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How To Smother Alumni Engagement In 5 Easy Steps

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

34 Inexpensive Alumni Engagement Ideas

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.

The Two Types of Alumni Loyalty, and How to Earn Them

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.

The Disheartening State Of Alumni Relations

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

Are Your Alumni Benefits Stuck in the 80's?

Top rated alumni benefits vs.those stuck in the 1980s. Content and Career services rate highest, campus benefits and revenue programs are least engaging

It's Like 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.

What the Power 5 Conference Alumni Organizations Can Teach the Rest of Us

We can learn a thing or two from how the big alumni organization engage their alumni.

The Seven Deadly Sins in Alumni Engagement

Here are seven uninspired practices that are downright blasphemous when it comes to alumni engagement.

The Ultimate Guide to Alumni Discounts - Download The eBook

For alumni/advancement professionals, what benefit can appeal to all your alumni? A new ebook sheds light on the topic and offers a solution. Alumni discounts.

Genius Hacks into Alumni Relations...and Other Myths

There are no hacks into alumni relations, Here's why institutions should stop trying to shortcut the natural process of nurturing alumni relationships.

Run Away (From Your Dues-Paying Alumni Program)

Dues-paying alumni programs are not successful at institutions other than large, Power 5 conferences schools. Here's why you shouldn't consider starting one.