Veterinary Heritage Student Scholarship Fund
Let's look at the facts...
- Since 1975, tuition at Washington State University’s College of
Veterinary Medicine has increased 15-fold to $13,776 a year.
- In the last 30 years, starting salaries for new veterinary graduates
have increased 4-fold to an average of $48,000.
- WSU veterinary students graduating in 2005 left Pullman to begin
their careers owing an average of $75,000 each.
It’s a sobering reality that those entering your profession will have
a difficult time ever positioning themselves to buy into an existing
practice by the time they are 40 years old—when you will need them most.
How do others do it?
Schools like Stanford University or Harvard University, or even some of
the small, private liberal arts colleges, have extremely high tuitions, yet
they send graduates out into the world with less student debt than that
realized by WSU veterinary students. How do they do it?
Quite simply, outstanding universities have fostered in each of their
alumni a refined culture of giving back to the institution that gave them
the tools they use in their profession each day. We believe in this model
and want to instill that same sense of giving at WSU. We are asking you to
join us in helping WSU’s veterinary college be the foremost alumni giving
institution in the state’s higher education system. We are asking you to
help us make a significant, purposeful change in our giving culture to
control the impact of escalating higher education costs.
How you can help...
Currently, of the 3,600 active WSU veterinary alumni, only 17 percent give back
to the University at all, much less to the very college they graduated from. We
believe WSU veterinary alumni are willing to do more and will join us in an
effort to build not only a scholarship fund, but a permanent culture of giving
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Currently, of the 3,600 active WSU veterinary alumni, only 17
percent give back to the University at all, much less to the very
college they graduated from.
Our Vision... Beginning now, we would like to tell prospective
Washington State University veterinary students that their college,
their colleagues, and their fellow alumni want them to succeed and are
contributing to their success. We want you to share in the satisfaction
of knowing that you helped build an unmatched legacy of giving in which
each veterinarian who goes before reaches back to help the veterinarian
who follows at WSU.
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Our proposal asks you to consider donating to this unique scholarship
fund at the level of a President’s Associate or the equivalent of one
premium coffee drink a day—a latté-a-day if you will. It’s trite but
true that for a little less than $3 per day, significant alumni
participation could easily raise the extraordinary funding needed to
begin this landmark scholarship effort.
Our goal...
We want to eventually provide each WSU veterinary student with a Heritage
Scholarship contributed to collectively by our alumni. In turn, we are
asking each graduate as they leave to do the same. If a significant portion
of WSU veterinary alumni “gave a latté a day”— thereby becoming President’s
Associates at the $1,000 annual gift level—this will become the most coveted
and admired giving program in Washington. We want to see all WSU DVM
students’ educational outlay decrease significantly thanks to those that
have preceded them in the profession. Equally as important, we want you to
have access to associates who can retire their educational debt early and be
better able to buy into existing practices. Finally, we want WSU veterinary
alumni, present and future, to proudly create and support an unmatched
heritage and culture of giving to those who follow.
Won’t you join us and become a member of WSU’s Heritage Scholarship
Fund with your gift?
or complete
this form and mail to:
Lynne T. Haley
Director of Development, Veterinary
Development & External Relations
PO Box 647010
Washington State University
Pullman WA 99164-7010
Telephone: 509-335-5021
Fax: 509-335-2132
Email:
lhaley@vetmed.wsu.edu
or contact a specific member of
our staff
PDF Brochure of the WSU Veterinary Heritage Scholarship Fund for Printing
Last Edited: Jan 02, 2008 2:17 PM
