Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 24, 2025

Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd (1876 1962) and her co-founder June Buchanan (1887 1988) were the co-founders and worked without pay on both education and fundraising for the college. According to Alice Lloyd College President Jim Stepp, Today, 83% of our alumni live, work, and serve in these mountains and are fulfilling our founders vision.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2024

University endowment experienced a positive turnaround in 2023 , helping institutions fund invaluable initiatives pertinent to their missions. Colleges and universities interested in ramping up their fundraising and donation targets must update their strategies to meet pace with a digitized age, according to a report from Salesforce.

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Campus Groups

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This starts with enrollment through to graduation, and beyond with alumni management. Our suite of solutions serves the entire Higher Ed community, helping students, staff, and alumni: ? Fundraising ? To further facilitate access, in 2023 we will add this feature to mobile wallets. Interventions+ ? Room Reservations ?

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Strengths Strong Alumni Network Wabash boasts a dedicated and active alumni base that provides current students with mentorship, networking opportunities, and career support. The Princeton Review ranks Wabash fourth in the nation for “Best Alumni Network.” This College is relational, not transactional.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The problem It has become increasingly more difficult for institutions of higher education to reach and retain alumni donors. There is a national downward trend in alumni support of their alma maters, and the national discourse surrounding the value vs. cost of higher education makes this a nuanced and substantial problem.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs How the University of the Ozarks engaged local alumni August 9, 2023 Brian Henderson Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Engagement, University of the Ozarks The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

More from UB: Computer science degrees: How demand has both reduced and improved Adam Hasner, Florida Atlantic University Adam Hasner – Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University has finally found its next president in Adam Hasner following a lengthy search that began in January 2023.

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EAB

MAY 15, 2023

Blogs 5 top priorities for advancement leaders in 2023 In April 2023, EAB surveyed chief advancement officers across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom asking them to identify the most pressing issues for their advancement shops. Chief advancement officers are increasingly confronting the reality of this crisis.

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EAB

JULY 27, 2023

Blogs Overcome these two roadblocks to engage young alumni Many of today’s young alumni find themselves burdened with outsized student loan debt and facing tumultuous financial challenges as they embark on entry-level careers. Additionally, this generation of alumni’s time in college was greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

He earned the 2024 Outstanding Educator Award from the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association and the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Applied Health Sciences. He has served at Nichols since 2006, mainly in positions that revolved around fundraising and advancement.

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EAB

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Jenny offers over 20 years of experience in program planning and implementation, with a knack for fostering relationships with alumni, donors, and university teams. Hybrid fundraising, ethical data use, and strong collaboration with alumni networks will also be key in this evolving landscape.

Marketing and Communication Services 59

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EAB

DECEMBER 11, 2023

From wrapping up critical end-of-year fundraising campaigns to processing influxes of year-end donations, advancement staff are working overtime during this final fundraising push. Sidestepping the Advancement Talent Crisis Follow these three strategies to source talent and increase fundraiser ROI. LEARN MORE 5.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Serving a nearly 1,000 student body, her focus as president of SVY will be on fundraising and investment opportunities, Deseret News reports. King’s community must have held Whitaker in high regard, for the Christian university received its largest individual alumni gift and unrestricted financial gift in its 157-year history.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. Before the 1950s, most elite campuses invested their endowments conservatively in bonds and mortgages.

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EAB

JULY 7, 2023

Blogs Alumni giving metrics will no longer be a part of college rankings. This spring, US News and World Report announced they will remove alumni giving metrics from consideration for their 2024 college rankings. But measuring alumni participation rates (APR) has long been a dubious way to demonstrate alumni engagement and support.

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EAB

AUGUST 21, 2023

Quick Facts Missouri State University Springfield, Missouri Large Public University 122,000+ alumni The Challenge The MSU advancement leadership team faced heightened pressures from their board to cut costs within their already lean advancement shop. Founded in 1905, its mission is to educate students to be global citizen scholars.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 6, 2025

For example, from the WSCUC 2023 standards, CFR 3.7 Engaging stakeholdersfaculty, students, alumni, and the communitycan provide valuable perspectives that enhance board decision-making. Not only is this good business practice, all major accreditors have as part of their standards the requirement of evaluating their president.

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EAB

APRIL 11, 2023

Blogs 5 attributes defining Gen Z's relationship with advancement As the class of 2023 prepares to graduate this spring, advancement leaders can no longer ignore the increasing prevalence of Generation Z in their donor and alumni constituencies. Cost consciousness Recent economic pressures have forced Gen Z to adopt a frugal mindset.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Through over 10 years of partnership with EAB, Miami University has tested innovative digital strategies and reinvigorated traditional initiatives, all while avoiding staff turnover and keeping pace in a competitive and changing fundraising environment. Here’s why you should renew your commitment to annual giving anyway.

