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Overview:
Alumni engagement and support is crucial to an institution's health. Although many colleges and universities are using new tactics to better engage their alumni, engaging alumni with students remains the number one way to connect alumni with their alma mater. Alumni career mentoring programs are a great way to not only engage your alumni but provide a model of your most engaged alumni to your students. However, developing alumni mentoring programs is challenging. It requires maintaining a balance of interested alumni and students and facilitating the mentoring relationships.
The Building an Alumni Mentoring Program on-demand webcast shows both alumni relations and career services professionals how to build and maintain a successful alumni mentoring program and assess its success based on goals for both alumni and students.
Target Audience:
Alumni relations and career services professionals will learn how to develop an alumni mentoring program to better engage alumni and prepare students for careers in various fields.
Program Agenda:
| ON-DEMAND Presentation |
| Live Session Took Place On Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
- Overview of alumni mentoring
- Objectives for alumni engagement
- Objectives for student career development
- Basic structure for a successful program
- Partnerships
- The role of alumni relations
- The role of career services
- Other key stakeholders
- Recruiting alumni mentors
- Building interest
- Setting expectations
- Developing a diverse alumni mentor pool
- Sparking and keeping student interest
- Identifying need and defining value
- Setting expectations
- Resources
- Measuring success
- What to assess
- How to measure
- Ongoing management
- Maintaining student and alumni pipelines
- Tweaking your program to improve
- What to do and not do when starting an alumni mentoring program
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Instructor:
Vicki P. Klopsch, Associate Director, Alumni Sharing Knowledge, DePaul University
Vicki's development background offers a unique perspective on the impact of volunteerism on an organization's stakeholders. She currently manages over 900 alumni volunteers in career mentoring nationally and has partnered with select universities across the country in developing mentor services. Topics for local workshops and speaking engagements include effective networking, long distance volunteer management, transition from college to work, and requesting recommendations. She recently co-presented "Beyond the Classroom – Making an Impact with Career Mentors" at the 2008 National Society of Experiential Education Conference in Orlando and was the featured speaker for the 2004 DePaul University Student Appreciate Reception. She hosted the 2008 Peer Connections Conference for the Alumni Career Services Network and served on the 2008 conference planning committee.
Ordering Information:
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