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CASE ASAP Network Convention

CASE ASAP Network Convention

CASE Conference for Student Advancement
  • CASE ASAP Network Convention
  • Student Alumni Associations Symposium
  • Engaging Students in Philanthropy Symposium
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Join more than 700 student leaders and advisers at the CASE ASAP Network Convention as we prepare your student advancement organization for success. The program is designed to provide the tools you need to elevate your program while learning best practices from peers.

   

Benefits of Attending

  • Hear about best practices and hot topics in student advancement from your peers.
  • Interact with students during more than 60 workshops.
  • Recognize outstanding programs at the CASE ASAP Network Awards Banquet.
  • Explore a career in educational advancement.

 

Who Should Attend

Students, advisers of student advancement groups and alumni relations directors

Program

2:00 PM
Registration

7:00-9:00
Welcome and Roll Call

8:30-9:45 AM
Breakfast

10:00-10:45 
CASE ASAP District Meetings

11:00-11:45 

Concurrent Sessions 1

EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
Capitalizing on Meaningful Moments
By planning around your campus' most exciting moments, you can leverage existing energy to build enthusiasm about your events. Find out how Oklahoma State's Student Foundation uses existing events like Homecoming and Giving Day to enhance their programming. 
Oklahoma State University Student Foundation

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
Encouraging Total Investment in the Mission
Getting your membership to be totally invested in your organization starts with a clear understanding of your mission and the impact your organization hopes to achieve on campus and beyond. Join the Baylor University Student Foundation leadership team to learn more about its approach to members’ investment in their mission. They encourage each of their members to invest time, talent and treasure and let them know how these small acts of generosity can multiply into a cumulative, grand impact on campus.
Baylor University Student Foundation 

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
Florida Cicerones: Recruitment and Retention
Learn how to create a brand strategy and draft marketing guidelines to successfully execute a recruitment campaign. Understand ways to retain your current membership by empowering members to be the best student ambassadors they can be.
University of Florida - Florida Cicerones

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
Join SAA: A Year-Round Process
The Georgia Institute of Technology Student Alumni Association (SAA) begins recruiting members during the summer and continues recruiting until graduation. Find out how they market SAA via orientation, housing, campus partners and digitally and learn to grow your own SAA membership.
Georgia Institute of Technology Student Alumni Association

STUDENT FOUNDATIONS, FUNDRAISING/STUDENT PHILANTHROPY
Tag Day: Celebrating and Creating a Culture of Philanthropy on Campus
This year, VCU hosted their first annual Philanthropy Week and Tag Day initiative to celebrate the positive impact and role that private giving has had on campus. Find out how your organization can work to develop increased awareness and philanthropy-education programming on your own campus.
Virginia Commonwealth University Students Today Alumni Tomorrow (STAT)

STUDENT AMBASSADORS
Using Campus-Wide Partnerships to Promote Your Organization
Learn how to promote your organization by partnering with other on-campus student groups. The University of Delaware promotes Student Alumni Ambassadors and #UDBucketList—which encourages students to complete several events before they graduate—by partnering with athletic teams, nonprofit organizations and various student groups to maximize student involvement on campus. Learn how to establish these partnerships in an effort market your organization and its traditions. By partnering with other on-campus groups, you can spread your organization's campus presence and more importantly, your mission of lasting school unity and pride.
University of Delaware Student Alumni Ambassadors (UDSAA)

STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Peer Leadership: How to Organize, Strategize and Implement as a Student Leader
A team's leader is responsible for a team's success or failure. To that end, effective leadership is crucial. Review key leadership strategies used by the president of Stetson University's 35-member Student Philanthropy Organization to empower the seven student vice presidents of the group. Learn how the president coaches the vice presidents to lead and empower their team members, how to distinguish between management and leadership, and how to contextualize personalities in leadership and teamwork. Explore the dynamic between the president and the group’s advisor and get suggestions for managing up and improving collaboration.
Stetson University, Green, White and YOU!

