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Bearcat 1985, I'm ALL in with ALL your suggested strategies. I think non-Ohioans have historically been a challenge because UC's out-of-state tuition is higher than other large public universities. Particularly looking to the southeastern states, many have historically been substantially less and now sweeten the pot even more with merit based assistance. Even if UC matches that merit money, it's still more expensive in some cases. Add the sunshine and warm weather and it's pretty enticing to go to 'Bama or South Carolina.

I believe UC is in a "quiet phase" of that next capital campaign at this time, but I have no idea how Covid 19 might impact the length and public rollout in the context of 2020. I will only add that endowment building is the hardest work of all in fundraising. So many donors want to make gifts that can be spent now to have an immediate impact on students, faculty chairs/research or the physical campus. But growing that endowment must remain a key objective.

It certainly wouldn't hurt if someone would bequeath some Apple or Amazon stock to UC's endowment as earlier generations did with P&G stocks.