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This paper presents research from a small-scale study analysing how graduates and alumni feature in the strategic plans of all Irish universities (n?=?7). The data suggest that the word ‘graduate’ is used to describe the work of the university as an enabler for the graduate, to prepare for the employment to acquire key skills, towards a foundation of ‘graduateness’ such as reflective thinking, moral reasoning and lifelong learning aligning with the institution’s key performance indicators. In contrast, ‘alumni’ are featured related to alumnus/alumna success. Irish Higher Education Institutions view alumni as a key enabler to contribute to the university’s mission and vision: through giving, both of their time and philanthropic donations. Based on the strategic plan discourse, the role of alumni in Irish universities suggests a similar trend, relying on alumni as an internal stakeholder with an external ability to offer value to the institution. 相似文献
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David Silva Kathleen L. McFadden 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2005,3(2):307-321
The purpose of this study is to explore how well a curriculum that combines operations management and information systems uniquely prepares students for the workforce. To address our research questions, a Web‐based survey was developed. We sent our survey to 203 alumni that graduated from the Department of Operations Management and Information Systems at Northern Illinois University. We assess alumni perceptions of how well our department prepared them in general and technical skills as well as how important these skills were in their current position. We investigate factors useful in predicting preparedness for both general business and technical skills. Overall, students felt prepared in most of the important skills we studied. We also found a significant positive relationship between alumni‐perceived importance of general and technical skills and perceived preparedness for those skills. More recent graduates felt the most prepared for both general business and technical skills. Our findings highlight the importance of general skills for future advancement and caution educators against overemphasizing currently popular technical tools at the expense of teaching the more general business skills. Results presented here provide new knowledge for curriculum designers at the intended institution and lessons for other schools. This research also provides a methodology or process that can be repeated at other institutions that combine information systems with operations management, or with other functions such as decision sciences or accounting. An implication of the results is that schools redesigning their programs may want to consider a curriculum that combines operations management and information systems. 相似文献
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Good alumni relations are key to universities and colleges winning support from their graduates. With reference to social capital theory, an important problem in establishing strong alumni relations is how to turn alumni resources, an important university social network, into productive, public, and abundant capital. Based on the established alumni relation framework, the authors have investigated three major universities in China by means of interview so as to source factors that affect their social capital transformations. The three dimensions of cognition, relationship, and structure are the focus of this paper. The authors probe into solutions as follows: Firstly, establishing clear and appropriate values between institutions, alumni, and other stakeholders, and striving to reach the greatest degree of consensus possible; secondly, forming a partnership to meet needs in general based on close personal relations; thirdly, making sure that there are enough functional organizations, venues and channels to establish and maintain relationships with alumni in a holistic and well structured way. 相似文献
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《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(3-4):157-176
Abstract One of the areas of increased importance to social work pedagogy is the developmentof culturally competent practice skills. In focus groups, first and second year students, and recent alumni reflected on their growing awareness and competence concerning cultural diversity.Meaningful patterns emerged emphasizing the importance of psychologically safe but challenging learning environments, encountering theory through personal impact, the power of role models, and the need for a greater focus on the transfer of learning to the world of work after graduation. Classroom climate and teaching implications of the findings are proposed. 相似文献
