ALUMNI NEWS ASU Alumni Association seeking Sun Devil love stories The ASU Alumni Association is celebrating Valentine’s Day by sponsoring a “Love Story” contest. University alumni are encouraged to enter for a chance to win a variety of prizes, including a two-night stay at the Tempe Mission Palms hotel and tickets to see “Avenue Q” at ASU Gammage. Stories submitted can be funny, heartwarming or serious, about brief relationships or a long-lasting marriage. The main requirement for submissions is that the story involves two ASU alums. Winners will be chosen by a committee and notified by e-mail or phone. The deadline for the “Love Story contest is Feb. 5. To enter the contest, or for more information, visit http://asu.edu/alumni/forms/09love_story.html.

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Alumni Association has “amazing year” in 2009

The Arizona State University Alumni Association faced a challenging economic climate in 2009, but its staff and volunteer leadership tapped their creative reserves in response, finding ways to continue the association’s support of the university and its current students, enhance the experiences offered to alumni, and expand its role as university tradition-keeper. They also found innovative ways to keep the organization healthy and stable.
Read more about the Alumni Association’s year

Christine Wilkinson named 2009 Valley Leadership Woman of the Year

Valley Leadership has named Dr. Christine Wilkinson, senior vice president and secretary of Arizona State University, and president of the ASU Alumni Association, its 2009 Woman of the Year. Her outstanding accomplishments and visionary leadership will be celebrated at the 61st Annual Man and Woman of the Year Awards luncheon, to be held March 25, 2010, at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel, 340 N. Third St.
Learn more about the honor

Alumni Association receives Green Devil honors for Homecoming efforts

The ASU Alumni Association was recently awarded the Gold level of the university’s “Green Devil” award for sustainability to acknowledge its efforts to reduce waste at the 2009 Homecoming Block Party. The association helped reduce waste in the areas of catering, waste/recycling, advertising and signage, offered promotional materials that were recyclable or compostable, and supported overall education of sustainable practices.
Learn more about ASU's recycling program

Senior Year Experience program partners with Boys & Girls Clubs

The ASU Alumni Association’s Senior Year Experience (SYE) program has partnered with the Valley of the Sun Boys & Girls Clubs for the 2009-10 academic year. A partnership between SYE and the Tempe Community Council, this program gives SYE participants on each of ASU’s four campuses a chance to help a deserving community-based program while having fun volunteering together.
Sun Devils aim to donate 2,000 hours of service

‘Time’ names ASU’s Crow a top university president to watch

Arizona State University President Michael Crow has been named by Time Magazine as one of the top U.S. university presidents to watch. The Nov. 23 issue of the publicationincludes a feature on the 10 best college presidents, which includes Michael Crow.
Learn more
Read Crow’s profile in Time

ASU celebrates homecoming with a devilishly good parade

Students at Arizona State University celebrated homecoming with a Halloween parade featuring Sparky, the Sun Devil marching band, Gov. Jan Brewer as grand marshal, and a block party along University Drive in Tempe.
See a slideshow of the highlights

Colleges turn to young grads

Arizona State University, along with Arizona’s other two state universities, is courting ever greater numbers of alumni under age 35 as donors, seeking a new fund-raising strategy as the state’s support of higher education fails to keep pace with current needs.
Alumni Association leads the charge with new programs, approaches

Alumni Association names Will Foster winner of its 2009 Super Fan Contest

Some couples search for something borrowed or something blue for their wedding day, but Will Foster, winner of the Alumni Association’s 2009 Super Fan Contest, went looking for something maroon and gold! He found it in a spectacular ASU-themed wedding cake, and his love for all things Sun Devilish helped put his photo entry over the top.

Foster will receive a prize basket of ASU-themed goodies for his winning entry.
Check out all the Super Fan Contest photos!

Alumni Association rewards service, support with Homecoming awards

The ASU Alumni Association will present its awards for Alumni Service and Alumni Appreciation during the halftime program of the ASU-California Homecoming game on Oct. 31. Jim Kane ’88 B.A.E. and Carol Peck ’71 B.A.E., ’75 M.Ed., ’79 Ed.D.  will receive the Alumni Service Award, and Migs Woodside and Donald V. Budinger will receive the Alumni Appreciation Award.

