Additionally, such groups often support new alumni, and provide a forum to form new friendships and business relationships with people of similar background.
Alumni associations are mainly organised around universities or departments of universities, but may also be organised among students that studied in a certain country. They are often considered to be the university's or school's old boy network (or old boys network).
In Anglo-Saxon countries, membership of an alumni association often goes without saying. In continental Europe, alumni associations are getting more and more popular as universities receive less money from governments and depend more on networking within civil society for funding.
Alumni associations are often organized into chapters by city, region, or country.
Corporate alumni
Alumni associations can also include associations of former employees of a business. An alumnus of a company is one who was formerly employed by it.See also
- British and Irish Graduates in America
- Capital Alumni Network
- Old Boy Network
- GCE Salem Alumni Network
- GCE Salem Discussion Forum
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Additionally, such groups often support new alumni, and provide a forum to form new friendships and business relationships with people of similar background.
Alumni associations are mainly organised around universities or departments of universities, but may also be organised among students that studied in a certain country. They are often considered to be the university's or school's old boy network (or old boys network).
In Anglo-Saxon countries, membership of an alumni association often goes without saying. In continental Europe, alumni associations are getting more and more popular as universities receive less money from governments and depend more on networking within civil society for funding.
Alumni associations are often organized into chapters by city, region, or country.
Corporate alumni
Alumni associations can also include associations of former employees of a business. An alumnus of a company is one who was formerly employed by it.See also
- British and Irish Graduates in America
- Capital Alumni Network
- Old Boy Network
- GCE Salem Alumni Network
- GCE Salem Discussion Forum
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Last updated on Thursday May 15, 2008 at 09:25:46 PDT (GMT -0700)
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