AlmaShines

Alumni database health measures how reachable an institution’s alumni records actually are right now, not how many alumni exist on paper. Most institutions assume their database is fine because the total alumni count keeps growing. In practice, that number hides a much smaller, s...

An alumni relations audit is a structured review of how well an institution actually communicates with, tracks, and mobilises its alumni, rather than a report of how much activity took place. In fact, most institutions run alumni programmes for years without ever formally auditin...

Several alumni associations have introduced alumni protection programs. These are most commonly structured as group health insurance and designed to extend meaningful support to members. Here is what that actually involves, and what institutions need to know before they build on...

Most institutions are confident about their alumni support. But only a few can say what happens to that support once the early years are behind their alumni.

Ask most alumni r...