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$200 Million 'EXPONENTIAL' Capital Campaign to Power UNC Charlotte's Future

Thursday, September 22, 2016

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Sept. 22, 2016 - Boosted by generous donations from two alumni with storied connections to the University, UNC Charlotte launched a $200 million capital campaign on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.

University leaders described the lead pledge from Board of Trustees member and former chair Karen Popp (’80) and business executive Demond Martin (’97) as the cornerstone for the fundraising drive “EXPONENTIAL: The Campaign for UNC Charlotte.”

The largest capital campaign in UNC Charlotte’s history has significant implications for the institution’s future. Its goal is to raise $200 million that will fund new facilities and renovate existing structures, scholarship endowments, program support and annual giving. University alumnus Gene Johnson (’73) is the campaign chair; Tim Belk and Leon and Sandra Levine are honorary campaign co-chairs.

The campaign’s theme “EXPONENTIAL” asserts the accelerating force that UNC Charlotte has on the lives of its students, on its educational and economic partners, and on the region and beyond.

The theme also conveys the University’s remarkable trajectory of growth and innovation, especially during the last decade, and its strategic vision for sustained strategic progress and impact.

“As we embark on EXPONENTIAL: The Campaign for UNC Charlotte, I must remind you how far we’ve come,” said Chancellor Philip L. Dubois. “Over recent decades, we’ve rapidly expanded enrollments, faculty and programs.

“While substantial efforts in applied research and entrepreneurial partnerships have helped drive economic and community development, we have also remained true to Bonnie Cone’s vision — that UNC Charlotte will be a place of access and opportunity for every deserving student,” he said.

Johnson, campaign chair, said the lead gift sends a message to alumni and other supporters.

“We are at a transformative juncture in the life of this University,” he said. “One important milestone was when we achieved doctorate status and became a major research university. Now, we are moving more into shifting the financial burden away from students. This campaign will help us do that.”

The “exponential announcement” was a highlight of a weeklong Founders Celebration to commemorate UNC Charlotte’s 70 years of creating opportunity. The University is one of several institutions founded in metropolitan areas of the United States immediately after World War II in response to rising educational demands generated by the war and its technology. To serve returning veterans, North Carolina opened 14 evening college centers in communities across the state. The Charlotte Center — now UNC Charlotte — opened Sept. 23, 1946.

“Now UNC Charlotte is a leading urban research university with national and global scope,” Dubois said. “Our needs have changed as much as our campus. We have ambitious goals, but we’ve accomplished great things before. To continue direct and meaningful impact, we need past and future donors to participate. An investment in knowledge certainly pays the best interest.

“This campaign undoubtedly will bring exponential returns, serving the interests of students, faculty and staff at UNC Charlotte as well as many industries and residents of the region,” he said. “We appreciate your continued trust and generous support.”

The donation was announced at the University’s Student Union, which is being named the Karen A. Popp and Demond T. Martin Student Union. Completed in 2009, the $65 million facility has become the epicenter of the campus, hosting more than 300 student organizations.

Johnson, the first alumnus to serve as chair of the UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees, said there is an important change in the makeup of the University, which is indicated in the direction of the capital campaign.

“For the first time, we will have significant numbers of alumni participating in a major capital campaign,” he said. “This says a lot about what we are as a University and how we are growing.”

“It’s incredible to think this University is now 70 years old,” Johnson said. “And it’s a key year in our life as an institution. That’s why the theme of the campaign is so important. We will be experiencing exponential growth from here on out. This campaign will also have an exponential impact on the region and on the lives of our students.”

Exponential Campaign Executive Committee
The following UNC Charlotte alumni and friends make up the Campaign Executive Committee: Gene Johnson (chair), Dennis Bunker III, Mark Doughton, Dhiaa Jamil, Fred Klein, Jeff Leak, Joe Price and Ruth Shaw. Tim Belk and Leon and Sandra Levine are the honorary co-chairs for Exponential: The Campaign for UNC Charlotte.
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Quote:UNC Charlotte unveiled a $200 million campaign Thursday aimed at boosting the school’s future through new facilities, renovating existing structures and creating scholarship endowments.

