It was my pleasure to attend the CASE ASAP 40th Annual Network Convention in New Orleans, La., last week. What a conference! Very much by the students, for the students—attendees and speakers at the the convention brought boundless enthusiasm to all things student advancement.
How can career centers and advancement offices work together? This chat was co-moderated by Erika Fields, web content communications director at the Center for Work and Service at Wellesley College. […]
Four days of dawn-to-dusk training in alumni relations sounds exhausting, doesn’t it? Not when you have witty, insightful and quotable faculty members like the five who led the 2013 CASE Summer Institute in Alumni Relations.
Is it a mistake to ask students, parents and alumni what they would change about an institution via social media? Matthew Anderson, new media coordinator at Western Washington University, doesn’t think so.
The St. Lawrence University alumni office launched “SLU in a Box”—a free, custom box filled with school spirit items for alumni and parents to use at gatherings. Posting it to Facebook increased alumni engagement by 126 percent.
“Effective crisis management starts with a plan. While every crisis is different, having a plan that provides a framework for response—and testing and practicing the plan—will allow the institution to focus on the nuances of the crisis at hand rather than routine but important details that can slow response time.”
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