1. Joining Forces Across Campus Colleen Monks Interim Director, Career Advancement Center Jamie Williams Associate Director, Engagement
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2. 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

3. 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?

4. Expanding the Reach of Your Office
Partnerships!

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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)

15. 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?