Alumni Network
From Ecologic
The Rensselaer Alumni Association has started an Environment alumni affinity group called SustainAffinity. This is the first step in a larger push to help connect current students and alumni who are interested in preserving the environment and working towards a sustainable future.
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[edit] Prospective benefits
- Improve connections between environmentally interested RPI students after graduation (physical reunions, online communication)
- Connect alumni working in environmental fields to each other (job openings, project collaboration)
- Connect alumni to current students (to discuss hot topics, for job/internship opportunities, etc.)
- Provide new source of funding and advice for Ecologic and other environmental clubs (ESW, SEP, etc.)
- Organize alumni get togethers and ecologic parties that actually involve alcohol
[edit] Road map
- Contact as many alumni and current students as possible to announce the idea of an alumni environment affinity group
- Let them know it's coming, and see who'd like to be involved in starting to lead it.
- Contact the alumni association and find out what it would take to create a new affinity group.
- Kyle has some contacts in the alumni association
- Identify some initial officers for the group
- Start to figure out what the group could do.
- This would include events every summer at the alumni reunion, as well as some events throughout the year.
- Basically the same things that the other affinity groups do (or come up with some creative things to distinguish us from the other affinity groups).
- Figure out how this group could connect to the current student organizations and certain academic departments.
[edit] Ideas / Purpose / etc.
- Raise money for a sustainability fund for environmental improvements around campus
- Greening RAA events
- Connecting environmental alumni with environmental students
- Supporting green careers by encouraging networking, mentorship, etc.
- Channels of communication (email list, envirenns, etc.) between students and alumni
- Continuing traditions from alumni to current students
- Support the creation and continuance of sustainability curriculum, if this is possible at all
[edit] People
[edit] Alumni
- Kyle Gracey
- Frank Tobia
- Tara Clancy
- Elly Braco
- Sam Harrington
- David Jendras
- Sabine O’Hara
- Otto von Wachter
- Jesse Vollick
- Brian Whipple
- Jessica Lyons
- Elizabeth Widmeyer
- Jenn Zuba
- Lauren Schneider
- Jacinda Moore
- Sarah Parks
- Thomas Nickel
- Crystal Rock
- Paul Davidson
- Tom Mosakowski
- Dani Kumpulanian
- Aaron Kendall (AK)
- Cerissa Hoglander
- Melissa Megna
- Megan Anderson
[edit] Students
- Bev Bendix
[edit] Brainstorming and decisions
- What will the affinity group do?
- Just a mailing list for alumni and interested students/faculty/staff?
- Host conference or speakers periodically at RPI or elsewhere (like Building Trades or Biotechnology)
- Database of alumni donors for fundraising for environment clubs
- Source of mentors for students interested in careers in the environment
- Have special events during each summer reunion
- ???
- Some combination of the above
- Get a sustainability fund going - Alumni donate specifically to a fund that supports sustainability projects on campus - Maybe they could even vote on which one(s) to fund?
