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Your Alumni Magazine Is a Source of Marketing Gold

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Your Alumni Magazine Is a Source of Marketing Gold rzinkan@rhb.com Thu, 02/27/2025 - 03:00 AM Authentic storytelling can be key to successful marketing campaigns in higher education. Byline(s) Caroline Collier

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Students connect peers to alumni, industry resources

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: For students, leveraging their institution’s alumni network can be easier said than done. The team puts on dozens of events and works with hundreds of alumni who conduct interviews and writes a blog to create resources for their classmates. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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HBCU Advancement Teams: Don't Underestimate the Power of the Individual Donor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nevertheless, giving from individuals still far outweighs the other sources and strengthens the case for our institutions to remain laser-focused on individuals who know our case (our alumni and friends); individuals who have always supported our case (legacy donors); and now, individuals who, because of varying societal circumstances (e.g.,

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Concerned alumni groups. There has never been a more important and necessary time for concerned alumni of color of all colleges and universities to provide input and advice to university administrators, whether they appreciate it or not, and to monitor the effectiveness of institutional efforts to enroll and support students of color.

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

NOTABLE ALUMNI of ALBION COLLEGE, Albion, MI Rick Smith, ’68, Former editor-in-chief of Newsweek Stanley Kresge–founder of Kmart Cedric Dempsey–former Executive Director of the NCAA NOTABLE ALUMNI of ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, Meadville, PA Clarence Darrow – noted American lawyer in the Scopes Monkey Trials. Former U.S.

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Detroit Must Be The Place

College for Creative Study

The multidisciplinary creative, who was named CCSs 2024 Distinguished Alumni, co-founded the biannual street mural festival BLKOUT Walls in 2021, to increase representation of Black artists in mural festivals. Smithsonian magazine named it one of the top five best mural festivals in the world in 2018. James , 01 Illustration.

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Video networking at Grinnell enhances student connections

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Connecting students and alumni can be challenging, especially for a school with a widely dispersed population, but Grinnell College is closing the gap between its graduates and current students by hosting short virtual networking events. Requiring alumni to register first also drives students to register, Peltz shares.