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The Power of Alumni Engagement
December 11, 2015 @ 3:00 pm +04
Alumni relations is a well developed concept in the United States that has helped drive the growth of individual universities and the breadth of higher education. Alumni give back their time, talent and treasure to their alma mater supporting faculty, scholarships, mentoring, internships, and a wide array of alumni driven entities. In particular, Yale promotes strong volunteer leadership and innovative alumni programming.
Kathy Edersheim and Barbara Wagner will address why alumni feel so connected to Yale, how to motivate volunteers, and some of the structures that have been most successful in the development of effective alumni relations efforts at Yale.
Kathy Edersheim is Senior Director of International Alumni Relations and Travel at the Association of Yale Alumni. Kathy is responsible for Yale Educational Travel and the three global mission programs, YaleGALE, YASC (Yale Alumni Service Corps), and YASA (Yale Alumni Schools Ambassadors), as well as being part of the management team. Kathy is also working on a metrics project to assess alumni engagement. She is the founding Chairperson of YaleGALE and produced the YaleGALE trips to Australia, Japan, Turkey, China, and the U.K. prior to joining Yale. Kathy served on the AYA Board of Governors for four years. Kathy was the first woman President of the Yale Club of New York City – the largest college club in the world with a 22 story building located in the heart of midtown Manhattan – and continues to serve on the Board of the Club. Kathy won the AYA Volunteer of the Year award in 2008. In 2011, Kathy was awarded the Yale Medal, Yale’s highest award presented by the AYA, conferred solely to honor outstanding individual service to the University. Prior to joining AYA, she worked as a Financial Advisor and marketing professional. Kathy received an MBA from the Stern School of Business and her BA from Yale University.
Professor Barbara Wagner is the Director of the Chase Small Business & NonProfit Law Clinic. Before joining Chase, Prof. Wagner practiced law for over 30 years, including 10 years in private practice and over 20 years as an inhouse lawyer with Chiquita Brands International, Inc., most recently as Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. The number two lawyer in the department, her responsibilities included the company’s SEC compliance and other corporate, finance and corporate governance areas, as well as significant transactional work. She also served as the company’s Chief Compliance Officer from 2005-2007. Before moving inhouse, she worked at law firms in New York City (including Shearman & Sterling and Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom) and Cincinnati (Frost Brown Todd), where she was involved in a variety of corporate and securities law and transactional areas, as well as structured finance.
Professor Wagner’s prior teaching experience includes several semesters as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she taught hands-on corporate practice courses involving corporate transactional practice, drafting and negotiation. Prior to attending law school, she also taught an undergraduate corporate finance course at the University of Maryland.