STANDING COMMITTEES:
Regional Associations Committee - The Regional Associations Committee is responsible for determining the most effective ways to promote good relations between the school and its alumni, parents, and current students residing within the geographical areas represented by the established regional associations. The Regional Associations Committee members share best practices from their respective regions in order to better understand the types of activities and events that foster connectivity between all of the various constituencies.
The Regional Association Committee is currently trying to determine how to better connect its committee members throughout the year in order to allow for consistent and intermittent knowledge sharing between Alumni Council meetings. In addition, the committee is consistently trying to improve regional associations' presence as well as activities within the respective regions, especially in the smaller locations that struggle to attain high levels of participation.
Annual Giving Board Committee - The Annual Giving Board Committee is a valuable sounding board to the Office of Academy Resources for fund-raising policies and strategies. Its mission is threefold:
1. to broaden the base of alumni advice and support to ensure a more successful annual class and reunion giving campaign;
2. to educate board members and provide them an opportunity to influence the outcome of the annual fund raising at Andover;
3. to advise the Annual Giving team in areas of solicitation strategy, implementation and in the recruitment and involvement of volunteers.
Class Secretaries Committee- The Class Secretaries Committee builds and reinforces mutually supportive relationships among class secretaries and between them and the school. The Committee helps class secretaries foster lasting relationships between and among classmates, maintain communications and cohesion within their classes, and perpetuate class members ties with the school. It provides guidance to incoming class secretaries, serves as a primary link among all class secretaries, and represents secretaries common interests to school administrators and staff. It explores and encourages the use of new technology to improve alumni communications.
The Committee produced a Class Secretaries Handbook in 1995 and revised it in 2002. The Committee plans to develop a new Handbook, available on-line as well as in hard copy, that will incorporate findings of a
special 2004 survey of all class secretaries.
Admissions Representatives Committee - The Alumni Admission Representatives Committee provides for the mutual exchange of information between alumni/ae and the Dean of Admission. It is generally responsible for advising the Admission Office on issues concerning alumni admission representatives, informing the Admission Office of important issues which may affect applications or yield (for example, issues concerning applicants, schools, or educational trends from the specific geographical regions), and reporting to the Alumni Council issues of importance to the Admission Office.
Athletics Committee- To be Determined
Mentoring Committee - The Mentoring Committee's purpose is to develop a community-wide mentoring and career network and associated connection tool that allows both current students and graduates to: identify others in the community with similar interests; make contact with those individuals, and foster a relationship based upon common interests and unique shared experiences (including, but not limited to, time spent on Andover Hill). The Mentoring Committee's current efforts include:
1. creating/adopting a definition of "mentoring" for the community that encompasses personal development as well as professional development.
2. assisting the Office of Academy Resources in choosing the design elements and categories/listings for the online mentoring tool provided by Harris Publications (within the BlueLink framework).
3. assisting OAR in design, marketing and roll-out strategies for the Mentoring and Career Network to give it the highest likelihood of success.
4. assisting OAR with driving registration of both mentors and mentorees for participation in the Mentoring and Career Network once it is finalized.
5. considering longer term tools (online and offline) for facilitating mentoring matches.
6. as a part of this longer term effort, reviewing other instances of successful online community development and involving Andover alumni who have experience in this area.
Young Alumni Involvement Committee - The best way for institutions to ensure continued strength is to foster close and genuine ties with their alumni throughout all stages of their lives. The members of the Young Alumni Involvement Committee are charged to maintain and enhance contact between the Academy and its young alumni. The activities of the committee vary depending on the needs of the staff and employees of the Academy, but all meetings focus on the short and long term goals of increased participation and contact between Andover and its young alumni.
Past Projects:
1. Began an ongoing dialogue with the Mentoring Committee focused on the needs of the young alumni and how to successfully market the mentoring program to a younger audience.
2. Provided feedback to Harris Publishing concerning the structure and capabilities offered by the school's alumni web-presence, BlueLink.
2. Discuss the location, timing and goals of young alumni social events organized by Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs Jenny Savino.
Future Projects and Questions to be Answered:
1. How is Andover quantifying young alumni participation and “ties to the Academy?” Is it number of participants in giving, number of attendees to young alumni events or dollar value of funds raised from young alumni? After answering the previous questions, how can the committee help tailor events to the goals of the Academy?
2. How is giving approached and instilled in the students while they are at Andover? Is the current technique and tone effective? Is there variation in how other schools broach the topic of giving?
3. How is giving perceived by the young alumni and rising seniors? How does Andover make young alumni feel about giving? Does this impact participation and contact with Andover?
4. What are other ways one can be involved with Andover other than writing a check? Specifically, what can one do while in college or right out of college?
Special Alumni Events Committee - The Special Alumni Events Committee supports Phillips Academy -- its faculty, friends, parents, students, alumni and alumnae -- in creating opportunities for gathering together and interacting. The goal is to create community -- with a "safe space" for ideas and people to come together. In creating community through shared celebrations, festivals, symposia, lectures, travel, etc., the Special Alumni Events Committee helps to build and sustain the intellectual and human capital of the Academy's various constituencies.
Multicultural Affairs Committee - The Multicultural Affairs Committee strives to support the Academy in the successful integration of students of diverse backgrounds into the Andover community. Our goal is to assist the Academy in identifying and providing those resources needed to ensure that students of diverse backgrounds can and will be successful contributors to both the academic and cultural life at Andover. The Committee also seeks to foster communication among alumni regarding topics related to multicultural affairs—i.e. events, publications such as “PRISM.”
The Committee’s role is to maintain communication with the Academy to allow for the exchange of information that would allow us to attain both our short term and long term goals.
Short term goals:
- Publication of PRISM
- Establish a working relationship, including frequent communication, with the Office of Community and Multicultural Affairs (CAMD)
- Identify ways the Committee can assist CAMD to achieve the Committee’s stated goals
Long term goals:
- Identify areas where the Committee can assist the Academy on the Strategic Plan—how do we ensure success at Andover
- Work with other committees—mentoring, alumni affairs, admissions etc.
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