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ARA Strategic Plan
Creating Community
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Facilitate
a continued relationship with Rice by designing
programs that provide alumni with unique opportunities
to socialize and network with fellow alumni, students
and campus leaders. |
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Identify and
provide university volunteer opportunities for alumni. |
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Volunteer Stewardship |
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A. Evolve
into a primary steward of alumni relationships with
the university, recognizing alumni time contributions
to the Rice community. |
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1. Expand
and further outline volunteer opportunities
for alumni beginning with their student years
and continuing throughout their lifetime.
2. Develop a process for identifying volunteers
for ARA-affiliated committees, boards, and
programs.
3. Identify, develop, and steward alumni leaders
from underrepresented communities.
4. Incubate support for meaningful university-alumni
volunteer ventures and programs.
5. Track and measure campus-wide alumni volunteer
efforts.
6. Recognize substantial alumni volunteer
efforts, including those conducted through
RAVA and Public Affairs. |
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| II.
Regional Programming |
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A. Continue
to enhance regional groups to expand the Rice community
beyond the hedges. |
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1. Continue
to develop a comprehensive programming structure
that provides targeted programming and
communication that facilitates relationships
with and fulfills needs of regional alumni
groups, focusing on those communities that
have the best opportunity for success? primarily
those with alumni populations of 300 or more.
2. Develop a regional programming structure
that is flexible enough to accommodate the
unique interests and culture of specific regionally-based
groups.
3. Develop a sub-board category/structure
for those regional groups identified as successful
in such a
structure. Begin with a small, targeted group
of? test? communities.
4. Create an area committee/task force on
the board with a well-defined purpose.
5. Develop a programming structure that provides
support for alumni groups smaller than 300
alumni and can be facilitated primarily by
volunteers with minimal office support.
6. Explore and identify new technology that
will allow the ARA and alumni staff to expand
regional programming opportunities for alumni.
7. Identify new alumni leadership in targeted
communities while stewarding relationships
with existing volunteers.
8. Document the history of alumni activity
in targeted cities.
9. Identify targeted cities that the university
considers highest priority for activities
such as student recruitment.
10. Improve communication and relationships
between regional ARA clubs and undergraduate
admissions. |
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| III.
Special Interest Groups |
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A. Provide
a welcoming and meaningful environment for diverse
alumni constituencies in all programs. |
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B. Provide
programming for diverse and targeted alumni constituencies. |
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1. Facilitate
relationships with and meet the needs of young
alumni and graduate degree-only alumni groups
through a comprehensive structure that provides
targeted programming and communication.
2. Enhance the structure that provides targeted
programming and communication for alumni groups
based on ethnicity and/or culture and for
other underrepresented groups that have not
been traditionally or otherwise engaged.
3. Enhance the structure that provides targeted
programming and communication for academic
and
professional alumni groups.
4. Utilize new technology, such as website
assistance, to expand communication and programming
opportunities for alumni groups with special
communication needs. |
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Reunions and Homecoming |
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A. Continue
to enhance the annual homecoming experience for
alumni. |
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1. Provide
avenues for targeted alumni to connect with
each other and the university based on graduation
year, college affiliation, special interests,
and/or school affiliation.
2. Expand the number of alumni volunteers
during homecoming and reunions.
3. Track and measure participation levels
at specific homecoming events and develop
a more meaningful way to track participant
satisfaction levels.
4. Determine whether a featured homecoming
speaker and/or an abbreviated Alumni College
would enhance the event experience.
5. Capitalize more on Beer Bike activities
in the spring to engage young alumni, perhaps
making such an
event into a spring homecoming. |
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| V.
Alumni College (See Lifelong
Learning) |
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| VI.
Leadership Conference (See Lifelong
Learning) |
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