Joining Forces Across Campus Colleen Monks Interim Director, Career Advancement Center Jamie Williams Associate Director, Engagement LFC PPT?

Agenda The Structure of Our Offices Why You Sometimes Don’t Partner, But Reasons Should How to Get Started and Where to Partner Examples of Success Future Opportunities for Partnership

Imagine the Possibilities… Think about one of the biggest challenges that you are facing in your office right now. Imagine your supervisor presents you with some very exciting news Monday morning… Your office will magically double in size before this next academic year! Given your new, larger staff size, how could you solve that big challenge?

Expanding the Reach of Your Office Partnerships!

Structure Impacts Partnership Alumni and Annual Giving: one-stop-shop 15 team members, including data team Report to VP of Development and External Relations (includes Office of Communications and Marketing) Career Advancement Center 11 team members, including academic internship program (campus and In the Loop), combined advising/employer relations Report to VP of Career Services and Athletics How is your college structured? Who do you report to? The structure of the college has an important impact on partnership

If It’s So Helpful, Why Don’t We Do It? Tradition of operating separately/in individual silos Different offices and objectives Career Center Alumni Engagement Development/Annual Giving Intensity of academic year and lack of lead time Photo of map of campus office

Why We’re Better Together Our work positively impacts one another to keep the cycle moving—stronger as a unified force Left and right hand on same page: communication/ outreach More up-to-date alumni records/tracking of engagement Ability to capitalize on alumni willing to engage Alumni Relations Development/ Annual Giving Career

Getting Started Where are we duplicating efforts? What are our common goals? What initiatives could be more effective together? How do we define who does what? Divide and conquer It takes time

Areas for Partnership Technology: (Slate) Alumni Engagement: Communication efforts Collecting data/tracking Alumni Engagement: Events: networking/mentorship events with alumni Recruiting: opening doors to employers with alumni Mutually beneficial relationships (students to alumni/giving) CMS Post-Graduate Outcomes Improves the quality

Examples of Successful Partnership Our alumni help make a name for us and open doors

Examples of Successful Partnership   An evolution-on-going format-All-Access Mixers For us-why this was different: having a strategy for invitations and monitoring-the theme, Pathway Leaders were doing personal outreach, we invited Internship Site supervisors and we encouraged student networking –gave specific names by Pathway, the name itself and pomp and circumstance around it—organization/strategy Commitment career on campus and beyond and strengthening that in the city All stakeholders present-current loop and future loop—connecting and opening doors Grand celebration—thanking and celebrating those partnerships! On campus and beyone-coach, trustee, faculty member, students alumni!! For you-why it was different? Not a fundraising, but great connection with these excited and engaged alumni, and many new alumni/employers because of CAC outreach, more variety of events (47% of registrants for all events were new contacts) What made this year more successful? Screenshot for registration CAREERS ACROSS THE PATHWAYS Career Pathways Launch in Chicago

Examples of Successful Partnership   An evolution-on-going format For us-why this was different: having a strategy for invitations and monitoring-the theme, Pathway Leaders were doing personal outreach, we invited Internship Site supervisors and we encouraged student networking –gave specific names by Pathway, the name itself and pomp and circumstance around it For you-why it was different? Not a fundraising, but great connection with these excited and engaged alumni, and many new alumni/employers because of CAC outreach, more variety of events (47% of registrants for all events were new contacts) What made this year more successful? Screenshot for registration CAREERS ACROSS THE PATHWAYS Career Pathways Launch in Chicago

It’s a Community Effort! Other Partnerships on Campus: Center for Chicago Programs Athletics Admissions Student Life Trustees Faculty And More!! Expanded Ecosystem: LFC Photo

Future Opportunities Continuing to define roles and responsibilities, based on our own expertise Refining alumni referral process Enhancing post-graduate outcomes data collection efforts Connecting our technology systems to communicate more directly with one another (Handshake and Slate)

Future Opportunities for You How are you already partnering? What opportunities exist to continue to strengthen or to create new partnerships? Are there ways these partnerships could help solve one of those big challenges for your office?