The Notre Dame University Alumni Association in Indiana, U.S., hosted its first Global Day of Service in 2023—drawing more than 3,500 volunteers for projects in 26 countries.

In 2022, Cardiff University in Wales launched The 30(ish) Awards to celebrate young (and young-at-heart) alumni making positive contributions to their communities.

For Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2021, #RSM24: Around the World in 24 Hours brought together alumni chapters worldwide on a single day.

During the pandemic, Durham University launched the Feisty 50 challenge: a 50-day fitness challenge to kick off the 2021 new year. It became a way for alumni to connect, engage, and work towards wellness.

How community powers events (in-person or virtual) at Crossroads School.

Match these film and television characters to their college or university.

In 2019, University of Georgia, U.S., Archivist Steven Armour launched the Black Alumni Oral History Project, a collection of personal recollections of African-American alumni. UGA desegregated in 1961, and “that milestone event changed our institution and the course of history, but the story stops there if we don’t delve deeper into what students’ experience has been going forward. What happened next?” Armour said.

In late 2020, the University of Newcastle, Australia, launched its inaugural Lost Alumni Campaign, striving to reconnect with former students with whom the university had lost touch. Newcastle reached out to alumni via email, via snail mail, and on social media by decade, capitalizing on each era’s nostalgia. 

To engage Buckeyes of the past and possibly the future, Ohio State University created Brutus’ Summer Reading Challenge, which first launched in the summer of 2020. Alumni registered their children (or grandchildren, nieces, or nephews), after which they received a “passport” with stickers and bookmarks to record their minutes read and earn prizes.

Despite frequenting the University of Florida, U.S., campus since 1994—first as a student, then as an employee—Alisson Clark had never noticed the inscription in the concrete in a well-trodden section of the Gainesville campus. "Cheryl, if love could be like trees, you would be a forest." The inscription was signed only ’77, presumably a reference to the year. Clark decided to try to track down the mysterious suitor's story.