Most Supportive Alumni Networks #1 Princeton

tk21769
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:56:10 +0000

I think it’s fair to say that schools with the highest alumni donation rates also often have some of the highest levels of alumni participation in mentorship and volunteering programs.

How do we know there isn’t an inverse correlation? Perhaps alumni-who-give tend to give either time, or money, but not both. Perhaps some schools tilt more toward one or the other.

I would expect to see relatively high levels of volunteering and also high donation rates among alumni of many “regional” or church-affiliated colleges. However, without seeing some numbers, I don’t know for sure. Nor do I know how the “regional” (or religious) giving patterns (in either time or money) compare to the top ranked “national” (or secular) schools. This ranking does not appear to shed any light on that. It applies some kind of average of better-known rankings to a list of schools that won a grab-bag of staff awards, then (for some reason) calls the result a “best alumni networks” ranking. If the grab-bag of CASE awards consistently pertained to alumni networking activity, it might make more sense. As far as I can tell, the CASE awards are for many different kinds of staff activities; some of them even go to high schools not to colleges.

Maybe I’m missing something?