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Post by explorer88 on Jun 27, 2021 10:29:17 GMT -5
From Rothstein:
Sources: St. Joe's is aiming to announce plans in the near future regarding a brand new practice facility for basketball as part of a major campus transformation.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 27, 2021 11:00:11 GMT -5
They announced a Campus Master Plan in their Alumni Magazine in Fall 2019. The underpass they plan to build below City Line is interesting. It's nice when a vision is communicated. "Reed describes the plan’s top priorities in waves, with the initial wave including a full renovation of O’Pake Recreation Center in the Maguire Campus district; an addition to Merion Hall for the Kinney Center for Autism Education and Support, a new student center and residential quad in the Main Campus district; the City Avenue pedestrian underpass at Cardinal Avenue and renovations of athletic facilities." www.sju.edu/magazine/fall-2019/connected-campus
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Post by Happy Fortune on Jun 27, 2021 11:26:29 GMT -5
St. Joes is lapping us.
And Business School Dean MarySheila McDonald leaving for Villanova. All I hear is bad news these days.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 27, 2021 11:52:32 GMT -5
I wonder if McDonald was told she wouldn’t be considered as presidential successor. And I think it’s a return to Nova for her right?
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Post by 23won on Jun 27, 2021 12:29:34 GMT -5
She was at Philly U. Seems like a downstream move to go from Dean to Prof. Maybe she likes their campus better.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 27, 2021 12:52:22 GMT -5
She's moving to an endowed position funded by a $15M gift to the Law School in the fall - the John F. Scarpa Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship. You can't pass that up...especially when you live in Wayne - probably like 10 minutes from Villanova's campus plus no more City Wage Tax. www1.villanova.edu/villanova/media/pressreleases/2020/1112.htmlA core element of the Scarpa Foundation’s gift is the creation of an endowed faculty position dedicated to entrepreneurship. Housed in the Charles Widger School of Law, the John F. Scarpa Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship will be Villanova’s resident expert in entrepreneurship, focusing on the law of entrepreneurship and the development of markets. This individual will pursue scholarship, teach and serve as a teacher-scholar, thought-leader and change-agent in entrepreneurship and innovation.I'm happy for her - I was always a fan of hers and her energy and dedication to the school. Fun fact - I was her family's paper boy growing up in Drexel Hill (delivered the News of Delaware County) and we went to the same grade school - St. Andrew's - although she was 10 years before my time
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on Jun 27, 2021 13:04:50 GMT -5
She's moving to an endowed position funded by a $15M gift to the Law School in the fall - the John F. Scarpa Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship. You can't pass that up...especially when you live in Wayne - probably like 10 minutes from Villanova's campus plus no more City Wage Tax. www1.villanova.edu/villanova/media/pressreleases/2020/1112.htmlA core element of the Scarpa Foundation’s gift is the creation of an endowed faculty position dedicated to entrepreneurship. Housed in the Charles Widger School of Law, the John F. Scarpa Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship will be Villanova’s resident expert in entrepreneurship, focusing on the law of entrepreneurship and the development of markets. This individual will pursue scholarship, teach and serve as a teacher-scholar, thought-leader and change-agent in entrepreneurship and innovation.I'm happy for her - I was always a fan of hers and her energy and dedication to the school. Fun fact - I was her family's paper boy growing up in Drexel Hill (delivered the News of Delaware County) and we went to the same grade school - St. Andrew's - although she was 10 years before my time And there's the reason I knew I didn't like you Glitter, haha. #StDotsistheBest
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 27, 2021 13:07:36 GMT -5
She's moving to an endowed position funded by a $15M gift to the Law School in the fall - the John F. Scarpa Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship. You can't pass that up...especially when you live in Wayne - probably like 10 minutes from Villanova's campus plus no more City Wage Tax. www1.villanova.edu/villanova/media/pressreleases/2020/1112.htmlA core element of the Scarpa Foundation’s gift is the creation of an endowed faculty position dedicated to entrepreneurship. Housed in the Charles Widger School of Law, the John F. Scarpa Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship will be Villanova’s resident expert in entrepreneurship, focusing on the law of entrepreneurship and the development of markets. This individual will pursue scholarship, teach and serve as a teacher-scholar, thought-leader and change-agent in entrepreneurship and innovation.I'm happy for her - I was always a fan of hers and her energy and dedication to the school. Fun fact - I was her family's paper boy growing up in Drexel Hill (delivered the News of Delaware County) and we went to the same grade school - St. Andrew's - although she was 10 years before my time And there's the reason I knew I didn't like you Glitter, haha. #StDotsistheBest Just don't tell me you went to O'Hara.
