[82lsju]

While I get that in some senses it looks like a bit of a boondoggle, at the same time the people who make these donations are also supporters of the program. Maybe 80% is too high, but I don't think it should be eliminated entirely.

of course they could just reseat people on periodic basis and tie the reseating to some sort of scoring system that takes into "overall level of engagement" which includes a heavy weighting for donations (like Stanford did in reseating the football stadium and Maples and does for bowl game seats), then 100% of the donation would be deductible.....wink wink nudge nudge

[82lsju]

While I get that in some senses it looks like a bit of a boondoggle, at the same time the people who make these donations are also supporters of the program. Maybe 80% is too high, but I don't think it should be eliminated entirely.

of course they could just reseat people on periodic basis and tie the reseating to some sort of scoring system that takes into "overall level of engagement" which includes a heavy weighting for donations (like Stanford did in reseating the football stadium and Maples and does for bowl game seats), then 100% of the donation would be deductible.....wink wink nudge nudge