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What is the goal of Dental Education: Our Legacy - Our Future?
Is Our Legacy - Our Future a fundraising campaign?
Who are the partners?
How can my organizations join this effort?
Who is leading this effort?
How long will this effort last?
How can I donate money to this effort?
How will my money be used?
With several new dental schools opening across the country, why does dental education need our support?
How can I learn more about Our Legacy - Our Future?
The goal of Our Legacy - Our Future is to raise awareness of the challenges facing dental education in the U.S. and to promote a culture of philanthropy within dentistry to address these issues. By raising awareness, Our Legacy - Our Future will help the partner organizations to collectively raise $500 million to address the issues facing the future of dental education.
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No, Our Legacy - Our Future is NOT a fundraising entity. It is a national effort to raise awareness and to support the partners in their individual fundraising campaigns. Our Legacy - Our Future will not collect a single dollar of its own.
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Partners include those organizations with a vested interest in the dental community, such as dental schools and universities, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and foundations. For a full list of partners, click here.
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To become a partner, contact:
Barkley Payne
Dental Education: Our Legacy - Our Future
211 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-587-4716
Email: payneb@ada.org
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Dr. Arthur A. Dugoni is the Honorary Chair of Our Legacy - Our Future. Dr. Cecile A. Feldman and Dr. Richard Haught are the Co-Chairs. Click here to learn more about the leaders.
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Our Legacy - Our Future will end on December 31, 2014. By that time, it is estimated that the partners will have generated more than $500 million for dental education.
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Make your donation directly to one of the many partners of Our Legacy - Our Future to help secure the future of dentistry today!
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Each partner will raise and utilize its own funds as it sees fit to address the issues affecting dental education. The programs will help support the many needs in dental education, such as student diversity, faculty shortages and education delivery.
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Every so often, someone questions why there is a need to support the dental education system if new schools are being built across the country. This is really a question of apples and oranges. In fact, while several communities have determined the need additional dental schools, these new schools will face the same challenges as the current schools do. New schools, while necessary, will not "solve" the problems for existing schools.
The American Dental Education Association attributes this growth in part to the shear influx of students applying to dental school. More and more people want to become dentists - but even more well-qualified and well-trained dentists are needed.
Unfortunately, this sign of growth does not imply that the dental education system is as steady and strong as we all hope that it might be. In fact, the opening of these new schools only underscores the importance of this effort. These new schools will suffer from many of the same challenges that established dental schools already face. They will still struggle to find and hire qualified full-time faculty, diversity issues will still exist, the cost to purchase the latest equipment and technology will impact them financially, and high student tuition and resulting debt will continue to lure graduates into private-practice vs. careers in academia.
And with government funding already on the decline, more schools will compete for the same limited pool of dollars, thus making private support even more important. Add to this the factor that with so much demand in dental school applications, the government will expect the profession to do its part to step up to the plate. And unlike established schools, these new schools won't be able to count on the generous philanthropy of dedicated alumni.
We wish these new schools would not have to endure the same challenges, but realistically, this only shows that it's the entire dental education system that needs our support.
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To learn more about this effort, contact:
Barkley Payne
Dental Education: Our Legacy - Our Future
211 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-587-4716
Email: payneb@ada.org
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