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title: Alumni Access Blog (2)
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#### [Are Your Alumni Benefits Stuck in the 80's?](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/alumni-benefits-stuck-in-the-80s)
Top rated alumni benefits vs.those stuck in the 1980s. Content and Career services rate highest, campus benefits and revenue programs are least engaging
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#### [Stop Using These Metrics to Measure Alumni Engagement](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/stop_using_these_metrics_to_measure_alumni_engagement)
Stop Using These Metrics to Measure Alumni Engagement
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#### [The 7 Lamest Alumni Benefits](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/the_7_lamest_alumni_benefits)
Benefits are meant to help boost alumni engagement, and must be personally relevant to be effective.
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#### [Why Alumni Relations Has Grown Subordinate to Fundraising.](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/why_alumni_relations_subordinate_to_fundraising)
New data reveals evidence that alumni relations and engagement goals have become increasingly subordinated to the goals of development/fundraising.
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#### [It's Like Slapping Half Your Alumni in the Face!](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/stop-slapping-half-your-alumni-in-the-face)
Ignoring your introverted alumni population is like a slap in the face to a potentially powerful alumni segment.
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#### [What the Power 5 Conference Alumni Organizations Can Teach the Rest of Us](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/the_disheartening_state_of_alumni_relations-0)
We can learn a thing or two from how the big alumni organization engage their alumni.
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#### [In Alumni Relations...Why "Fake It "Til You Make It" Won't Cut It Anymore.](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/the-art-of-winging-it-in-alumni-relations)
Alumni professionals are often hired as generalists, but required to demonstrate skills of specialists. Is your staff development keeping pace?
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#### [The Buyer's Guide to Alumni Discount Programs](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/buyers-guide-to-alumni-discount-programs)
The buyer's guide will help alumni relations professionals identify and vet the best discount platform that will attract and engage alumni long term.
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#### [Post-Pandemic Alumni Relations: Using the 2020 VAESE Study to Prepare](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/post-pandemic-alumni-relations-using-vaese-study-to-prepare)
What the VAESE study teaches us about alumni engagement post-COVID-19, and how best to identify the digital benefits and services your alumni want.
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#### [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Alumni Relations: The VAESE Study Data](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/the-good-bad-and-the-ugly-in-alumni-relations-new-2020-vaese-study)
As alumni relations offices world-wide struggle for relevance, the 2020 VAESE alumni relations benchmarking study shows some interesting trends.
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#### [8 Things Your Mama Taught You About Alumni Engagement](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/8-things-your-mama-taught-you-about-alumni-engagement)
When it comes to running an alumni engagement program, your Mama had it all figured out.
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#### [Stop Dissing Your Millennial Alumni](https://blog.alumniaccess.com/stop-dissing-your-millennial-alumni)
Are your Millennial alumni’s “sensitivities” or “preferences” fundamentally different from other alumni? Despite all you’ve read, the answer is NO!
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