Zeikia has just been named the director of alumni relationships at a local university. Alumni donations are an important source of revenue for colleges and universities. If administrators could determine the factors that could lead to increases in the percentage of alumni who make a donation, they might be able to implement policies that could lead to increased revenues. Research shows that students who are more satisfied with their contact with teachers are more likely to graduate. As a result, one might suspect that smaller class sizes and lower student/faculty ration might lead to a higher percentage of satisfied graduates, which in turn might lead to increases in percentage of alumni who make a donation. Zeikia is feeling an extra pressure to increase total givi
Zeikia has just been named the director of alumni relationships at a local university. Alumni donations are an important source of revenue for colleges and universities. If administrators could determine the factors that could lead to increases in the percentage of alumni who make a donation, they might be able to implement policies that could lead to increased revenues. Research shows that students who are more satisfied with their contact with teachers are more likely to graduate. As a result, one might suspect that smaller class sizes and lower student/faculty ration might lead to a higher percentage of satisfied graduates, which in turn might lead to increases in percentage of alumni who make a donation.
Zeikia is feeling an extra pressure to increase total giving to the university because of recent budget cuts. Zeikia is also feeling pressured to increase the percentage of alumni to give. Zeikia found this new metric called average alumni giving rate U.S. News & World Report.
- Consider a school that similar to Zeikia university. Zeikia’s university has 65% graduation rate and a student-faculty ration of 19:1, 37% of the classes have fewer than 20 students, 23% of the classes have more than 50 students, and have a freshman retention rate of 80%. Should Zeikia’s university giving rate be greater or less than 8%?
- What conclusions and recommendations can you derive from your analysis? (Help on conclusions please!)
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