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Alumni Advisory Boards
Going Beyond Begging
David K WatkinsEarth & Atmospheric SciencesSlide2
Alum J. Pierpont Morgan answering the Chair of GeosciencesSlide3
(stolen from internet)Slide4Slide5
New Hubbard Funds
encourage
student careers in
paleontologySlide6
Individual alumni acting in isolation can result in dissipated efforts that can be difficult to manage.
Needs of the Department
1. Scholarships and Fellowships
2. Enhancements to student learning
3. Student research funds
4. Post-docs
5. Professorships and Chairs
6. Capital equipment and renovation
7. Space Slide7
The Alumni Advisory Board is a vital source of knowledge for the faculty and for the students. Slide8
Alumni Boards can be a source of POWERSlide9
Alumni Advisory Boards, if used judiciously and sparingly, can help you get the attention of higher administration and cut through the roadblocks. Slide10
Possible Dean or Dean-like person at the Alumni BanquetSlide11
Composition of the Alumni Advisory Board
Diversity:
- in occupation, representing all of the major sectors of employers.
- in age, including recent grads as well as veteran alumni.
- in education, including B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. grads if you have them.
- in person, as students want to see themselves in the alumni group.
- be sure to include one or more academics.
- you want successful people.
Numbers:
- wide variance amongst institutions, so do what fits your situation.
- assume that some will join the board but may not participate much.
- you want a critical mass so that they can lead the effort.
Executive Secretary (or something)
- a member of the faculty whose serves as liaison with the Board
- needs to be someone who can and will do the work (rewarded).Slide12
Alumni Advisory Board MeetingsSlide13
Professional Development Workshop for
students by Alumni Advisory Board(every other year)
“It was great to learn from someone in the field I want to go into after graduation. I got tons of information that will help me…from a person who has gone through what I will going through soon.”
“I thoroughly enjoyed the time I spent with the students discussing how things are in my industry. I saw the light bulb go on again and again as we talked about preparing for a career in …”Slide14Slide15
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Alumni
Advisory Board
Breakfast – 219 Bessey Hall (7:30-8:30) Morning
Sessions – David K. Watkins presiding
1. Opening remarks and introductions
2. State of the
Department: Personnel, Teaching , Research, Outreach/Recruiting
3. Budget and Foundation
Funds: Student
Research and Travel
Fund; Hydrogeology
Fellowship
4. General Business
Lunch
- 219
Bessey
Hall and vicinity
Afternoon
Session – Daniel
Nietfeld
presiding
5.
UNL Alumni gathering at the AMS
– January 2013, Austin
6.
UNL Alumni gathering at the
AAPG
– May 19-22,
Pittsburgh
7.
Date for Fall 2013 meeting
8.
By-Laws/governance
9.
Membership report
10.
Distinguished Alumni nominations
11.
Foundation
business: MET fund; Stout
Lecture Series
12.
New Business –
AAB
Stout Lecture Series – Jason Head on
TitanoboaSlide16Slide17
Annual Alumni Banquet in Elephant HallSlide18
Shmoozing
with alums from the U.S. Weather Service Slide19
Associate Dean under attack from students, faculty, and alumniSlide20
Keep it shortSlide21Slide22
Walker Southwest Field Trip
10-14 day tour of the Colorado Plateau for 1
st
& 2
nd
year undergrads
“get ‘
em
fired up, and then bring ‘
em
by the Ranch for a barbeque”Slide23
Schramm Field Trip to southern England– at
Kimmeridge
Bay,
Dorset Slide24
Cyclostratigraphy
and paleontology in the
Kimmeridge
Clay Slide25
Cyclostratigraphy
exercise in the
Plenus
Marls, Isle of WightSlide26
Prof. Paul
Bown
(UCL) expounds on the
Lulworth
CrumpleSlide27
Summary
Alumni Advisory Boards can unite the disparate desires of alums into a focused force for growth
Once educated and oriented, Alumni Boards can pursue departmental goals in ways that the faculty cannot afford to undertake.The interaction of the alumni and the students is a mutually beneficial relationship that by itself justifies our efforts to organize an Alumni Advisory Board.