As student groups throughout the nation demand more diversity on their campuses, administrators have to consider many constituencies, including students (those protesting and those not) and professors with a range of views. Yet one of the loudest groups isn’t even on campus. Alumni. As protests ripple through college campuses, alumni are far from shy in sharing their viewpoints and frustrations with their alma maters. Around the country, alumni responses to race protests are flooding presidents’ email inboxes and college’s social media accounts. And the heightened attention from alumni -- who will sometimes threaten to cease philanthropic support if they’re unhappy with an institution's direction -- asks the question of whether the racial protests roiling college campuses throughout America also have the potential to negatively impact university fund-raising.

December 9, 2015 ・ From Inside Higher Ed