In other words, the
products of our development activities are scholarships, fellowships,
faculty development (there it is again!), advanced technology
and, yes, that building that’s been promised to the
journalism school for decades. We continue to move forward
with the LeConte project. Moving us out of the Coliseum is
high on the university’s priority list. If you’re
really nostalgic for the Coliseum, let us know. We’ll
try to salvage a piece of it for you when we eventually move.
And I’m convinced we will.
We’re also committed to raising the funds for the Children,
Libraries and Literacy initiative which has three
key components: The Augusta Baker Chair in Childhood Literacy,
The South Carolina Center for Children’s Books and Literacy and
community outreach and training. [See the sidebar boxes for details on
all these efforts.] We expect to reach these objectives with
a combination of public and private funds.
We, in this case, are a development team working within
the college and in coordination with Dr.
Shirley Staples Carter and Dr.
Samantha Hastings,
directors of the journalism and library schools.
Terry Dixon is director of development for the College of
Mass Communications and Information Studies. Dixon will
be responsible
for seeking major gifts for the College's School of Journalism
and
Mass Communications and its School of Library and Information
Science. Terry received a B.A. in Communications
from Winthrop University and a M.ED. from USC. She has seventeen
years experience in fundraising, marketing and career services
in the fields of higher education and healthcare.
A 2003 public relations graduate of the School of Journalism
and Mass Communications, Elaine
Taylor is the associate
director of alumni and donor relations.
Prior to joining the College’s development team,
Elaine was a marketing and sales associate for EdVenture
Children’s Museum in Columbia. She will be tasked with
raising all gifts below $25,000 including all scholarships.
In addition, Taylor will spearhead the College's new alumni
society, which launches Fall 2005.
That’s the team. But to be effective, we cannot leave
anyone on the sidelines. Alumni, the professions and our friends
of the college are keys to our success. Annual giving, endowments
and bequests already yield significant benefits. But we’re at a juncture when we want to do a few special
things that require sizeable new resources. Those resources
may come in big chunks or bit by bit. By check or in kind.
Contact us to be part of these exciting and important developments. Charles Bierbauer
Dean |
development.
