<p>New Chicago Maroon article on UChicago fundraising:</p>
<p>[University</a> in ?silent phase? of new fundraising campaign ? The Chicago Maroon](<a href=“Laureate discusses themes in contemporary poetry – Chicago Maroon”>Laureate discusses themes in contemporary poetry – Chicago Maroon)</p>
<p>The article doesn’t do much in the way of confidence-building. It discusses the relatively paltry amount UChicago raised last year ($255M) and mentioned the school is in it’s “silent phase” of the new capital campaign.</p>
<p>No target goal for the new campaign was given.</p>
<p>Hopefully, the campaign will be in the $4.5 - $5B range to keep up with the Joneses (Penn just raised $4B, Yale raised $4b years ago, Stanford raised $6B), but, I’m not too hopeful. </p>
<p>The new campaign needs to be big - especially with a few years of lackluster fundraising going on for the school. It’s not inspiring that in a “silent phase” year of fundraising, the school only raised $255M.</p>