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on Jun 27, 2021 13:15:43 GMT -5
And there's the reason I knew I didn't like you Glitter, haha. #StDotsistheBest Just don't tell me you went to O'Hara. PREP
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 27, 2021 13:18:43 GMT -5
Just don't tell me you went to O'Hara. PREP 3 of my younger cousins grew up in Dot's and went to the Prep. They would have graduated the Prep between 95 and 03 I think...somewhere in that time frame...but they went to Holy Child, not St. Dot's
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 27, 2021 15:50:03 GMT -5
All this Delco O’Hara Villanova Prep talk…yuck
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on Jun 27, 2021 19:37:29 GMT -5
All this Delco O’Hara Villanova Prep talk…yuck I moved the talk to messages so you wouldn't delete it all, BTW, Dr. Reed was a year behind me at the Prep. Kid has got things going in a good direction on Hawk Hill. Makes me want to puke we can't find someone like that.
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Post by gymrat67 on Jun 29, 2021 11:51:40 GMT -5
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Post by joe on Jun 29, 2021 12:39:15 GMT -5
Great! St Joe has a plan and La Salle hired a 3rd party to review gender equity. Lawyers will clean up.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 29, 2021 13:56:10 GMT -5
Yeah, but their master plan has nothing about dog dorms or Adirondack Chairs. Who needs an indoor turf field and basketball practice facility when you have those? Ironically, they are expanding their Art Museum in Phase 1 of their plan.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 29, 2021 16:51:47 GMT -5
Yeah, but their master plan has nothing about dog dorms or Adirondack Chairs. Who needs an indoor turf field and basketball practice facility when you have those? Ironically, they are expanding their Art Museum in Phase 1 of their plan. If La Salle had a family willing to give them $95 million I think they’d find a good way to spend it as well. Like comparing apples to apples made out of gold.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 29, 2021 17:43:50 GMT -5
Yeah, but their master plan has nothing about dog dorms or Adirondack Chairs. Who needs an indoor turf field and basketball practice facility when you have those? Ironically, they are expanding their Art Museum in Phase 1 of their plan. If La Salle had a family willing to give them $95 million I think they’d find a good way to spend it as well. Like comparing apples to apples made out of gold. Are you basing that on how well they've spent the Glaser donation over the past 8 years? They launch a $55M campaign with a lead gift of $20M. We've launched what exactly with our lead gift from 2013?
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 29, 2021 18:51:02 GMT -5
The gifts aren’t close to the same. I’m as jealous as anyone of St Joe’s financial prowess but the Maguire’s gift is both pointed and bigger than Glaser’s. And they have more land. And they have other large donors. Different leagues.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 29, 2021 20:45:33 GMT -5
You just listed a lot of excuses for inaction. Maybe if we showed we knew what to do with $5M, donors would line up to give more. We have people on staff paid to land those big donors, but the haven't. The theme echoed here for years has been "where is the plan?". Donors will rally around a plan.
And...different leagues...but they are in our league. Maybe we are in the wrong league.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 29, 2021 21:03:01 GMT -5
Speaking of financial prowess, the public 990's were just released for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2020. I just pulled them up and was surprised to find we were still paying G. He had one heck of a buy-out! Am curious if we still paid him for 2020-21..I guess we will see in a year. La Salle paid G $777.3K while paying Ash $347.8K in 2018-19. La Salle paid G $603.2K while paying Ash $503.7K in 2019-20. Knock yourself out if you want to dive into the numbers. Our endowment and revenue dropped from the 2019 numbers I had posted before. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/231352654
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Post by diehardexplorer on Jun 29, 2021 21:16:16 GMT -5
The gifts aren’t close to the same. I’m as jealous as anyone of St Joe’s financial prowess but the Maguire’s gift is both pointed and bigger than Glaser’s. And they have more land. And they have other large donors. Different leagues. from what i've been told, glaser's gift has grown to the $10m range, and it's a pointed gift. not sure what la salle's facility plan is, but at most, my guess is it's no more than half of the $55m that st joe's (pa) is looking to raise. and la salle's main campus (133 acres) has more land than st joe's (125 acres) main campus. the usciences acquisition will give them another 24 acres but none of the $55m will be used to do anything there. and did you really "like" your own post? lol.
