The Achieve! campaign, a fundraising effort for the University that has raised over $1 billion in its past two years, and the campaign’s goals were a focus at the Board of Trustees’ first meeting of the year Thursday.

The Board of Trustees held committee meetings Thursday in its first of two days of meetings, and committees discussed fundraising and student affairs, among other issues.

Of the money raised in the previous Achieve! campaign, Nevin Kessler, vice chancellor for University Advancement, said $730.2 million went to current operations, $374.3 million went to facilities and buildings and $264.4 was allocated to endowments.

“We raised a lot of money for bricks and mortar,” he said.

Businesses and corporations contributed the most amount to the Achieve! campaign, Kessler said, with alumni and other individual donors contributing for less of the grand total.

“We did not raise a lot of money for research outside of this governmental grant program,” he said.

The amount of money donated for endowments was lower in the 2007 campaign than in the 2006 campaign, Kessler said.

“We’ve raised very little in unrestricted value,” he said.

Unrestricted values are those in which individuals can donate money for the University to use in any area it wishes.

One of the ways to try to boost fundraising, Kessler said, was to utilize viral marketing and e-mail solicitations.

Kessler said the Alumni Association had located 60 percent of the alumni’s e-mail addresses, and its goal is to get 80 percent.

Student Body President Jay Dawkins spoke in the Student and Campus Affairs Committee about his plans for the year, including those that have already begun implementation, such as football ticketing.

“The ticketing system is one that we were constantly changing,” Dawkins, a senior in civil engineering, said.

With the William & Mary game being the first to include the standby line, in which students who are without tickets can fill in empty student seats after the first quarter, Dawkins said it was a success.

“We actually reached capacity for a William and Mary game,” he said.

Dawkins said he is expecting a greater challenge for the standby line this weekend when N.C. State plays East Carolina University at Carter-Finley Stadium.

Dawkins also said Student Government is working to find new ways for students to celebrate Halloween on Hillsborough Street, including the possibility of implementing new philanthropy-based events.

With homelessness issues present on Hillsborough Street, Dawkins said students could have incentives for bringing food for food drives or including outreach groups in other activities.

Tom Stafford, vice chancellor for student affairs, said November will be a busy month for the Board of Trustees in reviewing recommendations from the Fee Review Committee and the Tuition Advisory Committee.

Fee increases and tuition increases are capped at 6.5 percent this year, he said.