Since 1987, over 60% of solicited Clarkson alumni have contributed to Clarkson at least one time. While this is a tremendous figure, many of our alumni do not choose to contribute to Clarkson every year, for whatever reason. In recent years, alumni participation rates have hovered around 30% of all Clarkson alumni making a gift.

That’s our challenge. Alumni giving participation figures are significant for many reasons, including the fact that they’re used in the methodology to determine annual rankings by widely-read guidebooks like Barrons and U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges. To move up in the rankings, and thus attract more students of promise, we must increase our alumni participation rate.

Here are some charts reflecting recent alumni giving trends and comparing Clarkson alumni giving to our competitor universities. Your gift, at any level, will collectively help turn the trends to an upward direction.

In 2006-07, the percentage of solicited alumni who donated to Clarkson was 24.6%.

In 2006-07, Clarkson alumni gave $2.68 million, or an average of $417 per alumni donor, which is down from the average gift of $448 in 2005-06.