The 2024 update to our popular stats page, featuring curated data about trends in higher education alumni relations, advancement and giving.

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The VAESE study shows 5 common practices smothering alumni engagement, such as over soliciting, ignoring disaffected alumni, ignoring data, no alumni benefits.

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Discover actionable insights from the 2024 VAESE Alumni Relations Study, offering key takeaways for large, medium-sized, and small institutions. Learn how staffing, budget, and tech impact engagement in higher ed.

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14 key statistics that help explain the state of alumni relations in higher education.

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Here are 34 cost-effective ways to boost alumni engagement. Some cost nothing, some require minimal investment, but all can help you attract and engage more alumni.

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Without a clear definition of alumni engagement, institutions struggle. This definition will help alumni & advancement professionals work smarter together.

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Alumni loyalty can be either transactional or emotional. When alumni are loyal emotionally, they give and engage at higher rates. Here are three best practices to achieve more emotionally engaged alumni.

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Benefits are meant to help boost alumni engagement, and must be personally relevant to be effective.

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Is alumni engagement becoming subordinate to institutional advancement / development / fundraising?

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New data trends for alumni/advancement professionals that may change how you do your job in the coming months.

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The 2020 VAESE study reveals that most alumni relations organizations could see an immediate impact on alumni engagement if they were to improve their email communication strategy.

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Poor alumni engagement is often due to an ignorance or unwillingness to follow best practices in business and marketing.

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