Good Practices of Alumni Centres

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Good Practices of Alumni Centres

Original language description

The study was undertaken to come up with a document highlighting actual specific best practices with respect to the European University Alumni Centres in order to be more successful in connecting, informing, inspiring and serving alumni, getting them engaged longterm with their Alumni Centre (ACs) and Alma Mater. A group of selected European universities (20), mainly active in the domain of agriculture and life sciences, has been involved in the assessment of the organisation, activities and services rendered by their respective Alumni Centres in order to identify the best Alumni Centres practice recommendations. Consequently, the following steps have been taken: a study was made of the AC Alumni websites and a survey carried out of the AC personnel are their perceived strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats (in a socalled SWOT analysis). Based on the results of this work and the lessons learnt thereby, a set of specific best practices was identified specifying goals and how to realize them, supported by good examples. Most ACs in Europe have recently started gathering data sufficient to allow us rate their success. It is thus possible to identify best practice, based on the personal (qualitative) perceptions of the AC officers and the SIMPLE Project team members, supported by recommendations found in the literature. The ACs engage in generally the same type of activities and services but their approaches differ a lot (in terms of numbers, content, frequency, etc.) depending on the number of officers and volunteers involved, the available budget and logistic facilities, the life span of the Centre, the priorities set and/or cultural aspects. According to our assessment undertaken within European universities, ACs now give special attention to the following operational practices: stability in staff working at the ACs, the involvement of volunteers in academic and networking matters, the management of the alumni database and AC websites, the benchmarking of AC activities, the efficient use of social media for communication, welloutlined and sustainable support to alumni chapters and attracting new students, graduates and young alumni into permanent membership.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

V_souhrn - Summary research report

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40500 - Other agricultural sciences

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Number of pages

46

Place of publication

Prague

Publisher/client name

The European Commission - EACEA

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