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December 2011

Dear 1xbet online casino Faculty and Staff,

This is the Happy Holidays edition of my monthly letter. I hope that as we finish up the fall semester each of you 1xbet online casino have an opportunity for relaxation and reflection on 2011, and 1xbet online casino come back after the break fired up to have a great 2012!

Provost April Mason and I had the opportunity to visit with each college and other 1xbet online casino units to roll out 1xbet best casino website early this fall. Excellent questions were raised in each session – and each academic unit had different concerns and comments. The next steps in the K-State 2025 planning process 1xbet online casino focus on colleges and departments either developing or updating strategic plans to supplement the university-level K-State 2025 plan. We hope that these college and similar unit plans 1xbet online casino be completed by the end of the spring 2012 semester – with academic department and similar unit plans developed by the end of 2012. If we continue to do our planning well, every K-State faculty and staff member should be able to assist us in our overall goal with a clearly defined set of plans for departments and colleges, as well as the university, that all align with one another.

While all of this sounds terrific, one of the fundamental questions focuses on how to fund all of the excellent ideas in K-State 2025. There is no doubt that if we are going to be successful in achieving our Top 50 goal that we 1xbet online casino need to acquire substantial additional financial resources. Where 1xbet online casino these funds come from? First, we 1xbet online casino need to continue to build the case with the Kansas Legislature for why a Top 50 ranked Kansas State University is critical to the future success of Kansas. This 1xbet online casino require a clearly articulated plan coupled with nimbleness and flexibility to respond to a changing statewide political climate. Second, we 1xbet online casino need to continue to compete for federal funds in Washington – whether those are future “earmarked” funds or competitive grants and contracts. As we move ahead with the K-State 2025 plan, there 1xbet online casino certainly be opportunities for us to bring Kansas State University talent to significant federal projects – and we 1xbet online casino need to take full advantage of these opportunities. Third, we 1xbet online casino need to increase our private fundraising at Kansas State to significantly higher levels than we have ever achieved before. All three of these strategies 1xbet online casino need to be part of our funding plan for K-State 2025.

It is one thing to say that we would like to raise more private funds at Kansas State – but new monies 1xbet online casino not simply show up because we want them to! Within higher education, significant fundraising campaigns are often used to help fund new university initiatives or visionary plans. A decade ago, Kansas State was raising about M per year in private funds. Within the last couple of years this has increased to a plateau of about M to 0M per year. To provide needed resources for K-State 2025, we 1xbet online casino need to raise this to levels approaching 0M to 5M annually. This begs the question – "Is this even possible at Kansas State University?"

In order to understand the likelihood for 1xbet online casino to enhance our fundraising efforts significantly, the 1xbet online casino University Foundation commissioned Alexander Haas to assess our readiness for this kind of effort.

Alexander Haas is a well recognized national fundraising consulting firm that has worked with many different colleges and universities who were all interested in substantially increasing their private fundraising. As part of their work with 1xbet online casino , Alexander Haas conducted face-to-face interviews with key 1xbet online casino University alumni and friends. These interviews were focused around K-State 2025 and our overall goal of becoming a Top 50 Public Research University, and whether or not interviewees would consider financially supporting this goal. In addition to the face-to-face interviews, an electronic survey with similar questions was sent to a larger group of 1xbet online casino supporters. Overall, we had responses back from more than 150 1xbet online casino alumni and friends.

The overall response to K-State 2025 from our alumni and friends was overwhelmingly positive. Our alumni and friends like the national aspirations expressed in our Top 50 goal, and feel positive about the leadership and direction of the university. Additionally, many also expressed a strong desire to increase their financial support to 1xbet online casino University to help us achieve the vision as outlined in K-State 2025.

So, what is next? Following a briefing from Alexander Haas on the prospect of increasing our private philanthropic support to assist us in K-State 2025, the Kansas State University Foundation Board of Directors voted to start a comprehensive fundraising campaign in support of our aspirational goals. We are calling the initial stages of our fundraising campaign the "flooring phase," which simply means that we 1xbet online casino be focusing our efforts in the near term to work with alumni and friends who have the capability of making transformational gifts to Kansas State University. After several years, we 1xbet online casino then move into a more public phase of the campaign with an established financial goal that we 1xbet online casino work toward.

Fundraising in higher education is no longer exclusively the purview of the president and Foundation staff members. In order to achieve the types of fundraising success that are possible at Kansas State, a campus-wide effort involving the entire university community 1xbet online casino be required. Vice presidents, deans and department heads 1xbet online casino all need to take an active role in assisting with raising additional funds – and more importantly – thanking our generous supporters as often as possible. As a campus community, we 1xbet online casino need to be creative as we come up with projects and ideas which can help transform our campus community, and impact all seven key identified areas in K-State 2025.

1xbet online casino increasing fundraising in our current climate be easy? No. Can we attract additional resources to make a difference at Kansas State? Yes. It promises to be a fun ride – and there are seats on the bus for everyone!

Go Cats!

Kirk

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