Alumi activities at the Faculty of Sciene and Technology

How can I work with alumni activities?

To make it easier for the University to stay in contact with alumni, they need to register in the alumni network. Please encourage current students and PhD students to register!

To facilitate the alumni work, the Faculty office has a coordinator for alumni issues, whose responsibilities are listed below. There is also a guide for alumni work and in the document library (requires login with email address and password A) you will find a number of documents related to alumni activities.

Role of the Alumni Coordinator

The alumni coordinator is responsible for or supports the following tasks:

• faculty-wide strategies and procedures
• coordination of activities within the faculty
• assistance with searches in the alumni network and on LinkedIn
• support with the design of alumni surveys and alumni contact details
• organization of some faculty-wide alumni activities
• the Faculty's alumni newsletters each semester
• the Faculty's alumni-related presence on LinkedIn
• the Faculty's alumni webpage.

Please contact the alumni coordinator if you need contact details of alumni or if you want to discuss thoughts and ideas.

Guidebook

The alumni work guide (requires login with email address and password A) contains:

• suggestions for activities for teachers, departments, program responsible professors, and study counselors.
• tips on how to get in touch with alumni
• an overview of the faculty's alumni activities.

Alumni surveys as educational evaluation

Alumni have unique insights into what it is like to study a programme and how well the education prepares graduates for the labour market. For this reason, alumni surveys are a valuable tool for educational evaluation.

In the past, the Office of Science and Technology conducted alumni surveys on behalf of the Faculty, but the response rate became too low for the results to be useful. Experience has shown that surveys conducted at programme or departmental level achieve much higher response rates. We have therefore redirected our resources towards providing support with the development of survey questions and the identification of alumni contact details.

Please contact the Alumni Coordinator for assistance with your alumni survey.

All previous alumni surveys are available in the document library (requires login with email address and password A).

Support material for organizing "mini-mentoring programs"

There is also support material for organizing "mini-mentoring programs" (requires login with email address and password A), where students can meet alumni. Choose parts that suit your activity or use the material as it is.

University-wide alumni activities

All university-wide alumni activities are coordinated by the Development Office. They manage the university's external alumni website, administer the alumni network and its associations, and provide overall support to departments and programs.

The Alumni Network – what information is available about alumni?

Externally, the Alumni Network is described as "a global network for all former students and staff members of Uppsala University. The network offers you a way to keep in touch with the university and former classmates, as well as opportunities to meet new friends and give back to your Alma Mater. " This description is based on that we invite alumni to various activities via the alumni network and that there are several independent alumni associations that have their membership registers in the alumni network.

The alumni network is gathered in a CRM system from Microsoft Dynamics linked to Ladok and the population register. This makes it possible to obtain current e-mail addresses for alumni sorted by programme, place of residence, degree year and much more. The faculty's alumni coordinator is happy to help, for example, programme responsible professors, study counsellors and departments to search for alumni, as well as to support the student union. The alumni network is based on consent and personal data is handled according to current rules. The network is reviewed annually and alumni whose email address bounces receive a postal mailing with a request to update their information or be removed.

Internal goal for alumni engagement

The goals were developed in the Faculty Office's alumni project and the project also clarified the opportunities available to alumni, students and the Faculty. These were presented at a faculty meeting and can be found in the document library (requires login with email address and password A).

Brief objective

Our vision for alumni engagement is to perfect our mission as their alma mater and create lifelong relationships with our alumni that strengthen both parties.

More detailed objective

Our mission as an alma mater is to create lifelong relationships with our alumni that strengthen both parties.

We achieve this through high-quality education and by permitting our alumni to have an obvious place in the work we do in education, research and third stream activities.

We highlight alumni in our activities so that our students and doctoral students will see the University as an obvious part of their lifelong learning and will want to give back to us.