Alumni Engagement Strategies 2023
This conference is designed for advancement professionals with at least two years of experience and professionals with mid-level responsibility.
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
Caryn Schultz Korman
Caryn Schultz Korman has been an institutional advancement professional for more than 25 years in roles that have included alumni relations, data management, and volunteer board management, engagement and fundraising. In her current role, she leads the alumni and donor engagement teams comprised of Annual Giving, Inclusive Engagement, Special Events, Stewardship and Donor Relations and the UIC Alumni Association. Previously she oversaw the alumni engagement efforts and established the first UIC Alumni Association as the inaugural Executive Director. During that time period, she developed the first UIC Alumni Board which is comprised of 70 alumni volunteers. Prior to returning to UIC in 2017, Schultz Korman held senior alumni relations roles at the University of Minnesota at its Alumni Association, Foundation and within the Medical School.