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The chancellor of Webster University will resign at the end of 2023 after overseeing years of falling enrollment and financial troubles. After taking a sabbatical early next year, she will return to Webster to work in alumni relations and fundraising, according to a press release issued Friday.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To stay on track, institutions should raise 65% of their fundraising revenue before December 31. Meaning year-end campaigns can provide the perfect opportunity to give your fundraising efforts a needed boost or close any revenue gaps. But personalization goes a step further than just understanding the channels for deployment.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Utilizing these traditions in your institution’s annual giving strategy can reignite memories in your alumni and inspire them to give back to their alma mater. The emotional connection your alumni audience already has to your institution is what sets them apart from other donor audiences. LEARN MORE DON’T: Rely solely on traditions.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

Edify serves as a data hub for all of the systems that higher ed already uses, from enrollment and fundraising CRMs to student success platforms. Improve Advancement efforts through more intelligent fundraising As Advancement gets more targeted in its approach to fundraising appeals, it has become more reliant on data.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Additionally, an EAB study found that most universities have incorrect or incomplete emails for over half of their alumni. Another common digital strategy is retargeting (also called remarketing), which involves reaching out to alumni who showed interest in the past but didn’t end up making a gift.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

That’s a sharp increase from the 56% of admissions officers who said the same in Kaplan’s 2023 survey. We advise students and their parents to visit the schools they’re interested in and connect with current students, alumni, and faculty to discuss their experiences. This year, 13% of schools that participate in the U.S.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

Students in this generation are changing the way institutions create and execute engagement strategies­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­—from enrollment to retention to alumni giving—requiring them to be more customized and digitally omnipresent than ever before. Diver deeper into insights we’ve learned from Gen Z.

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EAB

OCTOBER 9, 2023

EAB is also extending its CRM to support alumni engagement and fundraising. These enhancements build on recent product innovations—including expanded student recruitment features and AI technology—that enable advisors to spend less time on routine administrative tasks and more time with students.

IT 52

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You can use a tool like ChatGPT and provide it with your campaign plan (donor segments, fundraising goals, institution information, etc.) Are your gift officers consistently inputting visit notes, likes and dislikes of donors, conversations about campus with prospects, the feelings of alumni and donors about situations on campus?

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Computers and Informational Technology Budget and Finance Management Marketing and Communication Services Alumni 52

EAB

MARCH 24, 2023

Subscribe Get more insights How to stay ready for donors who “aren’t ready yet” February 20, 2023 Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do February 3, 2023 Things have changed—has your Annual Giving strategy?

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In 2016, The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), founded in 1950, conducted a comprehensive survey of 1205 of its alumni. Since the Passport Project aims to support first-year students, they anticipate them to study abroad in the 2023/24 academic year and subsequent years of their undergraduate term.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s not surprising that 72% of college presidents agree or somewhat agree that their institution needs to make fundamental changes in its business models, programming, or other operations ( Inside Higher Ed’s 2023 survey of presidents ). Or that roughly 40% of U.S. Stand alone tuition and fees increases? Trying to increase giving?

Budget and Finance Management 59

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EAB

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EAB is also extending its CRM to support alumni engagement and fundraising. These enhancements build on recent product innovations—including expanded student recruitment features and AI technology—that enable advisors to spend less time on routine administrative tasks and more time with students.

IT 45

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

Students and alumni first started calling for her resignation in 2021 for a variety of reasons, such as declining enrollment, administrative resignations and “abysmal facilities.” Clarence Wyatt announced his plans to retire Monday following the 2023-24 academic year. The final year will be his tenth.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

years in 2023. Additionally, university presidents find themselves compelled to allocate even more of their time to fundraising efforts, a task that was already demanding in its own right. ACE respondents stated the average tenure was 8.5 years in 2006, 6.5 years in 2016, and 5.9 The decline in tenure is a cause for concern.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2023

Amrit discusses the most effective ways in which schools can engage with students and alumni and how to define specific tactics and priorities that will improve enrollment and retention. Most of the time when alumni think back about their college experience, they remember the relationship that they had with a professor or multiple professors.

Marketing and Communication Services 52

Marketing and Communication Services Computers and Informational Technology Higher Education Enrollment Management 52

EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

Blogs 3 Recommendations for Your 2023-24 Annual Giving Strategy Lasting Lessons from the Pandemic for Advancement Teams In May 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the end of the global health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic—leading President Biden to end the U.S.'s s national emergency response.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

More from UB: USC will reinstate alumni status to 1,600+ graduates. Jo Allen, president and alumna of Meredith College, has announced her plans to retire at the end of the 2023-24 year, ending her 13-year tenure. Why was it ever revoked? Hired Walter “Ted” Carter Jr. Retired Jo Allen – Meredith College (N.C.)

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