Shared Interest Group Organization Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Barb Larson Taylor

Recommendation from the Stewardship Task Force:

Create an application, approval process, and organizational template for alumni-driven shared interest groups; define group roles, purpose, and expectations; provide access to funding, programmatic ideas, and marketing support.

Additional explanation:

Use these alumni-driven and primarily alumni-managed shared interest groups as a way to increase communication and activity by engaging alumni in the leadership and management of the group. Alumni could choose to form a group around geographic location (currently called chapters), career/professional interest, life-stage, college involvement, or other special interest.

This recommendation was placed in the Lifelong Engagement Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language:

Substantially increase alumni engagement by reinventing the alumni class leadership structure, creating volunteer management of social networking sites, and establishing formal programs connecting alumni with academic departments and alumni-driven shared interest groups.

This recommendation was placed is Tier 1 and is being monitored by the Vice President for Institutional Advancement.