Taking off

Autor/in	Gorman, Elizabeth
Titel	Taking off
Quelle	In: CURRENTS, 38 (2012) 5, S.24-27 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0748-478X
Schlagwörter	Alumni; Alumni Associations; Foreign Countries; Job Shadowing; Strategic Planning; Colleges; Higher Education; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Absolventenbetreuung; Ausland; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Kanada
Abstract	With roots going back to 1986, the Student Team on Alumni Relations or STAR was one of the first student-alumni groups in Canada and routinely attracted capable and enthusiastic volunteers. It offered to appreciative, albeit small, student audiences a suite of popular programs, including job shadowing and goodie boxes parents could send to their student on or off campus. STAR ambassadors were regulars at alumni events, where they exchanged stories of beloved professors and university traditions with alumni. And yet something important was missing from STAR. Exactly what came to light after a strategic planning exercise between the Queen's University and its alumni association. The group identified engaging the next generation of alumni as an underdeveloped element of Queen's alumni engagement framework. From this imperative for change came a transition to a student-led organization whose new name, the Queen's Student Alumni Association, signaled the strengthened link with the Queen's University Alumni Association. Together, these organizations redoubled their efforts to build awareness that today's students are tomorrow's alumni. In this article, the author discusses how Queen's University revamped its student alumni association. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Council for Advancement and Support of Education. 1307 New York Avenue NW Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 202-328-2273; e-mail: memberservicecenter@case.org; Web site: http://www.case.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10