How Your Membership Commitment Creates a Greater UC

Largely thanks to the ongoing support of its Sustaining and Life Members, the UC Alumni Association plays a unique and compelling role in the success of UC, adding value in a variety of ways.

How the UC Alumni Association benefits the university:

• Strengthens the connection between the institution, alumni and the community
  
  
• Encourages lifelong participation in university activities
  
  
• Creates a more informed and engaged alumni population, and the resulting ripple effect throughout the university’s work
  
  
• Fosters UC pride among alumni
  
  
• Recruits alumni to invest their time and talents to enhance UC’s institutional excellence
  
  
• Supports college and constituent-group alumni programming
  
  
• Helps the university identify and recruit potential students
  
  
• Encourages philanthropy in support of the university
  
  

How the UC Alumni Association benefits alumni:

• Helps establish and strengthen relationships throughout the vast UC family
  
  
• Offers a wide range of valuable services and benefits to alumni via their UCAA affiliation
  
  
• Stages events on and off campus, in Cincinnati and nationally/internationally, to enlighten, engage and connect alumni
  
  
• Conveys information and perspective about progress at UC
  
  
• Coordinates activities in more than 30 Regional Alumni Networks around the U.S.
  
  
• Serves as the voice of alumni within the UC community
  
  
• Provides a range of unique volunteer opportunities
  
  
• Honors outstanding alumni achievements
  
  

How the UC Alumni Association benefits students:

• Enhances the student experience through events such as student welcomes, Homecoming, Sibs Weekend and Commencement
  
  
• Promotes an “alumni culture” on campus through its student organization, the Student Alumni Council
  
  
• Supports and stewards scholarship programs for incoming legacy students, freshmen coming to UC from cities with regional alumni networks, and upperclassmen
  
  
• Provides networking opportunities between students and alumni