Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force:
Enhance effective communication and relationships with alumni as mentors and resources for student vocational and career aspiration.
Additional explanation:
Building upon the partnership of the Career Center and the Alumni Office, provide staffing to utilize technology to facilitate effective relationships between alumni and students to increase the number of alumni/student connections by 50 percent. This would involve training alumni and students to maximize a mentor relationship.
This recommendation was placed in the Lifelong Engagement Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language:
Engage alumni in the identification of new student applicants, connect prospective students with an alum, and bolster the number of alumni involved as resources for students’ vocational and career aspirations.
This recommendation was placed is Tier 1 and is being monitored by the Vice President for Institutional Advancement.
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