Applying alumni research to decision making

Moden, Gary O.; Williford, A. Michael

doi:10.1002/ir.37019886008

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“…Since the mid-1980s, researchers at Ohio University have used an alumni survey as one part of an ongoing program of institutional evaluation and improvement (Moden and Williford, 1988;Williford and Moden, 1989). The Ohio University survey asked alumni to respond to questions about employment status, job satisfaction, the relevance of college experiences to employment, and satisfaction with college.…”

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The relationship between alumni satisfaction and work experiences

Pike

1994

Res High Educ

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Although alumni surveys frequently include questions about work experiences, little information is available about the relationship between work experiences and alumni satisfaction with college. The results of the present research indicate that work experiences are significantly related to alumni ratings of their college experiences. Specifically, alumni who are satisfied with their jobs are more likely to report being satisfied with their education experiences. The results of this research also indicate that women are less satisfied with their pay than men. Compared to men, women are neither more dissatisfied with the types of work they are performing nor more likely to be looking for another job. Counter to expectation, dissatisfaction with pay has a more significant effect on ratings of college experiences for women than for men..

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The relationship between alumni satisfaction and work experiences

Pike

1994

Res High Educ

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“…The list below contains a summary of the information that is typically collected by alumni surveys, assembled from the following scholars: Borden (2005), Cabrera et al (2005), Delaney (2004), Moden and Williford (1988), Murray (1994), Pace (1979), Pettit and Litten (1999), Schneider and Niederjohn (1995), Volkwein (1989), Bian (1990, 1999), Volkwein and Parmley (1999), and Weerts and Vidal (2005). Ideally, the alumni researcher begins with entry-level demographic, family, educational, and precollege characteristics, so these do not need to be collected each time alumni are contacted.…”

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Assessing alumni outcomes

Volkwein

2010

New Drctns for Instit Rsrch

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Evaluative statements from alumni have legitimacy with both internal and external stakeholders. Thus, alumni studies can provide valuable evidence of institutional effectiveness and lend themselves to both locally designed and commercial survey instruments for data collection.Assessing Alumni Outcomes J. Fredericks VolkweinColleges and universities customarily survey their graduates in order to collect subsequent education and career information and to cultivate charitable giving and volunteering. As early as the 1930s, leading colleges surveyed alumni to track their professional degree attainment and collect information on workforce issues and employment (Pace, 1979). During the remainder of the twentieth century, the purposes of alumni research multiplied and proliferated across the full range of institution types (Pettit and Litten, 1999).In recent decades, institutions of higher education increasingly view their alumni as valuable sources of both information and financial support. Alumni offer important perspectives for evaluating academic programs and student services and are often used in student recruitment and mentoring. Alumni giving now occupies a prominent position in the modern strategic plan. In the past twenty years, more and more campuses have used alumni surveys to assess the impact of the collegiate experience on student cognitive and noncognitive development (Cabrera, Weerts, and Zulick, 2005). The standards of most regional and specialized accreditors now call for outcomes evidence and using assessment feedback for educational and administrative improvement (Volkwein, 2007). Moreover, colleges and universities are beginning to incorporate feedback from alumni in performance and accountability systems (Borden, 2005;Ewell, 2005). These trends also appear to be developing in some European countries (Weerts and Vidal, 2005).

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“…The information collected by the traditional alumni information collection method is delayed. Therefore, the delayed information cannot satisfy the transformation of the alumni information system from the practical operation to the decision support, which relies on the real-time alumni information to achieve the functions of information forecast, data analysis and decision support [5] . Simplistic function of the alumni management system cannot satisfy the development of school [7] .…”

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The Alumni Information Management Model Based on qInternet +q

Dai¹,

Lan²

2017

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Mechanical Engineering (EMIM 2017)

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Abstract. "Internet+" has been integrated deeply into various industries, which also inspires the innovation of the alumni management work. There are many problems existing in alumni management work, such as the fragmentation of alumni information and time, the delay of information transmission and the simplification of management system function. In view of these deficiencies, this paper analyses and designs an intelligent integrated alumni information management system framework based on the combination of online and offline. This framework includes three modules: "Alumni Social Network", "Intelligent Data Acquisition and Storage" and "Data Mining and Decision-Making Support". The system aims at building social platform to firm alumni network by using intelligent technology to collect and store massive alumni data and datamining technology to improve the decision-making of talent training scheme.

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Applying alumni research to decision making

Abstract: Research on alumni can meet needs in program review, curriculum planning, student assessment, resource allocation, student services, and recruiting.

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The relationship between alumni satisfaction and work experiences

The relationship between alumni satisfaction and work experiences

Assessing alumni outcomes

The Alumni Information Management Model Based on qInternet +q

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