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Alumni Engagement for Student Recruitment, Experience & Employability

Alumni Engagement for Student Recruitment, Experience & Employability. Richard Screaton (Senior Alumni Officer) Emma Packham (Faculty Alumni Officer, Humanities and EPS). Today’s session. Overview of the Division Humanities alumni demographics Role of the Faculty Alumni Officers

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Alumni Engagement for Student Recruitment, Experience & Employability

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  1. Alumni Engagement for Student Recruitment, Experience & Employability Richard Screaton (Senior Alumni Officer) Emma Packham (Faculty Alumni Officer, Humanities and EPS)

  2. Today’s session • Overview of the Division • Humanities alumni demographics • Role of the Faculty Alumni Officers • Alumni motivations and volunteering

  3. Division of Development and Alumni Relations • Alumni Relations • Donor Programmes • Operations

  4. Our alumni • Recruitment and reputation • Donations • Student experience and employability

  5. Alumni events • Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture – 1,400 guests (capacity) • ‘Manchester Insight’ lectures • Social/networking events in the UK and overseas

  6. Alumni communications • ‘Your Manchester’ (250,000 alumni) • ‘Your Manchester Impact’ • ‘Your Manchester Online’ • E-newsletters • President's Questionnaire (35,000 responses)

  7. Humanities alumni by country

  8. Humanities alumni by region

  9. Alumni industry destination data

  10. Recorded Humanities alumni by age

  11. Faculty team role • Harness alumni enthusiasm toward faculty, school and DDAR2020 objectives • Communication between alumni community and faculties • Building on reunions, networking events with a ‘call to action’ • Information sharing to build accurate, up to date database

  12. Context - The 2020 Agenda Becoming one of the world’s great universities: • Student experience • currently 79% satisfaction in NSS • aim: top 10% in UK • Employability • currently in top 25% • aim: top 10% for employability • Recruitment • student quality and increase PhD students by 30% (1,000) • Social responsibility

  13. Why they support us • To see their University prosper • Wanting to ‘give something back’ • Support students in the current climate • Support the University’s strategic development • Ongoing intellectual engagement

  14. Potential alumni programmesfor schools Recruitment • Open days and inductions • Career profiles • ‘Manchester Made Me’ interviews Experience • Guest lectures • Mentoring (UG, PhD, alumni) • Industrial feedback on student projects Employability • Internships and placements • Careers/networking sessions School development • External advisory board members • Industry network groups/partners

  15. Humanities projects • SED – speed networking events • AHC – alumni involvement at open days • Law – work placements and Legal Advice Centre • MEC – enterprise units for EngD • MBS – guest speaker for MSc • Education – destination data

  16. How DDAR can help school activity • Suggest ideas, share best practice • Project planning tools for alumni activity • Support alumni communications (content and mailing) • Alumni events (advise and invite mailings) • Data gathering (surveys, career profiles) • Information on alumni (destination data and distinguished individuals)

  17. Summary • School contacts • Demographics of Humanities alumni promise engagement • Alumni want to help

  18. Alumni EngagementQuestions Richard Screaton (Senior Alumni Officer) Emma Packham (Faculty Alumni Officer, Humanities and EPS)

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