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.

The Library compiled these resources to help institutions survey their alumni, providing a sense of demographic and programming questions that institutions ask and the ways they organize an alumni survey instrument.

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.

The Library maintains this collection of board materials including bylaws, board roles and responsibilities, committee structures and responsibilities, nomination and orientation material, and assorted other documents. The pages linked below are arranged by document type, then alphabetically by institution.

Sue Cunningham
(2022)

Sue Cunningham brings a global perspective to everything she does, and the benefit of this lens is clear in Global Exchange, in which advancement leaders from around the world address the critical issues facing the sector. With voices from schools, colleges, universities, and foundations, Global Exchange represents a collection of today’s ‘best thinking’ in educational advancement—guided, gathered, and annotated by someone who has led advancement offices on three continents.

Listing of advancement companies, consultants, and software.

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 fall of 2016, the CASE Commission on Alumni Relations created the Alumni Engagement Metrics Task Force to address the need for an industry-wide framework to measure alumni engagement. The result was the Alumni Engagement Metrics survey, CASE’s first truly global survey. Now, with results from three years of AEM, advancement professionals who work in alumni relations are benefiting from measuring their results in four areas: volunteerism, experiential, philanthropic, and communication. The ability to document positive outcomes is already elevating the profession. In this article, we hear from CASE members who participated in AEM and how it is changing their work for the better. 

This collection contains articles, dissertations, theses and case studies related to international alumni relations programs. This online collection can help members understand, engage and manage their international alumni constituencies.