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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 1353589, member: 1414"]
I can only compare my experience at two universities.  I live outside of Boston, which one would expect would have, along with NYC the highest concentration of UConn alumni in any major cities.  I'm a life member.   Yet the alumni association is lacking in many key respects.  I never "joined" the Kansas University Alumni association, yet I get stickers for my car annually, and I get constant invites to watch parties and other events in and around Boston.  More than I get for UConn.  That's pretty sad.

I haven't voted or decided how to vote, but my concerns are these:  The Foundation is a fund-raising arm, period.  That is not and should not be the function of the alumni association. It should bring in money, but that isn't the point of it.  The point of it is to help bring alumni together, remind them what they loved about the school, provide networking for graduates to help other graduates with jobs.  It's an extension of the camaraderie that existed when we were in school.  My view is that Kansas is just light years ahead of UConn in all these respects.  Will this change make that better or worse?  I don't know because they aren't talking about it.  The focus is on fundraising.
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