College Alumni Relations Benchmarks
College Alumni Relations Benchmarks

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Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1574400886

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This report gives critical data about the alumni relations efforts of North American colleges. In more than 115 pages and 400 tables present hard data on alumni affairs office budgets, marketing expenditures, use of print publications and the internet, directory building and fundraising activities, among other topics. The report, based on data from 60 colleges, gives the end user highly specific benchmarking data such as the percentage of alumni that participate in reunions, earning from insurance plans and credit cards offered to alumni, spending on promotional materials for alumni clubs, percentage of alumni for whom the college maintains a working email address, and hundreds of other useful benchmarks and datapoints. Useful benchmarks include alumin office staff size, staff time spent on specific tasks, impact of the internet on alumni communications, relations with the Office of Institutional Advancement, plans for the print directory and much much more. Data is broken out for public and private colleges and by size and type of college and by size of the overall alumni population.

Alumni Relations Benchmarks, 2014-15 Edition
Alumni Relations Benchmarks, 2014-15 Edition

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2014-07-07

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1574402943

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The study presents detailed benchmarking data on alumni relations from 55 North American colleges. The 200+ page study covers fundraising and outreach strategies, alumni office staffing and budget trends, analysis of alumni affairs staff time use, use of social media and other marketing and outreach vehicles, relations with alumni clubs, spending on consulting, travel, telephone solicitation, and direct mail, and much much more. The report also gives highly specific data on participation rates in various kinds of alumni reunions and overall participation in the alumni association, among other data points. Data is broken out for public and private colleges, and by enrollment level, general Carnegie Class and annual tuition charged, to enable more precise benchmarking.

Alumni Relations Benchmarks, 2013 Edition
Alumni Relations Benchmarks, 2013 Edition

Author: Primary Research Group

Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1574402226

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This 160-page report is based on a survey of 89 American colleges and universities and covers a broad range of issues of interest to alumni and advancement professionals including but not limited to: trends in staffing the alumni office, use of the alumni office's work time, alumni office budgets and priorities, governance of the alumni relations effort and level of cooperation among various administrative units and alumni organizations. The study provides highly detailed data on alumni participation rates in various kinds of alumni activities, including reunions, and a close look at alumni department budgets including salaries, travel, promotion, costs of alumni clubs and events. In addition, the report presents detailed data on alumni department revenues from credit card, insurance and other services for alumni, as well as alumni office spending on consulting and information services. Other areas covered include: means of fundraising from alumni, use of alumni surveys, percentage of alumni who attend various kinds of events and the percentage who give to the college, nature of links to alumni clubs, athletic booster clubs and other alumni-related organizations, use of direct mail, telephone solicitation, social media and email to connect with alumni, and the relative success of each method, the future of alumni publications and directories and many other issues of interest to college alumni and advancement staff of private alumni organizations and college departments that often deal with alumni such as advancement, marketing and athletics.

University Fundraising in Britain
University Fundraising in Britain

Author: William Squire

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1784620092

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University Fundraising in Britain is an account of the culture change in British universities as people from all walks of life rallied to the cause of maintaining the quality of teaching and research through fundraising, in the face of the unprecedented expansion of student numbers. It recounts how a few individuals began to adapt professional fundraising to an academic environment, describes the impact of transatlantic ideas of ‘best practice’ and their adaptation to local circumstances through the work of a few individuals from the UK and North America, and how the academic leadership, government policy and influential volunteers came together to expand philanthropy as an important source of revenue in colleges and universities throughout the UK. It documents the expansion of student numbers in the USA and UK and the differing financial models supporting the higher education sector. When New Labour found the existing funding model of higher education to be unsustainable, one response was to seek new ways to kick-start university fundraising, and to encourage philanthropy. University leaders were quick to respond and to follow the early pioneers such as the universities of Edinburgh and later Oxford and Cambridge. The result was a significant increase in non-governmental sources of income and a new profession of university fundraisers. William Squire was the first development director at the University of Cambridge and the book incorporates many of his personal experiences in the changing world of university fundraising. Whilst University Fundraising in Britain is a work of social history that primarily focuses on university fundraising, many parts of the book apply wherever there is a need to attract funds for all kinds of charitable and cultural activities. The book has a foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury, former Chancellor of Aston University and a well-known industrialist and philanthropist.

