Alumni Engagement Strategies
As of October 1, 2022, CASE requires all attendees, exhibitors, and staff to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 test results prior to participating in person at any conference.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss best practices in developing alumni communities and networks to achieve institutional priorities.
- Brainstorm strategies on volunteer recruitment to enhance the effectiveness of alumni communities and networks.
- Enhance your interpersonal skills to build stronger professional relationships
- Identify and analyze data to measure constituent engagement
- Assemble a toolkit to support a more person-centered, relationship-based approach to engage alumni communities and networks.
Who Should Attend
- Alumni relations professionals (directors, associate and assistant directors and program coordinators)
- Coordinators of student programs, young alumni programs, career services
- Annual fund/development professionals
- Regional development officers
- Volunteer club and chapter organizers
Meet Your Chair
Josh Harraman
Josh Harraman serves as the Director, Constituent Experiences- Strategy for The Ohio State University. He recently returned to the University in January 2023. In this role, he is responsible for central engagement and individual annual giving efforts that include digital engagement, annual giving, lifelong learning, alumni travel, alumni career services, and episodic volunteerism. He is also responsible for developing partnerships with college and units in the annual giving and early engagement acquisition space.
Prior to returning to Ohio to start a family, Harraman served as the Vice President for Alumni Engagement, Annual Giving, and Advancement Communications at the Rutgers University Foundation. For over 5 years, he had responsibility for University-wide alumni engagement and annual giving activities and the Foundation’s communication professionals. In addition to his experiences at Rutgers and Ohio State, Harraman previously worked at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and focused on student leadership and involvement. He received his bachelor’s degree in history from The Ohio State University, master’s degree in college student personnel from Bowling Green State University and completed his doctoral degree in educational philosophy at The Ohio State University in 2019.
Harraman has presented at multiple CASE conferences including CASE Districts V and VI, CASE Young Alumni and Student Engagement Conference, CASE ASAP conferences, and served on the faculty and as co-chair of the CASE Summer Institute in Alumni Relations. He has also volunteered for nearly two decades with CASE District V and has served as Conference Chair and District Chair-Elect in addition to other roles. In 2020, Harraman was recognized by his peers for service to CASE District V by receiving the Mike Ziemianski Distinguished Service Award.