Alumni Relations

Alumni Relations

Head of Alumni Relations

-Dianne Pemberton-Pigott

Alumni Relations Assistant

- Barbara Boyle

Our alumni

• All graduates

• All those who have studied here for one year or more

How many alumni?

• Total 59,000

• In contact with 39,000

33,500 UK(6,000 Dundee)

2,000 Europe

3,500 Rest of world

Why keep in touch with them?

• Bring expertise and experience back

• Help us to recruit

• Employ our new graduates

• Provide support

We need them

• Alumni are our best Ambassadors

• We need their recommendations

• Their success is our success

Long-lasting relationships

• Built on TRUST

• Not one-sided

Relationships – built on trust

• Do as we say we will do

• Be timely in our replies

• Protect their personal details

To Build Relationships

• We need to know

– Where they are

– What they do

– What their needs are

Giving something back

• Alumni magazine sent annually

• University news via E-zine

• Include them in what we do

Giving something back

• Offer career help

• Make it easy for them to offer help

• Provide on-line services

• Help with reunions

• Finding lost friends

• Alumni conferences

• Set up alumni groups ( UK and global)

Global Alumni Groups

• Some meet frequently

• Some purely social

• Others - business networking

How you can help us

• Please tell us:– About contacts between dept and alumni

(and their correct contact details)

– Which alumni have visited or lectured?

– Who has given a donation, a student prize or a placement (The University wants to thank them too!)

How we can help you

• Reliable information available to you

• Statistics

• Alumni bring back expertise to enrich the classroom experience

Help for departments

• Alumni help on recruitment trips

• Feedback on courses

• Project funding

• QAA – ask alumni to talk to audit team

Fund-raising

• Why alumni give

– grateful for their education

– want to give something back

– want to feel a part

Fund-raising• Major Gifts

– Some control or own vast wealth

• Legacies

• Annual Fund

1000 alumni giving £10 per month=£10,000 or £120,000 per year + gift aid

1000 alumni giving one–off gifts of £20 = £20,000

Help us provide the best for you

Please

• pass on alumni whereabouts

• tell us if they have helped you or your students

• Request information from us

ChallengesData Protection vs Global Groups

• We can’t give group organisers a list of alumni in their area

• Therefore they cannot help us to build up membership

Dundee-Reunited.comAlumni On-line community

SERVICE HALTED

-A searchable directory

-Email for life

-Over 1000 alumni already signed up

-Social, career, business

-Faculty/Dept access to pools of help

Homecoming 2007 Weekend15 – 17 June

A weekend of fun

• Integral brochure within Dundee-Reunited magazine

• Faculty reps (first meeting 3 Feb)

• Expecting 1000 guests

Alumni Relations