Alumni and Community Engagement
Alumni Engagement
- Improve our understanding of the undergraduate and graduate student experiences of alumni, including those from historically underrepresented and underserved groups, gathering and sharing insights that may help guide future student programming.
- Overseen by: Robert Davis, Vice President, University Advancement
- Item Status: Work in progress.
- Updates: Advancement Staff identified individuals from our alumni community to begin conversations about their experiences related to DEI. These conversations have provided a foundation for the staff to think about new ideas and ways to engage our alumni around DEI. Broader outreach and pilot programing are being planned for 2023-24.
- Gather feedback from alumni regarding how their Scranton education impacted their understanding and engagement with diversity and inclusion issues in their post-graduate lives and professional experiences.
- Overseen by: Robert Davis, Vice President, University Advancement
- Item Status: Year 2
- Updates: Preliminary work has been started on an alumni engagement survey, but the formal survey will be completed in Spring 2024.
- Outreach to alumni from traditionally underrepresented and underserved groups to engage with and mentor current students.
- Overseen by: Robert Davis, Vice President, University Advancement
- Item Status: Year 3
- Updates: Conversations with both Academics and Student are necessary to understand the best way that our alumni can support our students.
- Support growth in affinity and other alumni peer-to-peer engagement opportunities through the creation of alumni societies for historically underrepresented groups.
- Overseen by: Robert Davis, Vice President, University Advancement
- Item Status: Work in progress.
- Updates: Historically, the University’s alumni groups have been based solely on geographic regions. We have added a number of groups based on different experiences and identities of our alumni community. This includes things like Athletics, SJLA, and historically underrepresented groups. As one example, the Rainbow Royals have increased their presence in the alumni community and held a special reception at reunion for members of the group celebrating reunion. The success of Rainbow Royals has prompted opportunities to grow alumni groups for other historically underserved groups this year and in the future.