Appendix A.5. Council for Advancement and Support of Education

Voluntary Support of Education survey

The Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey has collected data on fundraising at public and private colleges and universities (as well as a sample of precollege institutions) in the United States since 1957. The Council for Aid to Education (CAE) managed the survey from 1957 to 2017. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) currently manages the survey, after having acquired it from CAE in 2018. CASE is a global nonprofit membership association of educational institutions that helps develop the communities of professional practice that build institutional resilience and success in challenging times. The communities include staff engaged in alumni relations, advancement services, communications, fundraising, government relations, marketing, and student recruitment.

The VSE survey is conducted online, and all accredited higher education institutions are eligible to participate. The number of U.S. higher education participants in 2018 was 929, a number that represented about one-third of colleges and universities in the United States but raised about 80 percent of total voluntary support of U.S. higher education institutions in the 2017–18 academic fiscal year.

The "Voluntary Support of Education Data & Research Findings" page (https://www.case.org/resources/voluntary-support-education-data-research-findings) on the CASE website provides information and the latest research briefs on the VSE survey. The AMAtlas Data Miner (https://www.case.org/resources/amatlas-data-miner) makes available, by subscription, 20 years of VSE survey data from approximately 1,000 public and private U.S. higher education institutions and a select group of private precollege institutions.

Further information on the VSE survey may be obtained from

Council for Advancement and Support of Education
1201 Eye Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
https://www.case.org/resources/voluntary-support-education-data-research-findings