Alumni Donors
 

Often our graduates have enjoyed their program so much they have said ‘How can I give something back?’ There are many ways in which being a graduate of the Department of Educational Leadership might assist you in achieving your career goals. If this is the case, then you, too, may wish to give something back to the department. If this applies to you and you would like to pass your good fortune forward, here are some ways that you can help us.

1. Keep in touch…let us know what you are doing and if you change what you are doing, then let us know that too.

2. Tell others about us…if you enjoyed your program tell your colleagues. If there were things that need to be improved, tell us.

3. Come back again…if you have completed your masters degree here you can come back for further study at the specialist or doctoral levels. Many people have two degrees from the department and some have three: masters, specialist and doctorate.

4. Become an Adjunct for FAU…if you have a doctoral degree with us, you can adjunct for us. We are always looking to support the passing on of knowledge and you may be interested in working with the next generation of leaders. If you feel you could contribute in this way, contact the Chair, Tony Townsend at townsend@fau.edu.

5. Become a guest speaker…many of you have the specific experiences that relate to the work we are doing. Your experiences can be used to build on the theories we talk about to make our work come alive to students. Consider offering yourself as a guest speaker to one of our programs.

6. Help us to improve what we do…consider serving as part of an alumni committee to review the current mission statement, program or specific courses to make sure they are relevant to a rapidly changing world. If you are interested in working with the faculty to improve our programs contact us at edleadership@fau.edu.

7. Send us something for the alumni news…we are interested in your story. If you would like to send us a short piece about the work you do or something interesting that has happened to you, we would like to put it (with photos if possible) onto our website.

8. Support the next generation of leaders…you could make a gift to form a scholarship or you could contribute to the ongoing support of a scholarship already in place. Any funds that you provide in this way are matched by the institution. If you made a pledge to contribute $500 per years for five years, this money would be used to support other students through the program. Of course, the pledge could be more or less than this amount. It is the pledge to support us that is most important, because it demonstrates that you think what we do is worthwhile.

9. Support our operations…you could make a one time gift, an ongoing pledge or an endowment that will support the development of the department. Such a gift could be used to support valuable research into leadership or the offering of programs to special groups that may not be able to afford them. There are many activities which you might help to finance, with just a small gift on a regular basis.