First, shaming is a horribly ineffective way to raise money. Let's just get that one out of the way.
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Second, the past 18 years have generated alumni who are definitionally part of the Millennial generation: the generation suffering the highest wage suppression in the light of the most steeply increasing costs in the country.
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Let's take a look at tuition costs over that time, shall we? Oh wow this seems totally sustainable...pic.twitter.com/0LomyVNd67
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Total cost of attendance for RPI this year was over $66,000. FOR A YEAR http://college-tuition.startclass.com/l/2732/Rensselaer-Polytechnic-Institute …pic.twitter.com/FQ3fgos4gq
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Maybe your alumni aren't donating because we're drowning in debt and when you're drowning in debt you can't generate wealth, which is a necessary step for donations.
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You could ask one of the fine economics professors there about this. But that would involve the administration and board actually listening to faculty, and not, y'know, outright silencing them. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/02/02/aaup_blasts_rensselaer_polytechnic_institute_for_icing_shared_governance …
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RPI is a fantastic school. It really is. I got a wonderful education there. I wish I could go and retake all those classes again. It has also caused its own suffering by trying to be MIT.
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RPI needs to become a university in its own image, not in the image of its peers.
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Glad I told my alumni association to fuck off and then changed my name and gender. They still manage to send me postal mail somehow.
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As someone who worked in Advancement for several years, this is a really shocking alumni communication. I wonder who at the university was part of the decision-making process for this email. Definitely let the Alumni office know how you feel.
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lmao getting their fundraising strategies from democratic campaigns
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