Welcome to our new look e.NCOUNTER newsletter, and we encourage you to visit the \u201cblog\u201d, and look forward to receiving your comments and feedback.<\/p>\n
An important announcement for this issue is to update you on Flinders\u2019 new approach to maintaining connections with its alumni and friends. Following recommendations from the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association, the University Council agreed that the time was right for a new approach to connecting with its alumni. The formal Alumni Association structure committee has been dissolved and a new model implemented. The new model has an alum or alumni as \u201cConsultative Chairs\u201d who engage with the Alumni Office and Alumni on projects and activities associated with the University and report to the Council through the Vice-Chancellor on a regular basis. I am delighted to say that alumni Liz (BA \u201969 DipEd \u201870) and Steve Kelton (BA \u201970 DipEd \u201971) have accepted the Council\u2019s invitation to provide the leadership for this new approach.<\/p>\n
Programs and activities involving alumni are already happening including the organising committee for the 40 Year Reunion program, the selection committee for the Convocation Medal and Distinguished Alumni Awards, and the Flinders (Investigator) Garden. A new program designed to engage with alumni through volunteering will be launched shortly.<\/p>\n
It is expected that the University will approve shortly, changes to legislation and associated rules to accommodate the new proposals and this will impact positively on our engagement with alumni.\u00a0 Graduates of the University are automatically recognised as alumni. Staff, former members of staff, students, former students and other persons who have had or who wish to have a significant involvement with the University continue to be recognised as alumni or friends of the University<\/p>\n
In closing, our sincere thanks must go, and deservedly so, to the Executive Committee of the now pass\u00e9<\/em> Alumni Association for their commitment, advice and time over past years, and for their input into the \u201cnew look\u201d approach.<\/p>\n Chris Jenner, Head, Development and Alumni Relations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to our new look e.NCOUNTER newsletter, and we encourage you to visit the \u201cblog\u201d, and look forward to receiving your comments and feedback. An important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}