1. Recruit to Alumni:
Breaking Down University Silos

2. Recruit to Alumni: Breaking Down
University Silos
Sylvia DeVault and Liz Riffert

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The Silo Mentality reduces efficiency and morale, causes
frustration and wastes resources.

4. Eliminating the Silo Mentality
• Communicate – common rallying cry
• Align – learn how you can support each other
• Reward Collaboration – build into goals/evaluations
• Focus on Customer – share student/alumni feedback
• Use Cross-functional Teams to Brainstorm Together – see the bigger picture
• Get Personal – collaboration needs trust
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5. Who better to do this than alumni
professionals?
• Treat co-workers across campus as you do
your alumni.
• Suck it up and reach out to them. Repeatedly.
• Determine key relationships and build them.
• Start in your own house – work closely with
your fund raising colleagues.
• NEVER WORK ALONE!

6. Recruit to Alumni Partnerships
• Enrollment Services – LEAGUE
• Student Engagement – SOAR, Homecoming
• Athletics – Reunions, Special Events
• Academic Affairs – Senior Seminar visits
• Ceremonies Committee – Convocation,
Commencement, Senior Keynote
• Don’t forget Development

7. UE Connect
Purpose
Designed to assist students with career-related needs
and to connect them with engaged alumni and
community professionals who will support and
champion their professional goals.
• Provides structured professional development
network
• Increases alumni involvement and fosters positive
relationships
• Encourages stronger connections and affinity across
the UE alumni network

8. UE Connect
Programming
• Student Mentoring Program
• Alumni Resource
• UE Connect Alumni Profiles – website
• Alumni involvement with Career Development
and Academic program events
• UE JobLink and Professional Network
• LinkedIn Communities

9. Work in Progress: Future Emphasis
• Student Accounts
• Social Media
• There’s always more…

10. Sylvia DeVault Liz Riffert
Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Assistant Director of Alumni &
1800 Lincoln Avenue Parent Relations for Career Development
Evansville, Indiana 47722 el37@evansville.edu
Telephone: 812-488-2586
sy5@evansville.edu

12. Recruit to Alumni: Breaking Down University Silos