National Profile of Community Colleges
National Profile of Community Colleges

Author: Kent A. Phillippe

Publisher: Amer. Assn. of Community Col

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0871173654

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This book offers a national view of trends and statistics related to today's community colleges. The new edition includes completely revised text as well as updates to charts and tables on topics such as enrollment, student outcomes, population, curriculum, faculty, workforce, and financial aid. Informative narrative introduces and provides context for the data. An excellent resource for presentations, public information, media relations, and long-range planning. Chapter 1, Community Colleges Past and Present, recounts the history of community colleges and summarizes some of the more pressing issues facing them today. Chapter 2, Community College Enrollment, provides detailed information and demographics concerning enrollment at community colleges and puts it in perspective with the rest of higher education. Chapter 3, The Social and Economic Impact of Community Colleges, describes the impact of community colleges on students and their communities through measures such as degree and certificate completion, employment data, and educational attainment within the general population. Chapter 4, Community College Staff and Services, offers a view of staffing at community colleges, from the presidency and senior administration to faculty and support staff. Chapter 5, College Education Costs and Financing, focuses on the financial aspects of community colleges, as they affect the institution and its students. Chapter 6, A Look at the Future, presages trends and issues that will define the community college of the future. The book also contains a Preface, Glossary, References, Index, and About the Authors. (Contains 39 figures and 77 tables.).

How College Works
How College Works

Author: Daniel F. Chambliss

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-02-17

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0674727037

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A Chronicle of Higher Education “Top 10 Books on Teaching” Selection Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that the limited resources of colleges and students need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the surprisingly decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's collegiate success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes. “The book shares the narrative of the student experience, what happens to students as they move through their educations, all the way from arrival to graduation. This is an important distinction. [Chambliss and Takacs] do not try to measure what students have learned, but what it is like to live through college, and what those experiences mean both during the time at school, as well as going forward.” —John Warner, Inside Higher Ed

Institutional Advancement
Institutional Advancement

Author: E. Proper

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-04

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1137374284

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Institutional Advancement comprehensively reviews and evaluates the published empirical research on advancement in higher education of the last 23 years, covering fundraising, alumni relations, public relations, marketing, and the role of institutional leadership in all of these.

New Strategies for Educational Fund Raising
New Strategies for Educational Fund Raising

Author: Michael J. Worth

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1573565180

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In this sequel to the highly respected and practical 1993 book on fund raising, Worth and his group of authoritative contributors cover areas that did not even exist in this field in 1993, including the concepts of "principal gifts" and "benchmarking." They adapt strategies from Worth's earlier book and introduce many new ones to meet current challenges and take advantage of new opportunities. Comprising 31 chapters divided into ten logical parts, the authors provide a complete picture of this field, which is so important to leaders in higher education. Beginning with a strong base of knowledge, the authors then discuss topics ranging from raising funds from individuals; creating the campaign (accounting, long-range planning, leadership, the mission, kickoff); corporate and foundation support; traditions of giving; managing and supporting development programs; ethical concerns; and trends for the future. Michael Worth gives a great deal of attention to the environment in which those responsible for advancement in higher education have to work today. The book addresses new areas in the field that didn't exist when Worth wrote his first edition of this book in 1993. For example, the use of financial instruments in the planning of gift giving are more sophisticated, and business techniques have been tapped to improve management of programs and measurement of success. Part II of the book describes the underlying foundations of educational fund raising in three chapters, each written by an expert contributor. This section of the book describes the base of knowledge in the field (theory and research) and discusses the institutional plan and its relationship to the goals and objectives of the institution. Part V, covers corporate and foundation support, which is based on reasoned strategies and business plans and goals rather than on altruism and emotion, which can often be the foundation for individual giving. The book also includes a glossary and a selective bibliography.

Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education
Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education

Author: Charles Secolsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 1317485548

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In this valuable resource, well-known scholars present a detailed understanding of contemporary theories and practices in the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation, with guidance on how to apply these ideas for the benefit of students and institutions. Bringing together terminology, analytical perspectives, and methodological advances, this second edition facilitates informed decision-making while connecting the latest thinking in these methodological areas with actual practice in higher education. This research handbook provides higher education administrators, student affairs personnel, institutional researchers, and faculty with an integrated volume of theory, method, and application.