We're really hoping we can get students to think outside the box. We want students to use Drake as a frame of reference and then take it further than that. Within the next year and a half, a national fund-raising campaign for Drake will begin. We wanted to make sure the fund-raising committee knows what students want money spent on. Therefore, we want to figure out how we can use this money to build that sense of community.
Possible ideas are a student union, an endowment or residence hall renovation.
The data we get from these workshops can be applied to a lot of things. I really hope Drake University students keep talking about campus community because it's an intricate part of us. It's a very important issue. An additional open forum to discuss the activities of the Ad Hoc Committee on Fundraising Priorities is scheduled for Feb. 27. Back to the front page.