ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT
John Segal, ’71, funded a new business law audit program that will place selected students in mentored positions inside businesses to provide preventive legal analysis of their operations. The new program will be overseen by Clinical Professor Mark Need, ’92, faculty director of the JD/MBA program and director of the Elmore Entrepreneurship Law Clinic. ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES Calendar year 2017 gifts totaled $3.3 million, up from $3.2 million the prior year. Gifts to the annual fund, the Fund for Excellence, were $1.2 million. Booked planned gifts and pledges exceedeed $7.6 million, compared with $5.6 million in 2016. Gifts to the capital campaign stood at $45.9 million at June 30, 76% of goal. Faculty and staff gifts and pledges totaled $1.1 million. More than 30 alumni receptions with 900+ guests were held in cities throughout the US, including Bloomington, Chicago, Cincinnati, Crown Point, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Malibu, Miami, Minneapolis, Naples, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, South Bend, and Washington, DC. The development staff sent over 150 congratulatory milestone letters to alumni.