KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY Regular Meeting of the Board of Regents External Relations and Development Committee January 21, 2016 5:00 p.m. Cooperative Extension Building, Conference Room Frankfort, Kentucky

ALUMNI RELATIONS REPORT

Alumni Relations ongoing Projects:

  • Alumni Relations has been busy planning two important activities.
  • Presently developing a method to enable alumni to participate and play an active role in voting for their national officers via online ballots.
  • A partnership with Ed Poe and the Frankfort Kiwanis Club will conduct in February a two-day phone-a-thon on campus designed to recruit active members of the Frankfort alumni. The number of Frankfort alumni who live in the Frankfort/Franklin County area but are not presently involved with the University is over 2,000.

Alumni Highlights:

  • Identified an alumni for the 1890's Legacy Award. (Donald Hylton) attended the award ceremony in Indianapolis, Indiana.
  • During homecoming weekend worked with Cornelia Calhoun and Bill Rodgers to post welcome home alumni signs in 50 commercial business windows in downtown Frankfort. This effort generated a positive article in the State Journal newspaper.
  • Contacted all alumni chapters asking for financial support for students who needed funds to remain enrolled at KSU. In response, $1,000.00 was donated from the Frankfort Alumni Chapter.
  • Attempted to fill all alumni requests regarding homecoming reservations, game tickets and general requests.
  • Cleaned and painted exterior of Alumni House. Renovated the kitchen which included new appliances.
  • Worked with special recruitment of service area students, including school visitations (Western Hills and Eminence High Schools).
  • Provided support in the research of past grant funds given to University by the Council on Higher Education.
  • Coordinated a workgroup through IT to design online voting for the National Alumni Association upcoming elections.
  • Presently working on an interactive process for providing current KSU information online to the alumni association and general public.

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