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Post by diehardexplorer on Jun 29, 2021 21:20:05 GMT -5
You just listed a lot of excuses for inaction. Maybe if we showed we knew what to do with $5M, donors would line up to give more. We have people on staff paid to land those big donors, but the haven't. The theme echoed here for years has been "where is the plan?". Donors will rally around a plan. And...different leagues...but they are in our league. Maybe we are in the wrong league. exactly. i also heard that at least one major donor to the athletic facilities upgrade pulled out because the lack of a plan.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 29, 2021 22:23:35 GMT -5
Remember a couple of months ago when the apologists on here said...well...we couldn't make a plan because of Covid. I guess Covid didn't hit City Line as hard.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 30, 2021 4:17:44 GMT -5
You just listed a lot of excuses for inaction. Maybe if we showed we knew what to do with $5M, donors would line up to give more. We have people on staff paid to land those big donors, but the haven't. The theme echoed here for years has been "where is the plan?". Donors will rally around a plan. And...different leagues...but they are in our league. Maybe we are in the wrong league. exactly. i also heard that at least one major donor to the athletic facilities upgrade pulled out because the lack of a plan. If this is the case then you’re right. I don’t understand why, for three decades now, St. Joe’s is able to raise a ton of money from their wealthy donors while La Salle is not. As far as I can tell, the money isn’t out there but you guys keep saying that these people exist.
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Post by las71 on Jun 30, 2021 6:25:33 GMT -5
How is the school supposed to plan without a financial commitment. If there's rich alums that aren't aware of our financial circumstances, they aren't interested enough to make a large commitment anyway. There is nothing stopping them from scheduling a meeting with administrators and indicating they are willing to make a substantial donation. We don't have a Maguire. If we did and they made a $95M pledge, I'm sure our people could come up with a suitable plan.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 30, 2021 7:02:59 GMT -5
How is the school supposed to plan without a financial commitment. If there's rich alums that aren't aware of our financial circumstances, they aren't interested enough to make a large commitment anyway. There is nothing stopping them from scheduling a meeting with administrators and indicating they are willing to make a substantial donation. We don't have a Maguire. If we did and they made a $95M pledge, I'm sure our people could come up with a suitable plan. It's not incumbent on people with money to schedule meetings with the administration. The administration has people assigned to go after these targets. People with $10M to donate will not donate without a plan. They didn't get $10M by chasing hope. They won't throw good money after bad. Saying "we are working on that plan" doesn't cut it. You can't go to these people and say "Just give us money and we will come up with something." Was invited to a meeting almost 2 years ago with a guy who could write a check to match the Glaser donation without batting an eye. There was a presentation from the Business School and a former member of the men's team who is active with the school was invited. At the end of the dog-and-pony show, the guy wanted to know why he wasn't seeing a plan to show what would happen if he decided to donate. "We're coming up with that" was the answer...to which the guy launched into the standard "hope is not a strategy" talk. My takeaway was that members of the school were annoyed hearing that from him, instead of maybe taking his feedback as a wakeup call to come up with a plan.
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Post by las71 on Jun 30, 2021 7:15:11 GMT -5
Maybe he just didn't want to give!
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 30, 2021 7:21:23 GMT -5
Maybe he just didn't want to give! or maybe he doesn’t exist. If you’re on here guy, speak your truth. Otherwise, it’s all conjecture.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 30, 2021 7:58:12 GMT -5
Maybe he just didn't want to give! or maybe he doesn’t exist. If you’re on here guy, speak your truth. Otherwise, it’s all conjecture. Feel free to ask Kale. He was there...or Greg Webster if you're so inclined as he was the basketball player who came along. I'll await your apology when you get confirmation on my "conjecture". I think the guy did want to give since he hosted us at his country club for the meeting.
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Post by las71 on Jun 30, 2021 8:04:48 GMT -5
If he really wanted to give, he would find a way to give. Maybe he should reflect on the value of his alma mater and what role his La Salle education played in helping him achieve his success.
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