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Sub-baccalaureate degrees represent a growing and distinctive sector of American higher education. However, policymakers and community colleges lack a clear understanding of the specific competencies learned in these programs that are useful in graduates’ careers. In particular, they overlook non-academic skills. This study uses qualitative interviews with sub-baccalaureate degree alumni (n = 98) to elucidate graduates’ perspectives on the range of competencies learned in sub-baccalaureate degree programs. Graduates reported learning several competencies that remained salient in the long term: cognitive processes and strategies, content knowledge, work ethic, self-efficacy, teamwork, and professional skills. In addition, this study analyzes whether disadvantaged students were more likely to report learning certain competencies. By describing a fuller range of valuable non-academic competencies, as well as how different student populations may vary in learning these competencies, this study contributes to a better understanding of sub-baccalaureate degrees’ value. These findings also provide insight for community college faculty, administrators, and/or policymakers seeking to build sub-baccalaureate programs that better prepare students for career success. 相似文献
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孟德会 《牡丹江教育学院学报》2020,(3):68-71
开放办学是高等教育发展的内在规律之一,是现代高等教育的基本特征,也是高校存在与发展的重要基础和基本条件。校友是高校最宝贵、最丰富的开放办学资源,是高校伸向社会、联动世界的触角,做好校友工作、用好校友资源,是高校开放办学不可或缺的内容。在开放办学话语下,校友工作必须解放思想,实现"三个转变":从"囿于现状"到"积极作为",从"单方获益"到"合作共赢",从"偶尔联系"到"常来常往"。创新方法,构建"三好体系":建好"信息库",织好"校友网",打好"感情牌"。聚力开放,打造"三类平台":建设校友互动"根据地",构筑社会合作"主战场",搭建国际交流"桥头堡"。 相似文献
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党淑平 《福建工程学院学报》2023,(2):198-204
大学校友会是由校友组成的一种非营利性社团,虽形式上可登记为独立法人实体,但无法脱离大学而独立运营,本质上属于大学内部的职能机构。为让大学获得校友资源的支持,校友会须通过积极的行动,将基于事实层面的学缘关系建构成蕴含社会资本的校友网络。校友会的功能定位与机构建设,可遵循“需求—功能—结构”范式,以满足校友需求为导向,确定校友会主要功能并设置对应的执行机构,通过有针对性的满足校友需求的持续性互动参与,在校友网络中建立起互惠和互信的承诺和期望,让校友网络中的校友资源成为大学可获得的社会资本。 相似文献
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Sergio Valenzuela Mayer 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2003,28(4):465-481
In this paper it is presented a virtual organizational environment, conceived with the integration of three computer programs: a manufacturing simulation package, an automation of businesses processes (workflows), and business intelligence (Balanced Scorecard) software. It was created as a supporting tool for teaching IE, its purpose is to give professors and alumni the possibility to practice and apply the concepts and knowledge of IE learned at school since the very beginning of the program. This environment allows perform many business processes functions of management; it is already running in both, Local Area Network and Internet. With this system running in a network, it is emulated the functioning of an organization, in which it is necessary a coordination of multiple actions for making decisions in a collaborative and integrated manner. The work developed in this virtual atmosphere permits the participants to face non structured problems, and also it is possible to develop their own skills and aptitudes for being a good professional. The Virtual Enterprise is managed by a Management Committee, formed by high level alumni and invited professors; they have the responsibility of achieving the productivity levels necessary to its own economic profit. The Intermediate courses alumni are in charge of the resources evaluation utilization. The lowest level alumni are in charge of Data Acquisition and feeding the Data Base. The Virtual Enterprise compromises the Industrial Engineering School as a whole, and all the students feel their belonging since the first courses, it motivates them to search for the knowledge and desire to be an Industrial Engineer. 相似文献
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A. Kool M. T. Mainhard A. D. C. Jaarsma M. Brekelmans P. van Beukelen 《High Ability Studies》2016,27(2):179-192
This study compared Dutch alumni who previously participated in an honors program (n = 72) to non-honors alumni who entered university as high-achieving high school students (n = 72) with regard to (1) final university grade point average (GPA) and (2) early career outcomes. Final grades were drawn from university files. Using an online questionnaire, participants were asked to rate themselves on work engagement and other characteristics in their current jobs. Results indicate that, compared to the non-honors control group, honors alumni had a higher study GPA at the end of their studies and higher work engagement after graduation, while job characteristics were found to be similar. Implications for educators and job recruiters are discussed. 相似文献
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喻春红 《扬州大学学报(高教研究版)》2010,14(5):75-77
实现高教强省战略,需要充分发挥各方力量,做好高校学生工作。校友是帮助实现这一目标的重要资源。做好校友工作,对扩大高校与社会的联系、增强学校凝聚力和影响力、争取更多教育资源都具有重要意义;做好校友工作不仅可以为高校学生工作提供内在的精神支持,也可以从外部为学生成长成才提供物质帮助,对大学生思想政治教育、职业生涯规划指导和就业工作具有重要意义。 相似文献
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Julie Cencula Olberding 《Innovative Higher Education》2012,37(2):71-87
