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PROGRESS

Expanding our advocacy base

Goal: Communicate with and honor our alumni publicly.

Progress:

  • We have expanded Homecoming activities, including a Homecoming Festival that debuted in Fall 2006, to bring alumni back to campus.
  • We have honored our alumni by establishing Alumni Month, held each April. The month features, among other activities, a revamped Distinguished Service Awards dinner and a Capitol picnic for legislative employees who are alumni, thereby leveraging our status as the capital campus. We routinely spotlight our distinguished alumni in our publications and at our events.
  • We have developed workplace alumni receptions and luncheons.
  • University Enterprises, Inc. now routinely offers special retail and restaurant promotions and discounts to our alumni.
  • We have nearly tripled our database of alumni e-mail addresses, allowing the University to communicate more efficiently and effectively with alumni. Our alumni address data is 99 percent accurate.

Goal: Increase membership in the Alumni Association.

Progress:

  • The Alumni Association now reaches more alumni than ever through its e-messaging and newsletter.
  • The Alumni Association has increased its outreach and marketing efforts and has instituted "summer membership" campaigns.
  • The Alumni Association has increased the quantity and types of benefits for members, has expanded the range of events and activities for alumni, and has increased alumni networking opportunities.


Goal: Communicate to business and political leaders our desire to be an active partner in regional development.

Progress:

  • Our Governmental Relations Office has developed more effective lines of communication with regional government bodies, the State Legislature and the Congress.
  • We have increased the number of civic leaders serving on advisory committees and boards throughout the University and it auxiliaries.
  • We distribute the President's annual State of the University address and the Sac State Magazine to regional civic leaders.
  • Our academic and construction planning in Placer County has expanded the range of regional leaders with whom we discuss the role of Sacramento State in the community.
  • We now bring leaders and donors to campus more often through such vehicles as the annual Green and Gold Gala.
  • Through the new Community Council, about 200 community leaders receive information by mail directly from the President's Office and are being regularly surveyed about the University's strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
  • We now utilize an e-advocacy program that provides an electronic forum for alumni to advocate on behalf of students, faculty and staff to state and federal elected officials. 
  • We have strengthened partnership efforts with the City of Sacramento and the Sacramento Regional Transit District. 
  • The University has active representation on the 65th Street Redevelopment Advisory Committee and the 65th Street Traffic Circulation Study Advisory Committee, as part of our ongoing relationship with the City of Sacramento.
  • We have increased our participation with the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce, including serving as a host and sponsor of the 2008 State of the City Address.