Provide advice on seeking the highest level of government support for higher education and Fresno State from both Sacramento and Washington. Council members will provide a wide range of their expertise to this institution. University outreach occurs on a number of key levels. The National Development Council would have an impact on all levels. As the organization's name would suggest, members offer counsel to the University's President, his cabinet members and members of the University Advancement staff.
Members also lend their expertise from across the United States nd abroad.
They provide general counsel for and links to the corporate sector, and to national and regional foundations. They serve as ambassadors to governmental agencies both in Sacramento and Washington. Their primary function will be in their own geographic location and within their own professional fields of expertise or areas of personal expertise or interest. They represent satellites of the University and a presence for out institution, often in distant locations. All four committees will be organized under the leadership of a general chairman and the council will meet once a year in Fresno under the direction of that chairman.