This document discusses collaboration between different departments and colleges at a university. It provides examples of current collaborative efforts like alumni events, career services partnerships, and intercollegiate programming. Audience members are polled about their collaborative experiences and challenges. Speakers from different colleges discuss strategies for partnerships, like leveraging faculty and alumni, aligning with institutional strategies, and creating engagement opportunities that appeal to alumni. Maximizing existing resources and creating cross-disciplinary initiatives are presented as keys to successful collaboration.

2. CASE V
Collaboration, Not Competition:
Maximizing Resources
for Better Partnerships
December 2014

3. AUDIENCE POLL
By an Audience Show of Hands:
Public vs. Private Institution
With whom are you collaborating? Who are
you not, but wish you were?

4. PRESENTATION AGENDA
 Alumni Association
and campus partners
Colleges with one
another
Colleges and
departments

5. TWIN CITIES CAMPUS

6. 445,000 ALUMNI WORLDWIDE
62% in MN
36% across U.S.
2% abroad
*Percentages based on available alumni addresses.

7. UNIVERSITY-WIDE
COLLABORATION

8. UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS
 Geographic Meetings with Admissions & Development
 Alumni Relations Officers Meetings
 Mentor Program
 Corporate Clubs
 Entrepreneur Network
 Career Services
 Alumni Engagement Metric
 Student Unions and Activities
 Government Relations
 Provost Office
 Athletics
 E-communications

9. ALUMNI
COMMUNICATION
1. Minnesota (quarterly
magazine)
2. Alumni Angle
(monthly e-
newsletter)
3. At The U (monthly
email listing of
events on campus)

10. Homecoming
• Athletics & College Partnership
Alumni tickets
• College Partnerships
Homecoming Guide
Marketing Tools
Ski-U-Mania

11. This year, Ski-U-Mania was also used as a
volunteer appreciation event for the Law School.

12. Emerging Professionals Network

13. AUDIENCE FEEDBACK &
QUESTIONS

14. INTERCOLLEGIATE
COLLABORATIONS

15. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
DAY OF SERVICE
Chicago, Denver, NYC, Washington, D.C.

16. GEOGRAPHIC EVENTS
San Francisco/Bay-area alumni happy hour
and panel discussion
Denver and Boston happy hours
CASE V event

17. AUDIENCE QUESTIONS
What challenges do you have?
What can you share with the
group?
What works for your institution?

18. INTRA-COLLEGIATE
COLLABORATION

19. BUSINESS SCHOOL
PARTNERSHIPS
• Staff & Faculty as Stars
• Using the College’s Strategic Initiatives
• Career Center Partnerships
• Plugging in to the Student Cycle

20. COLLEGE OF
SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING
• Understanding how our alumni want to
engage and making those engagement
opportunities possible.
 Class of 1985 Chemical Engineering Reunion
 Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering Homecoming
Breakfast
 50th and Golden Medallion Reunions feature department
updates and department-specific break out sessions

21. PARTNERING WITH OTHERS
(Outside & Inside the University)

22. AUDIENCE QUESTIONS
Questions about opportunities and
challenges?
What are some of your takeaways?
Share ideas with the group

23. Top Takeaways
 Create a work group that makes sense for you
 Maximize existing resources
 Make faculty, alumni and staff your stars
 Develop interdisciplinary programming around the
strategic plan of your institution
 Make sure you’re working to engage alumni in the
ways that are meaningful to them—not you
 Power of a cup of coffee

24. CONTACT US:
Courtney Barrette
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
barr0396@umn.edu
612-625-2099
Mandy Iverson
Carlson School of Business
mjiverso@umn.edu
612- 624-5149
Joelle Larson
Law School
jblarson@umn.edu
612-626-5363
Erin Strong Elliott
Alumni Association
estrong@umn.edu
612-625-9187
Ann Terry
College of Science and Engineering
asterry@umn.edu
612-626-1802