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.

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. 

Member Profile: Prakriti Roy and Saskia Janicki

Saskia Janicki, Alumni Stewardship Officer and Prakriti Roy Alumni Engagement Officer, are both recent additions to the Alumni Engagement team at Leeds Beckett University.

In this profile, they discuss their career experiences to date and what it’s been like as newcomers entering the world of alumni engagement. 

Institutions’ Circle of Excellence Award-winning projects used nostalgia to engage alumni in fun, new ways. Explore how advancement teams broadly balance looking back and looking forward, why nostalgia works well to engage alumni, and what takeaways advancement teams can apply to their own work.