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EYE ON THEFutureThe Gift-seekerBrad Bodager Marks One Yearas the Law School’s Chief Fund Raiser“With a 100-plus year history and morethan 10,000 alumni located across the countryand around the world, the law school offersa community of excellence and focus on skillsand service that prepares our graduatesto make a difference.”When Brad Bodager accepted hisappointment as executive directorof the Columbus School ofLaw’s Office of Development and AlumniRelations, the operation he chose to lead littleresembled those of his past employers.For one thing, Bodager’s many yearsof experience in fund raising, developmentand strategic planning had been carriedout in all areas of institutionaladvancement. Most recently, he hadserved as vice president for advancement forPacific Research Institute in San Francisco,where he oversaw a comprehensive corporateand foundation program that raised inexcess of $3 million annually. Prior to that, hespent five years as assistant vice presidentfor development and external relations forClaremont McKenna College in California,and before that, he was with DukeUniversity School of Law for five years asdirector of campaign leadership gifts.Bodager’s career had provided anumber of highly successful ‘best practice’models for how to design and executedevelopment programs that yieldsustainable results.A fondness for Washington, D.C.,where he had earned his own LL.M.from the Georgetown Law Center,coupled with his sense that the lawschool’s alumni and development programwas a gem in the rough, wereamong the reasons Bodager movedback to the East Coast to begin atCatholic University in January 2007.One successful year later, Bodagerspoke with CUA Lawyer to assess wherethings now stand.CL: YOU’VE WORKED IN THE DEVELOPMENTPROGRAMS FOR DUKE’S LAW SCHOOL, AS WELLAS AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS WITH MORERESOURCES — SUCH AS FACULTY AND SCHOL-ARSHIP ENDOWMENT MONEY — THANCATHOLIC UNIVERSITY’S LAW SCHOOL HAS. SO,WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO THIS POSITION IN THEFIRST PLACE?BB: My interest in legal education hascontinued since my own legal studiesand as a member of the ABA and its varioussections during this time. As a memberof its section on legal education andadmission to the bar, I have developed anappreciation of the importance of legaleducation to our society and the roleplayed by national law schools such asthe Columbus School of Law. With a 100-plus year history and more than 10,000alumni located across the country andaround the world, the law school offers acommunity of excellence and focus onskills and service that prepares our graduatesto make a difference.CL: YOU’VE SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF YOURTIME HERE SO FAR POSITIONING THE LAWSCHOOL’S ALUMNI OUTREACH AND DEVELOP-MENT OPERATION A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY THANHAS BEEN DONE IN THE PAST. WHEN YOU FIRSTARRIVED, WHAT STRUCK YOU AS A HIGH PRIORITYRIGHT AWAY?4CUALAWYER /Fall–Winter 2007
BB: I think we needed to better communicateto graduates just what goeson in this building. Through its intensivelyengaged and substantive legalinstruction and programming, the lawschool offers a tremendous resourcenot only to its current students, butalso to its alumni. Our distinguishedprogramming has remarkable returnfor our students and alumni. By disseminatingword of the outstandingsymposia, conferences, speakers andother events that we host to ouralumni, friends and other members ofthe legal academy and professionthrough our Web page and theInternet, we will continue to demonstratethe excellence of our facultyand the positive trajectory of ourwonderful students and alumni.CL: BY CHANGING ITS COMPOSITION WITHNEW MEMBERS AND CREATING NEW SERV-ICE COMMITTEES, WHAT ARE YOUR HOPESFOR HOW THE BOARD OF VISITORS WILLFUNCTION FROM NOW ON?BB: The Board of Visitor membersserve as influential advisers to thedean and her staff by sharing theirknowledge of the legal professionand its challenges. By demonstratingtheir support of the law school in thisway, as well as by partnering with thedean and her staff, we will be able toachieve greater recognition of thebest aspects of this law school. Myhope is that over time, this willengage a greater number of alumniand friends to make an investment init, through their interest, time andfinancial support.CL: YOU HAVE A UNIQUE VANTAGE POINTFROM WHICH TO ASSESS THE LAWSCHOOL’S STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES ONA VARIETY OF FRONTS. WHAT ARE SOME OFTHE COLUMBUS SCHOOL OF LAW’SUNDER-APPRECIATED STRENGTHS?BB: The greatest strength of this lawschool is its truly distinguished faculty.This core group is supported by adedicated staff and led by a dynamicand visionary dean in Veryl Miles.The faculty composes a community.They are supportive and in true partnershipwith all of our students, andthe results areextremely positive.Just look at ouremployment figuresfor 2007: Nine monthsafter graduation, morethan 96 percent of ourstudents had legalpositions. More than20 accepted federalcourt clerkships over"The greatest strength ofthis law school is its trulydistinguished faculty."the same time period. We have agreat story to tell. We must work toget that news out effectively, butalso be forthright about the challengesposed by rising tuition costsand the need for more donor supportfor scholarship and faculty to remaincompetitive in a dynamic legal educationenvironment.CL: FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, WHAT WILL ASUCCESSFUL ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENTEFFORT LOOK LIKE?BB: One calculus of success wouldbe a significant increase in annualfinancial support from our alumni.The degree of alumni support ismeasured by annual donations of anysize. This will be our focus as we promotethe annual fund through dollarfor-dollarchallenges, named scholarshipsand designation options forannual giving. The amount of corporateand foundation grant fund raisingis often predicated upon what percentageof your alumni supports you.This law school community warrantsthe support of all of its 10,000 alumnion an annual basis. The ColumbusSchool of Law is a special place, andI predict that its alumni communitywill step up over the coming fiveyears to make this a reality.One year into his tenure as director of the lawschool’s development and alumni outreach programs,Brad Bodager is more convinced than ever that “Thelaw school community warrants the support of all ofits 10,000 alumni on an annual basis.”Fall–Winter 2007 / C UALAWYER 5
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