Student philanthropy is a teaching strategy designed to engage students actively in the curriculum, increase awareness of
social needs and nonprofit organizations, and teach grant-writing and grant-making skills. This is the first study to examine
long-term effects of student philanthropy by surveying alumni years after their experience with this teaching strategy. A
majority of respondents indicated that student philanthropy had a positive effect on their awareness, learning, beliefs, and
intentions. Further, 86% of student philanthropy alumni had recently made charitable contributions, 71% reported volunteering,
and 15% served on nonprofit boards – all of which are much higher than the national averages for these behaviors. 相似文献
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Roddy Begg 《Tertiary Education and Management》2013,19(2):89-90
Abstract Based on a recently completed alumni study of 522 graduates at a private college in the northeastern Unites States, this paper presents a model for designing alumni research to assess higher education's effectiveness in preparing graduates for work and life. Results revealed substantial variation in alumni evaluation of their education. While alumni reported a high level of satisfaction with the academic programme and career preparation, their feedback suggests they seek more from their college experience. Results reveal that students who feel a sense of community are more satisfied with their overall college experience and those who are satisfied with their social life are more likely to recommend the college to prospective students. 相似文献
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Alumni studies use past graduates of educational programs or institutions to address various types of research aims. While alumni research is common in disciplines such as business, psychology, nursing, and social work, few criminal justice alumni studies have been published in the academic literature. This article reviews the types of alumni studies that are typically conducted, discusses reasons for conducting criminal justice alumni surveys, considers barriers to these surveys, identifies criminal justice‐specific themes that address why alumni studies are rare in the discipline, and suggests strategies for enhancing and expanding this sort of research in the discipline. 相似文献
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Gary R. Pike 《Research in higher education》1994,35(1):105-123
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.
Presented at the 1993 AIR Forum, Chicago, May 1993. 相似文献
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教育捐赠已成为一项广为称道的公益行为。面向社会,面向校友,多渠道筹措教育基金,是高校的重要资金来源。本文主要阐述了校友工作与基金工作的密切联系,并介绍了我校筹措校友基金,服务于学校的建设和发展的一些做法。 相似文献
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来华留学生校友工作是来华留学工作的重要组成部分.从留学生教育质量保障视角出发开展校友调查工作,不仅能为来华留学政策的制定提供参考依据,帮助大学建立国际化人才培养反馈机制,同时还有利于学校获得更多的社会理解和支持.为此,强化全面质量管理理念,提升在校留学生的学校认同感,以学校为主导加强各行业校友信息交流,调整留学生培养模... 相似文献
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周丽娟 《福建工程学院学报》2011,9(5):507-510
校友资源是高校发展不可忽视的一支重要力量。文章分析了校友资源与高校发展的关系,并针对高校校友资源的现状,提出了充分利用校友资源发展高校的路径:重视高校校友工作,努力培育"三个意识";积极响应校友诉求,深度开发校友资源;大力宣传校友事迹,发挥校友榜样作用;以校友带动校企合作,提升高校教育质量。 相似文献
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This paper explores the impact of an art-based learning experience on former Education students' professional practice. Feedback from trainee teachers indicated that the true value of the creative process was only realised after they had graduated – what I have come to term ‘deferred creativity’. The findings suggest that focusing on the development of their own creative characteristics, skills and attitudes helped students to become more creative practitioners. By drawing on the reflections of our alumni, we can help future students to develop the key creative competencies and skills required for 21st century life. 相似文献
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Justin L. Hess Johannes Strobel Rui Pan Carrie A. Wachter Morris 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2017,42(6):1128-1153
This study focuses on two seldom-investigated skills or dispositions aligned with engineering habits of mind – empathy and care. In order to conduct quantitative research, we designed, explored the underlying structure of, validated, and tested the reliability of the Empathy and Care Questionnaire (ECQ), a new psychometric instrument. In the second part, we used the ECQ to explore the perceptions of empathy and care of alumni/ae of an internationally ranked US institution, along with how perceptions differed by work experience and gender. Results show that participants perceived empathy and care to be important in multiple respects, most notably in relational aspects of engineering practice. Engineers with more engineering experience were more likely to perceive empathy and care as existing in engineering practice and as important to their work. While these phenomena are sometimes depicted as feminine qualities, we found no gender differences among our respondents. 相似文献