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Alumni Percent Participation

More and more, the quality of a college is measured by the number of alumni who support it. While the dollars given are incredibly important, the number of alumni who make a gift each fiscal year are equally significant.

In fiscal year 2006-2007, our 19.15% alumni participation rate not only set a College at Oneonta record, it ranked us third in the nation among public colleges. Also, 19.15 % maintains our number-one rank among our SUNY peers for the sixth consecutive year.      
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Alumni participation rates serve as the decisive factor for many foundations and corporations making major gifts and grants to a college. In addition, national publications use alumni participation rates as a critical measure to assess alumni satisfaction when determining overall institutional ratings of quality. In the past year alone, based in part upon alumni support, the College at Oneonta has been ranked in the top tier of colleges nationwide by U.S. News and World Report and one of the best values in public education by Kiplinger’s.

All gifts from alumni, regardless of size, are critical to the continued growth of our record-setting alumni participation rate. In order to reach our goal of 20% participation this year, we will need to retain all 8,401 alumni donors from the fiscal year 2006-2007 and acquire 615 new alumni donors to the college.