Meet the winners
View the full Alumni Association Homecoming schedule

Alumni Association announces inaugural members of Young Alumni Council

The ASU Alumni Association recently announced the members of its newly formed Young Alumni Council, which will direct and facilitate the development of the association’s Arizona State Young Alumni program, aimed at ASU graduates age 35 and younger.
Meet the council members

ASU's Ostrom wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Arizona State University Research Professor Elinor Ostrom has won the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, a prize she shares with Oliver E. Williamson of the University of California at Berkeley.
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ASU annual report highlights "Local Solutions, Global Impact"

The university’s annual report for 2008-09 provides a comprehensive view of the work being done at ASU in its quest to be a foundational model for the “New American University,” an institution committed to academic excellence, the inclusion of a broad demographic and maximal societal impact. The report illustrates the university’s commitment to improve the quality of life for Arizonans, even as units within the institution search for solutions to the major challenges and questions of our time.
Read the Annual Report online

ASU seeks to meet society's 'grand challenges'

Arizona State University President Michael Crow is outlining a new vision for the state’s largest university that seeks to encourage students to help society meet its “grand challenges.”
Read the news report
Visit the Challenges Project at ASU Web site

ASU Alumni Association brings home four awards for graphic design

The ASU Alumni Association was honored four times at the 2009 American Graphic Design Awards, presented by Graphic Design USA Magazine. The contest recognizes organizations and individuals who have demonstrated outstanding work in the field graphic design.

Design team honored for magazine, logo, event program

SAA members wear their pride, get free stuff

For Arizona State University undergraduates, getting rewarded can be as simple as getting dressed. ASU’s Student Alumni Association (SAA) will be offering prize giveaways this school year to members who quite literally wear their SAA pride on their sleeve.
Learn about SAA’s spirit-boosting program

Alumni Association Elects Board of Directors and National Council

The Arizona State University Alumni Association elected its 2009-2010 Board of Directors and National Alumni Council at the end of May. All members began their terms on July 1.
Meet the 2009-10 board and council

Alumni Association staff snags 3 awards in APEX competition

The ASU Alumni Association snagged three awards from the 2009 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence competition, including honors for its quarterly publication, ASU Magazine, and the association’s successful 2009 Founders’ Day event.
Learn more about the awards

Alumni Association president identifies keys to surviving recession

Christine K. Wilkinson, president of the ASU Alumni Association, was one of five local female executives interviewed for an article sharing their strategies for surviving the current recession. The article was posted June 28 to the MarketingMixUp.com Web site.

Wilkinson: listening, forward-focus crucial in tough times

Scholarship fund to honor Maria Hesse, outgoing Alumni Association board chair

A campaign to create a student scholarship fund has been launched to honor former Chandler-Gilbert Community College President Maria L. Hesse, who officially began a new job as vice provost for community college partnership with Arizona State University on July 1. Hesse ended her term as chair of the board of directors for the ASU Alumni Association on June 30 and continues on the board in the position of past chair.

Hesse has long history of civic, educational leadership

Seeing is believing, and the visual presentation of ASU Magazine, as well as that of a signature university event, Founders’ Day, recently received recognition in the 2009 American Inhouse Design Awards contest. All materials were produced by the communications and marketing department of the ASU Alumni Association, which publishes the magazine and produces the Founders’ Day event.

The department received kudos for its design work on three cover stories published in ASU Magazine during 2008: “Creating a University” (March), “What’s the Big Idea?” (September) and “The Future of the City” (December). The department also received commendations for materials used to promote the 2008 Founders’ Day awards dinner.

The American Inhouse Design Awards are sponsored by Graphic Design USA magazine. This year, more than 4,000 entries were submitted to the contest; the magazine reports that fewer than 400 groups submitting entries were honored with recognition.

Five people from Arizona State University have been named to the 2009 Phoenix Business Journal Forty Under 40 list that honors young leaders in metro Phoenix.
Who made the list?

Alumni chapters affiliated with the ASU Alumni Association strengthened communities across the United States on March 21, when they volunteered with local community-improvement events in conjunction with ASU CARES Day.

More than a dozen chapters participated

Be a social media Sun Devil on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter!
Social networking—it’s not just for the younger generation any more! ASU grads of all ages are discovering social media, and Alumni Association groups are there to share the connections and good times!
Get plugged into ASU’s alumni networks

A new Arizona law makes it illegal for license plate holders to cover the word “Arizona” on vehicle license plates. Before you buy a new holder to display your Sun Devil pride, why not get a free one, just by joining the ASU Alumni Association? Be sure to enter the membership code PLATE to receive the free license plate holder.
Join today!
Learn more about the change in the law

What are the things every Sun Devil should experience before they graduate? Does the list include climbing “A” Mountain? Learning how to make the pitchfork symbol? Marching in the Homecoming Parade?

Arizona State University is succeeding in its mission to increase both student access and student quality, according to enrollment data released by the university Aug. 28. ASU enrollment is shattering records once again, with a projected freshman class of 9,700 students and overall numbers expected to top 66,000.
Meet the freshman class.

Show your Sun Devil pride! Join or renew your membership with the ASU Alumni Association and take advantage of a host of benefits and opportunities to connect with fellow alumni and current students
Join today!

The Alumni Association has a variety of benefits and partnerships that can help you run your small business more efficiently and effectively.
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The ASU Alumni Association and ASU Career Services have partnered to offer all dues-paying Alumni Association members unlimited free career-related counseling sessions with Career Services advisors at any of ASU’s four campuses.
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