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• There were other Focus Groups. The following is from the Alumni Group.
• A final Strategic Plan is being formulated from all the groups.
• The ASU Dekalb Alumni Chapter contributed items to the list.

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Strategic Plan 2012-2017 Focus Group Session

Alumni Forum

September 16, 2011

 

• Public Relations Improvement
• Involved with the City and County
• Signage on the yard and throughout the city
• More advertisement in South GA
• Better educate Alumni, community, students, supports,  etc…
• Updated and improved website, easier to navigate
• Career opportunities within the city for graduates and students
  • Improve the economic impact within southwest GA
  • Creating a process and system between alumni and students to assist graduating students in transitioning between the classroom and their chosen field
    • Develop a network between academic units and alumni
    • Mentorships
    • Coordination between alumni and Enrollment Services Offices in recruitment
    • Improve response time for the application process
    • Enhance process of notifying students of business processes
    • Ombudsman to communicate with the parents of potential students
    • Parent Orientation
    • Finalize registration prior to the beginning of the semester
    • Claim the institution as a great institution and then we will start believing it
    •  Make announcements during homecoming to remind alumni to register during the game so that a database can be created for future communication
    • Mend the relationship between the university and alumni
    • Highlight alumni on webpage so that they feel an ownership of the university
    • Create an exit interview for individuals who decided to stop attending for whatever reasons
    • Focus groups of students and institution
    • During freshmen orientation develop a session on teaching what education is all about
      • Opportunities to network
      • Opportunities to be mentored
      • Preserve our history of the institution
      • Establish a Historical markers
      • Obtaining more grants to help support scholarships
      • Inventory of learning styles
      • See a final version of the strategic plan
      • Why do we not have a graduate school
      • How to get the new admissions policy out

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