UNSW pioneers new link with alumni
21st October 2004
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is the first Australian university to offer a lifelong email address to its many thousands of alumni, as part of a major effort to permanently engage alumni as part of the University community.
All existing alumni, as well as new graduates, will be offered the free address, @UNSWAlumni.com. It will allow for regular contact between the University and its 160,000 alumni, 13 percent of whom live overseas.
UNSW Alumni Life Email will provide 40-megabyte storage, protected by the University’s filtering service and quarterly updates on university and alumni news.
An online directory, which will facilitate networking between graduates is planned. The University also hopes to encourage intellectual and professional development opportunities, such as access to the latest research and streaming videos of public lectures.
“UNSW has the largest number of international students of any university in the world,” says Council member and President of the UNSW Alumni Association, Dr Jessica Milner Davis. “Since ten percent of our graduates live in Asia, this will help maintain communication with them.”
“Universities are supposed to be a community of scholars, into which students graduate as lifelong members,” she says. “The original concept was that the University would call a convocation, or a physical assembly of all these people. That has not been easy since medieval times, but now the Internet is allowing us to do it in a different way.”
More information on the UNSW Alumni Life Email is available at the life email alumni website.
CONTACT DETAILS: Susi Hamilton, UNSW Media unit, tel. 9385 1583, email susi.hamilton@unsw.edu.au.
All existing alumni, as well as new graduates, will be offered the free address, @UNSWAlumni.com. It will allow for regular contact between the University and its 160,000 alumni, 13 percent of whom live overseas.
UNSW Alumni Life Email will provide 40-megabyte storage, protected by the University’s filtering service and quarterly updates on university and alumni news.
An online directory, which will facilitate networking between graduates is planned. The University also hopes to encourage intellectual and professional development opportunities, such as access to the latest research and streaming videos of public lectures.
“UNSW has the largest number of international students of any university in the world,” says Council member and President of the UNSW Alumni Association, Dr Jessica Milner Davis. “Since ten percent of our graduates live in Asia, this will help maintain communication with them.”
“Universities are supposed to be a community of scholars, into which students graduate as lifelong members,” she says. “The original concept was that the University would call a convocation, or a physical assembly of all these people. That has not been easy since medieval times, but now the Internet is allowing us to do it in a different way.”
More information on the UNSW Alumni Life Email is available at the life email alumni website.
CONTACT DETAILS: Susi Hamilton, UNSW Media unit, tel. 9385 1583, email susi.hamilton@unsw.edu.au.
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