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The Cardinal Lawyer: Going green

I am pleased to announce a green initiative for all friends of the Law School. The message and several options for viewing, embedding, and sharing it are available at LawTube, the Law School's multimedia portal.

Download the audio file  of Dean Jim Chen's green initiative.

Hello, I'm Jim Chen, Dean of the University of Louisville School of Law. I'm announcing an environmental initiative to engage all of you as alumni. We'd like to communicate with you much more often through electronic media such as video messages, e-mail, my blog, and the law school's newsfeeds. Electronic media have a lower financial and environmental footprint. They also offer an immediacy that printed media lack. We'd like to engage you in a dialogue that is as deep as it is direct.

Today's video greeting brings news of special gifts. We recently secured a $100,000 gift from Wayne Bach, class of 1973, in honor of Professor Norvie Lay. Mr. Bach's gift will endow moot court competitions and benefit students who represent the University of Louisville at intercollegiate and even international competitions.

In addition, we would like to announce a tremendous $250,000 challenge gift. In each of the next three fiscal years, George Rawlings, class of 1972, has generously agreed to match the first quarter-million dollars given by all other donors. We are very grateful to Mr. Rawlings and enthusiastically invite all of you to help us meet his challenge.

Videos like this one also offer us a very effective tool for spotlighting student success, alumni achievements, and all sorts of great news that we'd like to share with you. The Law School will use electronic media to connect with its graduates and to tell your stories of success.

We hope to move a significant portion of our annual fundraising work to an electronic format. Traditionally, we send two letters each year to every graduate and supporter of the Law School. Annual gifts are vital to us. But those letters add up to significant amounts of paper.

Like you, we have become acutely aware that our planet is drowning in waste. Paper-based annual solicitations, though just a small portion of that stream, are not the most efficient use of resources. We'd like to move to modes of communication that are greener, both economically and ecologically.

I'd like you to support the Law School, and I'd like you to make your gift online. I am also asking you to commit to making a gift for each of the next five years. You will help us eliminate five years' worth of paper-based communications. In the meanwhile, we pledge to use electronic tools to the fullest, to tell you about the ways in which your gifts benefit the Law School.

On this occasion, and perhaps just this one, our school colors are red and black . . . and green. Thank you very much. And go Cards!

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Full post as published by University of Louisville Law Faculty on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).