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标题：Showtime
期刊名称：The New England's Journal of Higher Education
印刷版ISSN：1938-5978
出版年度：1999
卷号：Summer 1999
出版社：New England Board of Higher Education

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Academics don't like to put too much weight on the success of college athletic programs. But could national basketball glory do for University of Connecticut fundraising what Doug Flutie did for Boston College recruitment?

Last year, while UConn's Huskies were marching to the men's national college basketball championship, the University of Connecticut Foundation was collecting $26 million in charitable gifts from private sources-a healthy 25 percent increase over the year before.

Gifts to support academic programs rose by 33 percent, while gifts earmarked for athletic programs rose by 21 percent.

The figures don't even include a recent $23 million commitment to UConn's School of Education and the university's Health Center in Farmington from 1956 graduate Ray Neag. That represents the largest gift ever received by a New England public university and the largest received by any U.S. school of education.