For alumni/ae

All alumni/ae

Previous requests, plus:

• Consider tuition a down payment for extending the learning experience into a lifelong community.
• Online experience should be a gateway to creating and sustaining personal relationships.
• Read faculty and student research, presentations, theses.
• Participate in live multimedia collaborations, including virtual presentations with streaming audio and video and live text interaction.
• Collaborate with students travelling abroad, share knowledge about cultures and services.
• Share professional knowledge and insight with other members of the community; evaluate important trends and developments in a chosen field and deliver alerts.
• Bring in feeds from my other social services and make them available within the online environment.

For young alumni/ae (class of 1999 and over)

Previous requests, plus:

• Supplement face-to-face experiences with online environment, which allows asynchronous, time-shifted, just-in-time communications.
• After a presentation, follow-up with a virtual dinner conversation. Then, check back in on that conversation over time.
• Intellectual toolbox of insight into context for the global and local events that are most important to me.
• Allow integration with existing and future social networks, such as relevant blog posts, YouTube favorites, Twitter status, more via RSS. However, avoid YASN (yet another social network).
• Find ways to connect for community service opportunities.
• Sustain affinity groups over time, including events, announcements, notes.
• Access the online environment on smart phones through a streamlined, pared-down version of the Web interface.
• Read archival content from the school’s long history via a timeline.
• Have selected types of content sent via RSS, e-mail, and text messaging.
• Online environment as intellectual and social partner through life.