We all want to do more for our alumni. The question is: Where do we start?
Setting institutional priorities means balancing the desires of our alumni, the needs of existing programs, and the resources required to develop new ones.
We asked Kean University's Director of Alumni Relations, Stella Maher, to share what her team's priorities are.
Sometimes, alumni engagement is more art than science.
That art requires a deep understanding of and affinity for your alumni community. So who better to engage that community than alumni themselves?
Willamette University in Salem, Oregon has taken that point to heart. Willamette succeeds in engaging its young alumni by leveraging the generosity of its broader alumni network.
We asked Devin Bales, Willamette's alumni and parent relations associate, and a Willamette alumnus himself, to shed some light on Willamette's most successful strategies.
Recently, we've been getting questions specifically about how Switchboard helps students and alumni advance their careers. So our dev team pulled some numbers on career-related posts across all higher ed Switchboards.
The results are clear: Students and alumni trust Switchboard to help them find their next job and plan their careers in the long-term.