For the University of New South Wales, the approach of its 75th anniversary in 2025 presented an opportunity to celebrate some of its pioneering alumnae and leaders. The Australian university launched an initiative to rename certain buildings and spaces and create a Celebrating UNSW Women Trail.

Advancement professionals are diligently focusing on DEIB initiatives within their teams.  And more and more of them are beginning to look outward as well. Two advancement professionals with wide experience working in the DEIB space offer practical strategies to more effectively identify, involve, solicit, and steward alumni of color.

The seeds of alumni support are sown even prior to enrolling in college.  Formative pre-college experiences play an important role in shaping pro-social habits, mindsets, and dispositions that predict later-life support for one’s alma mater.

Many agree that collecting, storing, and analyzing qualitative data is vital to advancement’s growth and an important balance to departments’ continually growing quantitative data capabilities. But is there a method that’s scalable? How can advancement professionals work with data that is, by its definition, difficult to measure? 

CASE Stellar Speakers are faculty members who earn average combined scores of 4.5 and above (on a 5-point scale) on their evaluations for a session at the conference listed. 

A stagnant birth rate. A burgeoning cohort of older adults. Migratory patterns from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and Southwest, where immigrants (largely from Latin America and Asia) are also settling. These are among the demographic changes reshaping the United States—and to a large extent the world and education sector—over the coming decades. Read how institutions are thinking about, and planning for, these changes.

For members seeking information on a variety of advancement topics, the CASE Library’s Advancement Resource Catalog provides a central stop for resources on topics including campaign planning, engaging non-traditional alumni, and the latest research in the world of advancement.

Under GDPR and other privacy regulations, educational institutions in Europe and beyond have grappled with major questions of how to collect, store, report, and use data. Use these top CASE resources for guidance, insights, and policies from other schools.

In the year and a half since GDPR went into effect, advancement professionals at educational institutions both inside and outside of the EU have learned a massive amount about how to move forward in a world of more robust privacy protection. And they know that this is only the beginning.

The chicken or the egg? The data or the story? Which comes first? Learn how (and why) to make your data accessible to a broad audience.