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Member colleges of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), like most other colleges and universities, require voluntary support in order to balance their budgets and achieve their institutional missions. While acknowledging the need for alumni support as a result of decreases in funding from federal and state governments, many private and public institutional advancement programs do not instill a culture of giving in their students, nor do they teach the importance of providing financial support to their alma mater after receiving their diploma (Dysart, 1989; Zusman, 1999). Nancy Dysart (1989) suggests that colleges may be forced to teach a culture of giving to their students in order to encourage future alumni participation in development campaigns. The UNCF, through its National Pre-Alumni Council (NPAC), aims to involve students in fund-raising in order to encourage their support after graduation. Alumni support accounts for the majority of voluntary giving to the general academy. For instance, alumni provided 28% of the private donations to higher education in the fiscal year 2001 (American Association of Fundraising Counsel [AAFRC], 2003). However, only 12.2% of alumni solicited support to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the same year (Voluntary Support ofEducation survey, 2005).
I believe that these colleges [historically Black] form a legacy ever devoted to the high ideals for which they were grounded and the pre-alumni council should promulgate not only the tenets of higher education but should promote the highest in race relations as well.
National Pre-Alumni Creed United Negro College Fund.
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Drezner, N.D. (2008). For Alma Mater and the Fund: The United Negro College Fund’s National Pre-Alumni Council and the Creation of the Next Generation of Donors. In: Gasman, M., Tudico, C.L. (eds) Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617261_2
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