Clubs and Socs Alumni

This is a page to help combine a few ideas about keeping Alumni involved in clubs and socs activity.

Brainstorming

Just getting started with this, throw down any ideas you have:

• A "clubs and socs day" for alumni, encouraging them to come back and re-join and talk to DCU societies
• Working with the DCU Alumni Relations officer on projects
• A LinkedIn/OpenBC style website specific to DCU, to categorise alumni & their DCU contacts
• An official list of DCU societies/clubs with active Alumni membership (Redbrick a good example)
• Discounted postgraduate courses / further education for Alumni, to encourage more study at DCU?
• "Alumni talks" series, possible monthly talk from an Alumni on a topic, could be archived
• Alumni have a lot of experience, useful for training etc.

Good Idea

Why is some sort of alumni involvement in a club or society a *good idea*?

• Alumni are coming back to DCU to help out with Clubs & Socs independently, and for free
• It's a good way for alumni to keep in touch with eachother, DCU doesn't really facilitate that
• Alumni have a lot of experience & advice to give, could really enhance growth of club/soc
• An Alumni group could leverage useful extras from the Alumni office, in addition to "giving back" in itself

Bad Idea

Why is some sort of alumni involvement in a club or society a *bad idea*?

• Most of the power needs to be with the ordinary members, it'd be bad if the oldies were throwing their weight around years after they've left
• Who's going to pay for all this lark? Current DCU students?
• Won't DCU just try to use this to fleece people for donations?