Goal 3: Objective 3.4

• Capitalize on acceptance of virtual events during pandemics to continue post-pandemic and continue to explore the integration of new platforms, such as Remo, to enhance and strengthen the overall virtual experience for participants.
• Extend access to other College programming (e.g., Dean’s Lecture Series) to alumni, friends and parents.

HHD Alumni Relations

Virtual alumni events incorporated into regular alumni event calendar; access to college programming routinely extended to alumni.

Fall 2021 – Fall 2022 then ongoing

• Develop a three-part virtual alumni-institute series focusing on one specific theme within the college (nominal charge for this type of programming) 
• Partner with other colleges, campuses, or alumni chapters to broaden the reach of alumni-focused programming.

HHD Alumni Relations and HHD Communications

Institute offered; partnerships cultivated.

Fall 2021 – ongoing (planning); first alumni-institute by end of  AY2023

• Identify someone in each academic unit (liaison network) to assist with Alumni in the Classroom and other alumni visitation initiatives.
• Develop processes/mechanisms for sharing information about alumni with ongoing interest in student engagement between Alumni Relations and academic units.
• Develop other resources that support broader alumni engagement with students across our academic units
• Develop a processes/mechanisms for tracking. activities that feature alumni in student engagement at the college level.

HHD Alumni Relations Team; Undergraduate Education Mentoring Group; academic unit designated mentoring liaison

Liaisons identified, processes/mechanisms developed.

Fall 2021 (liaisons) Fall 2022 (processes/mechanisms)

• Hold a meeting each semester for Affiliate Program Group (APG) faculty liaisons and academic unit heads
• Help better align APG goals with academic unit priorities (e.g., securing internship sites, mentors, being responsive to Dept. priorities) through the development of an annual APG engagement plan that includes goals related to these special populations.

HHD Alumni Relations; APG faculty liaisons; Academic Unit Heads.

Meetings with APG faculty liaisons/dept. heads held; APG engagement plans developed.

Fall 2022 and ongoing

• Engage graduate student community (through Graduate Student Council and Academic Program student groups) and college post-doc community (through direct outreach) in a process to determine best structure for peer-support network
• Create and resource graduate/postdoc cross-program peer-support-network(s) for HHD graduate students and postdocs from diverse backgrounds to meet, create community, support scholarship and advance professionalism.
• Develop strategy to collect feedback from participants annually.

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education and Diversity and Inclusion Office

A standing program is established for HHD graduate students and postdocs, to begin in Fall 2022.

Fall 2022 - ongoing