NOON-1:30 PM
Keynote Lunch  

2:00-2:45 

Concurrent Sessions 2

EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
Terps Under 30: A TED-talk Event
The Student Alumni Leadership Council at the University of Maryland hosted the second annual Terps Under 30 event this year, attracting more than 200 current students and alumni. Terps Under 30, the 2019 District 2 Outstanding Student Advancement Program, is a TED-talk style program flanked by a networking hour and a dessert reception where featuring three recent graduates from various class years, academic colleges and industries. Find out how they designed, planned and executed this widely successful event that attracts more than 200 current students and alumni annually.
University of Maryland Student Alumni Leadership Council

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
Expanding Your Nest: Recruitment Through Collaboration
With so many options to get involved on campus and overbooked student schedules, how do you attract the best student leaders to your organization? Despite the more than 150 student organizations at the University of Southern Indiana, the USI Student Alumni Association (SAA) has been successful in recruiting and retaining members through campus collaboration. Having a solid recruitment strategy is key to growing your organization. Learn how USI SAA implemented several recruitment strategies including collaborating with other student organizations and find out how your organization can benefit from devising a similar recruitment plan.
University of Southern Indiana Student Alumni Association

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
The MUSS: Building Alumni Through Athletics
The MUSS (Mighty Utah Student Section) is the student athletic fan club at the University of Utah. Find out about the history of the MUSS, how they partner with their Student Alumni Board, and how they create memorable experiences for students while they are on campus, which then translates into actively engaged alumni.
University of Utah Alumni Association Student Alumni Board and the MUSS Board

STUDENT FOUNDATIONS, FUNDRAISING/STUDENT PHILANTHROPY
Talking About Giving
Members of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey TAG Team share their tips and best practices for making philanthropy discussions relatable to students. Learn how to diversify messaging depending on class year, the best ways to reach out to culture centers, clubs and organizations, and how to connect with nontraditional versus traditional students.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey TAG Team

STUDENT AMBASSADORS
The Evolution of a Young Alumni Networking Dinner
Encouraging students to network with alumni can be challenging without the right program to inspire meaningful conversation. To students, alumni can sometimes seem intimidating because they've made significant strides in their careers and lives. The Young Alumni Networking Dinner connects students with alumni by guiding them through the networking process. Discuss the different aspects that must be considered when planning the dinner and the various benefits that result from fostering engagement between students and young alumni.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania IUP Ambassadors (Student Alumni Association)

STUDENT AMBASSADORS
A Holistic Approach to Member Engagement
The Georgia Institute of Technology Student Ambassadors implemented a series of membership improvements in the last year and saw a major shift in the overall member experience. They developed new policies to ensure members understood their organizational responsibilities, and improved morale by creating more member enrichment initiatives. Find out how they set clear expectations and enforced bylaws without sacrificing the tight-knit culture within the organization. Get ideas for holding your members accountable, for developing future leaders and for building a stronger organization.
Georgia Institute of Technology Student Ambassadors

STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Taking Your Leadership to the Next Level
No matter the size of your organization, strength and success begin with the leadership team. The University of Oklahoma's Student Alumni Board has experienced two years of change within their leadership team in order to provide growth and to attain a vision. These experiences have led them to achievements and improvements. Explore their structure, selection process and the functionality within the student alumni board to find an opportunity of success for your own organization.
University of Oklahoma Student Alumni Board

3:00-3:45 

Concurrent Sessions 3

EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
All-Campus Sings: Starting, Boosting, and Sustaining a Musical Campus Tradition
All-campus sing traditions have been around for more than half a century. Learn what it takes to put on an all-campus sing and explore the similarities and differences between campuses. Learn from the Ouachita Baptist University Student Foundation members about what has worked and the challenges they've seen throughout OSF's 40 years of producing Tiger Tunes—now selling out four performances that involve more than half the student body. Get some tips and tricks to launch, boost or sustain a vibrant all-campus sing tradition.
Ouachita Baptist University Foundation

EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
Partnerships on Miami's Campus: The Power of Collaboration
The Miami University Student Foundation (MUSF) partners with many student organizations on campus to complete several large-scale campus events, including Homecoming Weekend and Family Weekend. They partner with Miami Activities and Programming (MAP) to host the Family Weekend Auction and Brunch, which has seen significant growth in the past two years. Throughout the year, they work to incorporate a social media strategy into other campus organizations by a mutual support and engagement with posts. The relationship that MUSF has with their alumni association strongly represents the Miami community support system. MUSF members are supported in career advancement and connections by the alumni association and foster connections in getting the alumni association's presence on campus. Find out how they do it.
Miami University Student Foundation (MUSF)

