The Research On The Development And Utilization Of Alumni Resources Of Colleges And Universities

Generally speaking, alumni in the broad sense refer to those who once studied or worked in the same school, including all the graduates, school leaders, teachers, average cadres and other staff of the school.Alumni resources are the totality of the value of alumni's talent resources, financial resources, material resources, information, cultural and social influences. Alumni resources have the characteristics of definiteness and indefiniteness, visibility and invisibility, individuality and group identity.The development and utilization of alumni resources help to the further develop colleges and universities themselves, deepen the alumni-related work, promote the intrinsic value of alumni resources and satisfy the needs of alumni's psychological needs. At present, colleges and universities in China have taken some such measures in developing and utilizing alumni resources as enhancing the development of local alumni associations, strengthening the contact with the alumni, and promoting the development of colleges and universities by utilizing alumni resources.However, there are still the problems of inadequate mental consciousness, passive working attitudes, low working efficiency, utilitarian tendency etc. The factors influencing the development and utilization of alumni resources in colleges and universities involve consciousness, ability, system, policy and technology. The development and utilization of alumni resources must adhere to the principles of rationalization, affection and mutual benefit.The strategies and measures to develop and utilize alumni resources lies in: attaching even greater emphasis on the development and utilization of alumni resources, enhancing the construction of alumni association to ensure the development and utilization of alumni resources, constructing the platform for developing and utilizing alumni resources, building up solid network for developing and utilizing alumni resources.In the development and utilization of alumni resources, we should correctly deal with such relationships between micro-aspects and macro-aspects, minority and majority, "policy of inviting in" and "policy of going out", short-run and long-run development, and developing and utilizing alumni resources and serving alumni.