The campaign has already passed the halfway point, having raised $115,411,738, including lead gifts from Karen Popp (Class of 1980) and Demond Martin (Class of 1997).

Supposedly, half of the money is earmarked for athletics ($100M).

Football stadium expansion?
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Well done!
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Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.
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Where does it say half is for athlerics?

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(09-22-2016 08:28 PM)panama Wrote:  Where does it say half is for athlerics?

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That was a rumor going around.
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Charlotte announces $200,000,000 Capital Campaign (Football Expansion?)
That would be an inordinately large amount. Our campaign is $300M and only $30M for athletics.


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(09-22-2016 08:15 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.

Why is it bad?
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(09-22-2016 10:16 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 08:15 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.

Why is it bad?

There are just too many stupid fans in this conference. 04-chairshot
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(09-22-2016 10:34 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 10:16 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 08:15 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.

Why is it bad?

There are just too many stupid fans in this conference. :chairshot:

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(09-22-2016 10:16 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 08:15 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.

Why is it bad?

So you think women's basketball should have the same recruiting budget as men's with it bringing maybe a quarter of the revenue?

She runs our AD like it is her own personal mission statement.
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(09-22-2016 10:34 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 10:16 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 08:15 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.

Why is it bad?

There are just too many stupid fans in this conference. 04-chairshot

There always has to be one little keyboard warrior with nothing better to do than use momma's AOL time.
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(09-23-2016 05:51 AM)wh49er Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 10:16 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 08:15 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.

Why is it bad?

So you think women's basketball should have the same recruiting budget as men's with it bringing maybe a quarter of the revenue?

She runs our AD like it is her own personal mission statement.

So what exactly is your football budget versus your women's basketball budget?
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(09-23-2016 06:16 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  
(09-23-2016 05:51 AM)wh49er Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 10:16 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 08:15 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.

Why is it bad?

So you think women's basketball should have the same recruiting budget as men's with it bringing maybe a quarter of the revenue?

She runs our AD like it is her own personal mission statement.

So what exactly is your football budget versus your women's basketball budget?

Not sure the exact numbers (don't have time to look them up) but has to be 7-8x more. The revenue justifies that too.

Quick question, would you move a men's BB season opener to 4pm on Friday afternoon so the women's volleyball team can play at 7 that night?
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(09-23-2016 07:23 AM)wh49er Wrote:  
(09-23-2016 06:16 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  
(09-23-2016 05:51 AM)wh49er Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 10:16 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 08:15 PM)wh49er Wrote:  Too bad we have an incompetent AD, who's mission is to ensure all Title IX sports have equal footing with football and basketball.

Why is it bad?

So you think women's basketball should have the same recruiting budget as men's with it bringing maybe a quarter of the revenue?

She runs our AD like it is her own personal mission statement.

So what exactly is your football budget versus your women's basketball budget?

Not sure the exact numbers (don't have time to look them up) but has to be 7-8x more. The revenue justifies that too.

Quick question, would you move a men's BB season opener to 4pm on Friday afternoon so the women's volleyball team can play at 7 that night?

I agree that FB should have the most funding, but I fully support title IX as well, just checking to see how much hyperbole I'm dealing with here. What are the actual comments made by your president that leads you to believe the president wants "title IX sports" to be on equal footing with football.

Now as to your second question, our women's volleyball team have their own venue, so that wouldn't be an issue. Taking that out of the equation, when you say "home opener" are you referring to this year? If so, would that be the exhibition against DII Newberry College you're referring to? If so, I have no problem with the move.
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(09-23-2016 07:49 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  
(09-23-2016 07:23 AM)wh49er Wrote:  
(09-23-2016 06:16 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  
(09-23-2016 05:51 AM)wh49er Wrote:  
(09-22-2016 10:16 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  Why is it bad?