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
The Membership Limit Does Not Exist
Learn how to engage general members and keep them involved with your organization. Explore the use of teams and specific events—such as retreats—to bolster involvement and foster greater camaraderie between members. Keeping members involved outside of weekly meetings is key to maintaining membership.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Alumni Society

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
Using Technology to Increase Student Advancement
Engagement requires networking, fundraising and connecting with individuals of all backgrounds, as well as coding or planning programs that will make life more practical, meaningful and accessible. How can you use technology to build strong communities, develop relationships, create connections and strengthen student advancement? This session provides insight on accessible and practical databases, selection of programs, student advancement events on or off campus, recruitment, retaining members, cultivating students to be active young alumni, philanthropy and leadership programming, CRM within members, and base growth through advancement.
Smith College Student Ambassador Program

STUDENT FOUNDATIONS, FUNDRAISING/STUDENT PHILANTHROPY
For Students, by Students: Engaging with Philanthropy
How do you create successful campaigns to engage students with philanthropy? Learn from Ohio State University's Student Philanthropy Council about crafting programs to encourage students to express their gratitude and give back. From passing out 2,000 Valentine cards to increasing student participation on Day of Giving by more than 300 students, they’ve got tried-and-true ideas to share, including the strategy behind their educational speaker series, Thank-a-Donor Day, and Day of Giving programs.
Ohio State University Student Philanthropy Council

STUDENT AMBASSADORS
Give What You Can and Go the Extra Mile
When Appalachian State University is in session, the student population doubles the size of their small college town. With that in mind, the Appalachian Student Ambassadors find different ways to give back to the community of Boone, North Carolina. With two major events, the Nearly Naked Mile and the annual Canned Food Drive, the Ambassadors help bring together the community and the students to support one another. Raising more than 700 articles of clothing and more than 20,000 pounds of food, learn how their organization gets active and engaged through friendly competitions, puppy play dates and running bare.
Appalachian State University, Appalachian Student Ambassadors

4:00-5:00 
Marketplace Open

5:00-6:00 
Networking Reception for Advisers and Symposium Attendees

7:00
A Night at Camden Yards: Baltimore Orioles vs. Toronto Blue Jays
Tickets available for purchase at https://groupmatics.events/event/Case(link is external)

8:30-9:45 AM
Breakfast

10:00-10:45

Concurrent Sessions 4

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
365 Days of Membership: A Year-Long Approach to Recruitment and Retention
The University of Cincinnati Student Alumni Council shares their year-long approach to membership, recruitment and retention. In the past year, their executive team has critically and creatively evaluated and restructured the processes in order to better serve their organization. They discuss their missteps and best strategies throughout the past year and highlight the ways in which they plan to finish out UC's Bicentennial Year strong.
University of Cincinnati Student Alumni Council

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
Make a STATEment within Your Organization
The Iowa State Alumni Association and the Student Alumni Leadership Council pride themselves on creating a diverse group of student leaders on campus. Learn how the leaders of SALC encourage group collaboration and inter-committee relationships within their organization. Explore how to provide leadership growth opportunities and create a student organization with diverse backgrounds, skills and personalities to develop strong leaders that will “Make a STATEment” at Iowa State.
Iowa State University Student Alumni Leadership Council

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
Pass It On: Building an Organization for Success, Year After Year
The Student Alumni Association at UCLA, a CASE ASAP Award Winning Organization, has been an integral part of the UCLA campus since 1985. One of the most important and challenging parts of leading and maintaining a respected student organization is finding the balance between structure, accountability and member success. Presenters walk you through a year of leadership in their organization through three distinct phases: transitioning a new board, building the next year’s organization and ensuring success throughout the year.
UCLA Student Alumni Association

STUDENT FOUNDATIONS, FUNDRAISING/STUDENT PHILANTHROPY
Selling Philanthropy to Students: Make Every Gift Count
The Georgia Tech Student Foundation works to create compelling messaging to encourage students to have an active role in philanthropy. Learn more about how the Development Committee uses events to ensure students are knowledgeable about the importance of giving back and allows them to have their say in how their gift impacts campus. They use a multilevel approach for educating, engaging and stewarding student donors, which motivates 1/3 of Georgia Tech’s student body to give back.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech Student Foundation

