Carroll University increases United Way pledges

Carroll University students, staff and faculty pledged a total of $11,596 to the 2009 United Way in Waukesha County campaign, an increase of 36 percent over the amount raised in 2008. The number of donors to the 2009 campaign increased nearly 6 percent, and the amount of the average gift increased by just over 10 percent.

Ryan T. Corcoran, a systems administrator in Carroll’s Information Technology Services Department and a Waukesha resident, organized and ran the on-campus fund-raising campaign. Ashley Frazier, a senior from Rockford, Ill., and president of the Student Senate, and Christine Gravelle, student affairs coordinator, organized the students’ campaign.

The total amount raised includes $2,325 donated by students who gave the value of hundreds of meals included in their yearly meal plans. Chartwells, Carroll’s on-campus food service provider, then converted the value of those meals to cash and included that amount in the total.

Carroll’s campaign also included a United Way Day on Nov. 16, when United Way staff and members of Carroll’s Student Senate staff distributed United Way information, and collection points for loose change and cash were designated at various places around campus.