So you think women's basketball should have the same recruiting budget as men's with it bringing maybe a quarter of the revenue?

She runs our AD like it is her own personal mission statement.

So what exactly is your football budget versus your women's basketball budget?

Not sure the exact numbers (don't have time to look them up) but has to be 7-8x more. The revenue justifies that too.

Quick question, would you move a men's BB season opener to 4pm on Friday afternoon so the women's volleyball team can play at 7 that night?

I agree that FB should have the most funding, but I fully support title IX as well, just checking to see how much hyperbole I'm dealing with here. What are the actual comments made by your president that leads you to believe the president wants "title IX sports" to be on equal footing with football.

Now as to your second question, our women's volleyball team have their own venue, so that wouldn't be an issue. Taking that out of the equation, when you say "home opener" are you referring to this year? If so, would that be the exhibition against DII Newberry College you're referring to? If so, I have no problem with the move.
This happened two years ago. We opened against Elon. They moved the game to 4 so volleyball could play at 7.
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(09-23-2016 07:49 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  I agree that FB should have the most funding, but I fully support title IX as well, just checking to see how much hyperbole I'm dealing with here. What are the actual comments made by your president that leads you to believe the president wants "title IX sports" to be on equal footing with football.

It's well settled and known amongst 49er fans, and Judy Rose will tell you herself that she sees Title IX compliance and gender equity as key... heck just read it yourself, from the actual campaign website:

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Quote:Continuing that empowerment tradition, funds raised in this campaign will help meet our commitment to Title IX and gender equity in UNC Charlotte’s athletic programs.

I'm not against Title IX, but I don't think softball and volleyball should be given recruiting budgets to match football or even men's basketball. And I don't think a men's basketball game should get bumped to 4pm on a random Friday in November so the Volleyball team can play at 7pm, which happened two consecutive seasons. Shockingly, attendance at the basketball games was rather low...
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(09-23-2016 08:37 AM)Artifice Wrote:  
(09-23-2016 07:49 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  I agree that FB should have the most funding, but I fully support title IX as well, just checking to see how much hyperbole I'm dealing with here. What are the actual comments made by your president that leads you to believe the president wants "title IX sports" to be on equal footing with football.

It's well settled and known amongst 49er fans, and Judy Rose will tell you herself that she sees Title IX compliance and gender equity as key... heck just read it yourself, from the actual campaign website:

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Quote:Continuing that empowerment tradition, funds raised in this campaign will help meet our commitment to Title IX and gender equity in UNC Charlotte’s athletic programs.

I'm not against Title IX, but I don't think softball and volleyball should be given recruiting budgets to match football or even men's basketball. And I don't think a men's basketball game should get bumped to 4pm on a random Friday in November so the Volleyball team can play at 7pm, which happened two consecutive seasons. Shockingly, attendance at the basketball games was rather low...

Right...

So where did she say "title IX sports" should be on "equal footing with football and basketball"?

As a sidenote, would you view a VB facility as a worthwhile investment as it would allow the VB team to play whenever they please? Or should they always, always, always have to schedule around MBB? If they have to share the venue, is one day on the schedule in prime time really too much to ask?
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"commitment to Title IX and gender equality" is really hard to misinterpret, but you can try if you're so inclined. I don't have the time or the inclination to dig up all of her past quotes and budgetary #s and decisions to satisfy you. I have dealt with her before and I know where her priorities lie. Some other fans may be more interested in telling you things like how one of our women's sports coaches gives part of her budget to support our underfunded baseball program (she doesn't use it but the AD insists on equality). There are three prongs to the original Title IX ruling's test, and Judy definitely believes in equal promotion and funding. The volleyball example is classic Judy.
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$100M for athletics is very generous. UAB is in the midst of a $1 billion capital campaign (currently at $737M), but only $100M of that total is designated for facility investments (University wide) and athletics isn't getting any. We had to run a separate campaign for football, which has raised about $40M to date.
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