STUDENT AMBASSADORS
Extra! Extra! Read All About It: Digitally Engaging Your Alumni
At the University of Pittsburgh Blue and Gold Society, the alumni LOVE to keep tabs on what’s happening in Alumni Hall. Aside from using social media to keep their alumni engaged, they introduced a newsletter, The Monthly Rugby, which has been met with resounding praise. Learn how to keep your most dedicated students engaged after graduation.
University of Pittsburgh Blue & Gold Society

STUDENT LEADERSHIP
PD ASAP: Professional Development for Student Leaders
How can your personal student involvement in your alumni association help in your future career? Learn how to identify and articulate the transferable skills you are learning in your student leader role. Work with peers to develop effective resume bullet points regarding your student leader experience and discuss how your experience as a student leader can propel you forward in your future career.
University of South Carolina, My Carolina Alumni Association

STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Get Involved with CASE ASAP: District Representative and District Cabinet Member Opportunities
Taking on a leadership role is a great way to explore a career in higher educational advancement and build your resume. CASE ASAP District Representatives share available student leadership opportunities within CASE ASAP for 2019 and 2020.

11:00-11:45

Concurrent Sessions 5

EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
Alumni Networking: Creating Career Connections
Concordia College-SALT (Students and Alumni Linked Together) plans career development events with the goal of bringing students and alumni together in a meaningful way. Through both small and large events, they enable their student body to create lasting connections with alumni. Their Careers Connecting Cobbers event, the largest alumni networking event on campus, aims to prepare current students for their careers, as well as connect them with Cobber alumni who can offer advice and experience. On a smaller scale, they host informal networking events that provide a casual atmosphere for students to interact and build connections with both young alumni and faculty alumni. Find out how they do it.
Concordia College-SALT (Students and Alumni Linked Together)

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
Onboarding Members with Digital Training
Have a lot to say but not enough time to get all your new members in the room to hear it? The creation and progression of the Rutgers’ RUAA Scarlet Council’s online training has significantly improved their new member education experience. Modeling the format after a familiar online class, the use of their Facebook online training has provided them the opportunity to reach new members regardless of their class or work schedules, and actively promotes group leadership and alumni in ways they couldn't have done with a standard in-person training session. Find out about the structure of this digital training, how the work is managed and scored, the expectations of participants and what they found worked—and didn’t work—over the past two years.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey The RUAA Scarlet Council

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
Promoting Inclusion and Cultural Competence Among Tour Guides
Discuss the various methods Poly Reps, Cal Poly tour guides use to educate members on diversity and inclusion through the Outreach and Inclusion Committee. Discuss their internal programming and formed partnerships with other entities on campus with the goals of better representing their minority students, how they formed stronger relationships with underrepresented groups, how they educated their members about these topics and how they cultivated an overall environment of empathy.
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
The Last Hurrah: Celebrating a Tradition
Learn how to host a semi-annual event around graduation honoring seniors and creating a common lasting memory based on tradition. GradFest is a program that has evolved from being an event on the University of Northern Iowa campus to one now partnering with local businesses to provide food, entertainment and different services for students. Partnering has allowed them to optimize their budget and increase marketing. This event is the final tradition seniors can complete and is their first official welcome into becoming an alumnus. Find out how you can create a successful last hurrah on your own campus.
University of Northern Iowa-CATS (Connecting Alumni to Students)

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
Strengthening the Relationship with Your Alumni Association
The key to each of The Ohio State University Student-Alumni Council’s accomplishments is the support provided by their respective alumni associations. In order to fully embrace the benefits and potential provided by this relationship, council members discuss events and initiatives that foster this valuable partnership. Through a variety of events including mingling breakfasts, student-staff mentor pairings, and specific brainstorming conversations, engagement with their alumni association has never been stronger. Explore the methods they developed to connect their members with alumni association staff members.
The Ohio State University Student-Alumni Council

STUDENT FOUNDATIONS, FUNDRAISING/STUDENT PHILANTHROPY
Foundation Fundraising: Providing Scholarships to Peers to Finish their Degrees
Seeking to make a difference in the lives of your fellow students? Consider raising funds to provide scholarships to students so they can stay and finish their degrees at your institution. Students from Ouachita share how they raise more than $100,000 a year, accept applications from their peers, score applications and award scholarships each spring as they fulfill their mission of "students helping students." In 45 years, the Ouachita Student Foundation has awarded more than 1.6 million dollars to fellow students. Learn how to create a fund, help it grow and assist students in reaching their educational goals.
Ouachita Baptist University Student Foundation

