We need to work to insure alumni that the essence of Messiah's mission remains the same while looking for ways to stretch their collective vision for helping Messiah College adjust to meet contemporary and future challenges. An area that appears to hold the most promise for mobilizing alumni support is assisting students. Alumni volunteers for recruitment and advising should be started. Annual fund efforts should continue to focus upon meeting student financial need and supporting service and ministry opportunities for students. An alumni career network for advising and hiring students should be supported.
Alumni certainly desire communication.
An alumni web strategy needs to be done. It may be time to start to move from being solely an information provider to a more interactive, on-line community. The Alumni Relations Office is behind schedule on providing an alumni directory and according to these survey results should make that a top priority. Older alumni will continue to expect and benefit from reunion class activities. However, there appears to be evidence of a declining interest in class-based activities for younger alumni.