2. ON-CAMPUS
• National Alumni Board
• 2 alumni awards events
• Alumni Weekend
• Food for Thought
• SA Making Connections
• Flag carriers
• Young Alumni events
3. OFF-CAMPUS
• Making Connections
• Alumni visits
• Chapter events
• Career Network
• Inaugurations
• Parades: Battles of Flowers, River
• Health Care Alumni Association
4. STUDENTS
• Ring Ceremony
• Wine, Dine, and Act Fine
• New Student Orientation; C2C
• Time Capsules; Senior Week
• Last Great Reception
• Sophomore Ice Cream Social
• Student Service Awards
5. VIRTUAL WORLD
• AlumNet
• Chapter leadership video
• Lectures online
• Online directory
• Online community
• Lists and e-mails
• LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
Thank you for this opportunity. Sidebar: you’ve made a good choice in Lisa. Done this presentation before and we could easily fill a couple of hours talking about all the things we do in Alumni Relations. Because you have participated in them you know about events like our two alumni award events in the Great Hall in the fall and spring, NAB, Food for Thought, and Alumni Weekend. So I will not go in to great detail about those events. AR mission: statement and the role we play in bridging the gap Make up of the office Events and services
NAB: 6 standing committees, work on interaction with alumni in chapters, alumni out of chapters, communication, current students, recruitment of new students, and giving 2 awards events AW: 24 events, 900 alumni and guests last year (but over 1500 touchpoints) FFT SA Making Connections Commencement and Convocation flag carriers Cooking class at Maggiano’s, brand new Home Buying: 23 (no alcohol, free, inaugural), 3 back to campus, will videotape next time
Winter/spring break Making Connections: between 9-14 each yr. Young alumni visits in DC, Houston, SA, NY, Austin, SF, Dallas, Ft Worth, Denver (budgeted for 100 but 117 last year) [LISA COMMENT] 18 chapters and 5 chapters-in-formation for a total of 23. Chapter events (119 events in 2012 with over 3000 attendees). CHAPTER events so not AW, not awards dinners, not things the OFFICE does. When I started, 19 total chapters and in-formation. Nashville will probably be next. Career Network (over 500 alumni) Inaugurations (15) Battle of Flowers parade balloon carriers and River Parade float Health Care Alumni Association (over 1600): new venture, very time consuming. It’s sort of like the fraternity and sorority alumni. A small group that takes up a lot of time. Board mtg every other month by phone Duce Award in Chicago in March Onsite board mtgs in Chicago and at AW 2 newsletters per yr Golf tournament at AW University budget
Ring Ceremony: sell rings 2x per year, ceremony during spring family weekend, TUAA pres makes mention of rings in Dec and May graduations [LISA COMMENT] Wine, Dine, and Act Fine New Student Orientation and Countdown to Commencement (C2C): bookends Time Capsules Senior Week including Tower Climb for Dec & May grads and Sr. Happy Hour Last Great Reception Sophomore Ice Cream Social Student Service Awards: 2 but 3 the last few yrs
Come a long way w/technology (6 yrs): credit card machines, credit cards #s through e-mail AlumNet: over 16,000 alumni, 20 year anniv in Sept, touted in the Chronicle at the time as the first e-newsletter in alumni relations Chapter leadership video and other leadership resources Provide links to lectures online: all FFT, awards dinners, LGR Online directory Online community Provide lists/send out e-mails to fraternities and sororities, departments Receive e-mails: everything that went out about fraternities and sororities to alumni, your monthly update to alumni, etc. LinkedIn (over 3500 in the one I moderate), Facebook (young alumni page, chapter pages), Twitter: on for 3.5 yrs, about 9000 tweets, over 1600 alumni and students I’m following, over 900 following me What do we post? Events, live tweets, newspaper clipping, who we are visiting, who is visiting us, history, jobs, photos (New Orleans). Just added live tweeting to SAMC.
BOT and others have mentioned that Trinity does not have traditions. With the changing nature of our campuses and student body, that may well be true. Working with our students holds the key to these traditions. They don’t know that a tradition is only 6 years old. And the Alumni Relations Office is integral to creating new traditions like some you have heard about: climbing the Tower, class rings, alumni flag carriers at events. In addition, always exploring new ones like Homecoming.