STUDENT LEADERSHIP
From Classroom to Career
Navigate your way through cover letters, resumes, interviews and more. Learn how to make a lasting impression throughout the stages of the recruitment process, from application to selection. Bring any professional documents with you to review and/or update during this session.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Student Alumni Society

NOON-1:30 PM
Lunch

2:00-2:45

Concurrent Sessions 6

EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
OOzeball: Mud Volleyball for the Masses
OOzeball, UConn's longest and muddiest tradition, is an annual mud volleyball tournament. This event—now in its 36th year—has changed drastically within the last five years due to new partnerships and a location change. Find out what OOzeball is, what kind of planning it takes, about the partnerships the UConn Student Alumni Association built, and how they market it to students.
University of Connecticut Student Alumni Association

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
The 1964 Society: Three Tiers of Engagement
Cleveland State University is home to engaged learning. The 1964 Society created a three-tier structure that offers members a choice whether they want to pursue a leadership role. The first tier is as a general member. The next tier is as a presidential student ambassador. The final tier is to serve on the executive board, which fosters commitment to the organization and the university as a lifelong investment. Throughout the process they help their students set goals to be leaders. There are items that must be completed to reach each tier, fostering goal planning for each member, a commitment to the organization and the university, as well as an opportunity to hone leadership and networking skills.
Cleveland State University, The 1964 Society

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
Co-Chairing 101: Using Your Ambassadors for Successful Programming
Each year, the University of Pittsburgh Student Alumni Association hosts eight events, including the Cathedral Ball, using student ambassadors. Based on their three pillars of Networking, School Spirit and Tradition Keeping, they host diverse programming throughout the school year. From selecting co-chairs to brainstorming, they are prepared to share all their secrets with you!
University of Pittsburgh Student Alumni Association

STUDENT FOUNDATIONS, FUNDRAISING/STUDENT PHILANTHROPY
Captivating Today's Society: Skills in Social Media Strategy
K-State Proud achieved record-setting campaign success, including a 56 percent increase in donation dollars, by maximizing a strong social media outreach structure in 2019. The K-State Student Foundation’s program created a grassroots model to equip members with the tools to easily produce a strategic online presence. Focused on being applicable and user friendly, this empowerment laid the foundation to capitalize on relevant influencers and resources to highlight programming and foster donor engagement. Maintaining consistency in sharing information across all platforms and contacts streamlined communication and established a clear message to a captive audience. In a time when social media dictates visibility and requires real-time strategies, an organization’s success is reliant on the intentional cultivation of outreach efforts. Gain skills that will enable growth in social media outreach and elevate your organization’s message.
Kansas State University Student Foundation

STUDENT AMBASSADORS 
Progressing within Tradition
The Penn State Lion Ambassadors maintains a mission to foster a lifelong commitment between students and their alma mater. With a passion for Penn State and her traditions, their mission remains the same, but their approach in using tradition to communicate the mission progresses. Each year, they accept a new class of Lion Ambassadors and strive to incorporate their unique perspectives into Penn State's longstanding traditions. Through their membership process, new member education approach, touring program and unique projects, their organization has found a balance in embracing tradition, while using it as a propellant in progressing forward in reaching their goal of excellence.
Penn State Lion Ambassadors

STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Top 10 Tips and Tricks for Cohesion and Success in Student Advancement Groups
Advisors and students learn and share best practices for managing and motivating student leaders (whether student leaders are your advisees or peers) so that your group can be successful, cohesive and always moving forward. Advisors share "things we wish our students knew" so that students can consider methods for leading their peers, and advisors can begin to tackle some of the challenges of building and growing a thriving student organization.
University of Massachusetts Amherst and Central Catholic High School

STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Maximizing Your Student Leader Transition Process
As advisers, we work diligently to recruit, train and retain our programs' student leaders. Then after what seems like a blink of the eye, we are back to square one with a brand-new group. Discuss how minor changes to your current transition process and meeting structure can make your transitions more effective and efficient, empower your student leaders and keep you sane year after year.
Iowa State University Alumni Association-Student Alumni Leadership Council

