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Alumni Association Establishes Advocacy Organization |
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Rebecca K. Shell |
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May 15, 2002 |
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Volunteers from UT’s Alumni Association rallied around the University today and called upon the 51,000 UT alumni throughout Ohio to send the message to their state legislators that they are against the recent budget cuts that have been imposed on higher education.
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| Patricia Scharf, Alumni Association president |
The call to action was part of the official launching of the Alumni Association’s new advocacy organization, The University of Toledo Advocacy Partners (UTAP).
UTAP has been established to help inform and encourage alumni and friends of the University to regularly contact their elected officials regarding issues that are important to The University of Toledo and higher education in Ohio.
According to Bill Fall, chairman of UTAP, the advocacy organization is a grassroots effort to aggressively promote and support the legislative issues that impact UT and other state universities. “The role of each advocate is to build and maintain personal relationships with their local legislators and elected officials,” said Fall. “It is these relationships that will enable us to get to our elected officials and change the way they think.”
The main issue that UTAP will focus on in the coming months is the current higher education funding crisis. “Our 51,000 Ohio UT Alumni are being asked to influence our elected officials in Columbus to restore higher education funding to its pre-2000 level and to develop a plan for a long-term investment in our universities,” explains Patricia Scharf, president of the Alumni Association.
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| Robinson: I'm sick and tired of the way our state government is handling its inability to balance the budget. |
Robert Robinson, incoming president of the Alumni Association adds, “I am sick and tired of the way our state government is handling its inability to balance the state budget. Ohio is being left far behind by the rest of the nation in many areas because of the lack of support for our universities."
For more information, call 419.530.ALUM.
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