Include city/state in Other Education so that college-aged alumni can be pulled into regional alumni lists, even when their home address is not the same
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Erin Fumiko Kinney
We'd like to include college-age alumni in our regional event invitations, but because their home address is their permanent address, not college address, they do not pull in a state sort for their college state. We'd like city/state to be included in the Other Education field so that we can add a filter by area, city or state (with additional filter of class year) to include young alumni studying in areas where we have regional events.
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Elizabeth Babb ’82
Erin Fumiko Kinney We want our young alumni to use the platform as much as possible so I train each graduating class on creating their profile and updating it wiht pride - their college or gap plans, the email they want to receive communications from us on, a picture and their city/state. I also create a Class of XX digital space for them, subscribe them all to it, and train their class reps to use it as a way to reach the class. I want to shy away from being responsible for updating alum profiles - I want them to have to do it (and older alums too!). Only by getting them to use the platform and keep it updated is the alum directory of use for them, including the other items we offer on the platform. In any case, I hear you re your suggestion and that would work too/be supplemental.
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Erin Fumiko Kinney
Elizabeth Babb ’82 totally agree! We do those things too, but I want all my bases covered! :)
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Elizabeth Babb ’82
Erin Fumiko Kinney We are a high school too and use "other education" for college. I thought that you were supposed to direct college age alumni to fill out their banner with the city/state where they are studying but that their home address can be their parent's home. That way when you pull for events in a certain locale, you use their banner city/state instead of home. That's what we have been doing. We then ask them to put their mailing address for school (sometimes we mail care packages), in for "office" and we do not sync that to RE. Thoughts? Am I missing something?
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Erin Fumiko Kinney
Elizabeth Babb ’82 Yes, thatʻs a good workaround, but it would only work for young alumni who update their profiles, not the many who donʻt. Each summer, we add the newly graduated class to AB and include their new college as part of the import from RE. This info comes from College Counseling, so we have data for 100% of the class. If we could include city and state information with Other Education, we could also import this data and then pull regional lists for events.