3:00-3:45

Concurrent Sessions 7

EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
Incorporating Membership into Your Signature Programs
As a membership-based organization, membership recruitment and engagement are two of the Blue and White Society's top priorities. Using their largest event of the year—PS iheart U Week—as an example, their share best practices for incorporating membership into your signature programs, techniques that allowed them to triple their student-led recruitment efforts. Gain strategies that can easily be implemented at your campus, no matter the size of your organization or student body.
Pennsylvania State University Blue & White Society 

INTERNAL PROGRAMS
Transitioning Educated and Philanthropic Seniors into Engaged Young Alumni
Find out how Temple University used a series of targeted events, and unified messaging, to educate members of the senior class on the importance of giving back and fostering a lifelong relationship with Temple. In the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years, the TUGradCountdown program showed strengthened class affinity through increased senior event attendees, donors and dollars to the Senior Class Gift Campaign. To continue the success of TUGradCountdown, Beyond Broad launched in June 2018 to retain Class of 2018 donors and participants, through continued joint engagement and philanthropic, strategic messaging, and a rebranding of the existing young alumni programming.
Temple University

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
Founding a New SAA Organization
How do you start a new student-run organization focused on connecting students and alumni? The University of California San Diego Student Foundation started a new Student Alumni Associates program from the ground up. Since its inception, the SAA has planned several alumni events involving networking panels, painting and a financial literacy workshop. Discover tricks for recruiting members as a brand-new organization on campus, for cultivating a collaborative and welcoming environment among members, for planning a long-term vision and strategy, and for executing multiple events throughout the year.
University of California San Diego Student Foundation

STUDENT ALUMNI PROGRAMMING
From the Ground Up: Engaging Graduate/Professional Students
Engaging students at a graduate/professional health science center can be uniquely difficult. Most students enter graduate school with a preexisting affinity to an undergraduate institution. Having no mascot, no athletic programs and few campus traditions makes it challenging to develop school pride at a graduate level. This workshop outlines the process UNT Health Science Center took to rebrand, revitalize and relaunch an inactive student alumni association. Learn how to craft a mission statement which aligns with the institution’s mission, vision and values and attracts philanthropic and servant leaders. Find out how to collaborate with administration, student affairs, annual giving and community organizations to host programs which increase school spirit and enhance the student experience. Leave with ideas for involving students in stewardship efforts, for creating a culture of philanthropy among the student body, and for igniting a sense of university pride across campus.
UNT Health Science Center Student Alumni Association

STUDENT FOUNDATIONS, FUNDRAISING/STUDENT PHILANTHROPY
We Ship This
The Student Alumni Ambassadors at Eastern Kentucky University strive to make sure their members are prepared for the next step in life, whatever that may be. By setting up multiple styles of mentorship for each member, they foster their development as ambassadors, community members and professionals in and out of the organization. Learn about their different styles of mentorship, how it has impacted their members thus far, and how you can implement this program within your own organization.
Eastern Kentucky University Student Alumni Ambassadors

STUDENT AMBASSADORS
Establishing and Growing a Tradition: Dinner with Golden Bears
Kutztown University Presidential Ambassadors work to support events connecting current students with alumni, faculty, staff and university friends; act as ambassadors of the university; and create new traditions which enhance KU Pride. One of these new traditions is Dinner with Golden Bears, an annual dinner where students can interact with alumni and ask them questions about their careers and education in a comfortable environment. This serves as the perfect opportunity for alumni to give back to KU by sharing advice and experiences in their career fields. This past year, the event hosted 175+ students and 23 alumni for dinner. While now a successful event approaching its 7th year, Dinner with Golden Bears started with just three alumni and 18 students. This presentation looks to answer the question, “How do you establish and grow a tradition on a medium-size campus?”
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown University Presidential Ambassadors

STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Student Leader Accountability: Strategies to Keep Students Motivated and Engaged
Between academics, employment, personal lives and university involvement, student’s schedules are stretched thin and advisors are often working with some of the busiest students on campus. Living on completely different time and life schedules, advisors usually find it’s not best to be sitting up in bed at 2:00 AM having text conversations with students about the next day’s event. Advisors from Butler University and the University of Southern Indiana share strategies for making the most of your relationships with your students, while also keeping your students accountable for their work in your student advancement organization.
University of Southern Indiana Student Alumni Association and Butler University Student Foundation

4:00-6:30
Explore Baltimore

6:30-8:30
CASE ASAP Network Awards Banquet

8:30-10:30
CASE ASAP Dance Party

10:30
Convention Adjourns

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