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Not meaning to hijack but I was getting 3 or4 calls a week for donations late in the football season. So far none during hoops.

Anybody else notice this?

...I think that falls under the "tuition exclusion"... but I'm sure the professor thanks your anyway... probably for more than just the money.

Over 180 views in an hour - and yet no donors? Come on people... that stadium isn't going to brick itself.

Jim, maybe donate your body (minus your liver) to one of the medical colleges.

I'm currently a student, so they're getting my tuition. After I graduate, I'm not planning on giving them anything. I know the tuition increases aren't entirely the fault of the university, since they obviously can't have complete control on their own funding, but I do give them a chunk of blame for that, and I figure they have enough money as it is. If I'm gonna give away money, I'm gonna give it to a charity that helps people in a much more concrete way.

my right arm and my left leg

HEY OH!

The new RCMB is a small sample and judging from some of the overall quality of threads/posts, hopefully, not a good cross section of the "Spartan Nation". But whether we like it or not, the U can't exist without donations over and above the legislative allotments and bond issues. If you don't like the amount the MI legislature allots to MSU, vote in a different legislature. Otherwise, without help from private funds, your degree will become less valuable in the future. Alumni giving is one of the criteria that US News and World Report uses to judge the quality of education of colleges. And we are last in the Big 10 in that regard. It's sad to see the attitude of so many MSU alumni that think that they paid their $ to MSU, received a "product" in return and that's the end of it. Evidently MSU mgt has done a poor job of selling us on the future value of our degrees in comparison to other schools. Or maybe the value of our degrees and consequently the jobs we can get using our MSU bought education is already so poor in comparison to our competition that our alumni make so little there is no $ left over after bare living expenses are taken from our budgets.

I'm not happy with some of the things I saw while I was there. I guess in a few more years time after some key leadership changes I will have to give the benefit of the doubt and pony up. I'm not whining about crap like police or rising tuition either, I mean mistakes and decisions that would negatively impact the perception and value of my degree both now and in the years to come.

Obviously your law degree is worth zero - it can't even knock down a parking ticket. But the spouse's MD or DO degree - is worth plenty. I believe the DO school is ranked top 10 for all medical colleges (#1 DO school), while the MD school is in the top 20.

But they are your degrees - and your money.

So far the results of this thread have been surprising to me. People here are always calling "Walmart" to the scUM fans - and saying we're all true Spartans because we went there. If there are so many Alums here - where are the ones that provide some financial support to the university?

Why would anyone tell a stranger what they donate to the university? To brag?

That's fine, i was asking the OP. He seems shocked that nobody's answering his question, when it's really none of his business whether people here donate or not.

So I'm "dumb" because nobody wants to tell you what they donate to MSU. Solid logic there.

I am only a few years removed from MSU. Wife and I still have over 15k in student loans to pay off.

Once those are paid, we want to buy lifetime memberships in the alumni foundation ($900+).

After all that is taken care, I would like to start giving something every year.

Its not that we are "cheap asses" or "don't care about the university", its simply that we are under 28 years old, gas is 3.50 a gallon, and the job market blows. Whatever extra income we had left over is now going into my 15 year old p.o.s car's gas tank.