uconn.edu www.foundation.uconn.edu
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Jeff's Ex just gave $40M each to UCF and UT San Antonio. Part of a larger donation of $2.7B across hundreds of organizations.
 
I never knew Adrien made that kind of coin. Good for him.
 
Since this thread is about the advancement of communities, that new amphitheater in Bridgeport is going to gentrify this city faster than the Bluefish ever could.

RIP Bluefish.
 
Butch said:
Since this thread is about the advancement of communities, that new amphitheater in Bridgeport is going to gentrify this city faster than the Bluefish ever could.

RIP Bluefish.
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Faster than 0? Sure.
 
Butch said:
Since this thread is about the advancement of communities, that new amphitheater in Bridgeport is going to gentrify this city faster than the Bluefish ever could.

RIP Bluefish.
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my entry in the naming contest for the team long ago, was 'Park City Piranha.'
since the Jenkins Valves site was integral to the development of the ballpark/arena complex, well, here, check out what once was. the number of 'world's largest manufacturers of ...' on this list will blow anyone's mind.
Bridgeport History Center - Companies
5,000? 10,000? 15,000? employees at some of these giants.
and as far as 'giving back to the community,' gramps sez that it usually only took one afternoon or so of visits to a few of these companies, to ask for cash for a worthwhile civic project to get 'er done. he said that often he'd show up, and a 'swell' would say 'what now? how much we talkin aboot? is xxx in on the giving? Mary!' (i guess that it was some kind of law or sumthin where a company's chief bookkeeper had to be named mary. lol.)

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