How to put alumni at the heart of your careers curriculum and make students your new alumni engagement professionals

Brentwood College School, one of Canada’s foremost co-educational boarding high schools, has been focused on building a culture of philanthropy, with some amazing results in just the past two years. How? Through educating their entire community about philanthropy, establishing an alumni-student mentorship program, giving alumni a bigger role in the career education of students, and giving students a bigger role in the engagement of Brentwood’s alumni community.
 

Current students have become a central piece of Brentwood's alumni engagement strategy with incredible results so far. In this webinar, Amy Weinberg, Brentwood's Alumni Relations Manager, will discuss how Brentwood got there, by sharing:

• Why and how you should put alumni at the heart of your career education curriculum
• Strategies for partnering with internal departments in your organisation (particularly your university counselling/career education department)
• How they built a widespread alumni-student mentorship programme in less than a year
• How they utilised technology (Raiser’s Edge & Graduway in particular) to get them there, without hiring extra staff
• How alumni involvement in career education has helped them build a ‘culture of philanthropy’
• Pitfalls and what to avoid

Speaker
Amy Weinberg, Alumni Relations Manager, Brentwood College School
After spending more than five years in the university sector working in admissions, student engagement, program coordination and event planning, Amy accepted the role of Alumni Relations Manager at her alma mater, Brentwood College School – the largest independent boarding high school in Canada and west of the Mississippi. For the past two and a half years, Amy has been expanding and strengthening Brentwood’s alumni programming through a variety of digital and in-person initiatives. She is a firm believer in the benefits of alumni, advancement and career services teams working together within their institutions to yield the best results. With an honours English degree from the University of Victoria (British Columbia), she is also the self-appointed ‘Director of Proofreading’ for Brentwood’s small but mighty advancement office!

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