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? 

The president of Augsburg University speaks about his institution’s long-running commitment to inclusion and equity, how the past year has brought more urgency, and the crucial role of advancement.

In too many organizations, advancement is lagging on diversity, equity, and inclusion when it should be leading—and leading proactively. To build inclusive cultures and achieve real success in DEI objectives, advancement teams have to move from awareness to assessment to understanding. It's action with accountability. In this book excerpt, Angelique Grant and Ronald J. Schiller share key steps for leaders to do that.

This month marks an important moment in our CASE history. We have fully transitioned into a reimagined organization with one legal board. We've moved away from a complex governance structure involving 11 different legal boards, active across time zones, countries, oceans, and hemispheres. The model now has volunteers at its heart, with a structure that is maximising the immense value that each and every one of them provides.

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.

There are three principles about the urgency of support for education described in The Advancement of Understanding and Support of Higher Education, a report written in 1958 about a convening of 80 advancement leaders and college and university presidents that are still relevant today. 

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.