Dartmouth Near Top in Alumni Giving

THE Council for Financial Aid to Education has recently published its official report on a survey conducted jointly during 1957 by the American Alumni Council, the American College Public Relations Association and the Council for Financial Aid to Education. It is entitled "Voluntary Support of American Colleges and Universities 1956-1957."

The report covered 904 institutions of higher learning. Dartmouth is in Group I which is made up of 65 "Major Private Universities." This group comprises only 7% of the 904 institutions in the survey, but they received over 47% of the grand total of $817,000,000 which the 904 colleges received in 1956-1957.

In this group Dartmouth is near the bottom of the list in size of student body and faculty, but she is very close to the top in seven categories of alumni support. Here are the Dartmouth standings among the 65 major institutions:

Size of faculty 51st Student body 50th Corporate gifts and grants 35th Welfare Foundation grants 33rd Gifts from "other groups" 31st Gifts from non-alumni individuals 30th Number of living alumni 28th Grand total dollar support 26th Government grants 17th Total bequests 15th Endowment - total market value 13th Total estate planning gifts 11th ALUMNI Trustee support 10th ALUMNI donors to Alumni Funds 7th ALUMNI bequests 6th ALUMNI giving (excluding bequests) 5th ALUMNI grand total support 5th ALUMNI estate planning gifts 3rd ALUMNI fund participation 1st

Only Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Princeton were ahead of Dartmouth in Total Alumni Support among these 65 institutions, and only one other (University of California) among all the other 839 institutions in the survey.