I’m happy to share a few updates and statistics regarding our Mendoza alumni engagement efforts for this year.
Facts and Figures
While it is always difficult to track all alumni engagement, I’m confident to report that so far this academic year, we have more than 360 individual instances of alumni connecting directly with students across at least 64 different initiatives. These include club interactions, social and networking events, and career support, just to name a few. My endless thanks to my student, faculty and staff partners who constantly innovate new ways for our alumni to elevate the student journey at Mendoza.
While it is always difficult to track all alumni engagement, I’m confident to report that so far this academic year, we have more than 360 individual instances of alumni connecting directly with students across at least 64 different initiatives. These include club interactions, social and networking events, and career support, just to name a few. My endless thanks to my student, faculty and staff partners who constantly innovate new ways for our alumni to elevate the student journey at Mendoza.
Alumni Book Club
In January, we launched the Mendoza Alumni Book Club to wild success. This initiative includes an online portal where users can discuss the book, receive regular email communication with reminders and new discussion topics, and engage in live author chats. As of this week, we have 768 alumni members, 268 discussion posts and almost 16,000 pageviews. As we begin our second book next month, “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out,” I’m very pleased to invite all Mendoza faculty and staff to join as well. You can sign up to participate at this link. We’ll also be introducing some Notre Dame faculty selections later this year, so keep an eye out for those!
In January, we launched the Mendoza Alumni Book Club to wild success. This initiative includes an online portal where users can discuss the book, receive regular email communication with reminders and new discussion topics, and engage in live author chats. As of this week, we have 768 alumni members, 268 discussion posts and almost 16,000 pageviews. As we begin our second book next month, “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out,” I’m very pleased to invite all Mendoza faculty and staff to join as well. You can sign up to participate at this link. We’ll also be introducing some Notre Dame faculty selections later this year, so keep an eye out for those!
Commencement 2020
The Class of 2020 will finally get an opportunity to celebrate its graduation this coming Memorial Day weekend. The Registrar has assigned each college a time to host their own adjacent celebration to the University commencement on May 29 (Sunday) in the Notre Dame Stadium. Mendoza will be hosting our celebration brunch for all business alumni — undergraduate and graduate — at 10 a.m. on May 28 (Saturday).
The Class of 2020 will finally get an opportunity to celebrate its graduation this coming Memorial Day weekend. The Registrar has assigned each college a time to host their own adjacent celebration to the University commencement on May 29 (Sunday) in the Notre Dame Stadium. Mendoza will be hosting our celebration brunch for all business alumni — undergraduate and graduate — at 10 a.m. on May 28 (Saturday).
We have about 200 alumni who have RSVP’d so far, and University Enterprises and Events will determine a venue after they see our headcount as of April 1. We will also need the usual slate of Faculty Marshals for the Sunday Commencement exercises in Notre Dame Stadium; please let me know if you are interested in serving. To complement the May events, we also look forward to providing a Mendoza Class of 2020 reunion event on the weekend of the Notre Dame versus California football game on September 17.
Yours in Notre Dame,
Ryan
Ryan Retartha
Director of Mendoza Alumni Relations
Director of Mendoza Alumni Relations