The CASE Library maintains this collection of young alumni samples. It includes samples from awards programs, advisory boards and councils, young alumni giving initiatives, and events and alumni programming. Materials from the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards are included as available.

This collection includes CASE Circle of Excellence Award winning programs in the alumni relations programs categories. Examples of international alumni handbooks and guides; forms; constitutions and bylaws; data protection agreements; activity, event and program forms and invitations; maps and more are also included.

This collection includes examples of succession planning guides, toolkits and other materials to help plan and prepare for employee transitions.

The CASE Library maintains this online collection of graduate school alumni relations samples for all CASE members.

Major gift officers in university advancement voluntarily leave their positions for similar roles at other institutions at an alarmingly high rate—once every 18 months, on average. But workplace compassion can help retain fundraisers, according to research. Here’s how advancement leaders can create positive change to increase team members’ satisfaction and retain talented gift officers. 

Spurred by the pandemic, millions of people have quit or changed jobs in 2020 and 2021. How has the “Great Resignation” impacted higher education? It’s led many advancement professionals to consider work-life balance, workplace flexibility, pay, and stability. Now, institutions are realizing the pre-pandemic status quo needs a serious overhaul if they are going to stem the tide of people leaving the sector.

Disability inclusion at work is about more than hiring people with disabilities. An inclusive workplace offers employees with disabilities an equal opportunity to succeed, to learn, to be compensated fairly, and to advance.

Organizations can focus their efforts to equip managers to lead in an inclusive way that drives sustained impact, change, and results in changing times.  

What is race equity as it applies to education institutions? How are advancement teams approaching this work, which experts say involves a wholesale transformation of organizational cultures? How are institutions and individuals moving forward in the name of equity? 

Alma mater means "fostering mother" in Latin. It is often used by alumni as a term of endearment conveying affection or a sense of home for schools they attended. But for far too many alumni of color who matriculated at majority white schools, that sentiment is not so simple.