Non-Alumni Advisory Board Volunteers
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Non-Alumni Advisory Board Volunteers Judy Nagai & Kimberly Nehls
Published online: 26 March 2013 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Abstract Advisory boards typically offer guidance, support, social, and financial capital to academic units within colleges and universities. They are generally comprised of prominent volunteers from the community and appropriate industries or businesses. The results of this exploratory study found that non-alumni advisory board volunteers developed emotional connections and pride in serving the institution similar to alumni. The connections led most of the volunteers who participated in this study to have a high level of engagement with the institution that was meaningful to them and resulted in their desire to continue as volunteers, even without having earned a degree from the institution. Keywords Non-alumni . Advisory board . Hospitality . Higher education
External advisory boards are frequently found at the academic unit level in a college or university. Such advisory boards consist of prominent volunteers who donate time, talent, and treasure in order to enhance a unit on campus. The responsibilities of advisory board members are quite different from a board of directors or board of trustees in that the advisory
Judy Nagai earned her Ph.D. in educational leadership from University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and she currently serves as Assistant Dean of Development and External Relations at the Graduate School of Management for University of California- Davis. Her special interests are development in higher education, alumni relations, student affairs, and communications and public relations activities Kim Nehls earned degrees in speech communication and political science from the University of Illinois and a doctorate in higher education from UNLV. She serves as Executive Director of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), a non-profit, scholarly society dedicated to research in the field of higher education. She is also a Visiting Assistant Professor within the Department of Educational Psychology and Higher Education at UNLV. Correspondence about this article can be directed to her at [email protected]. J. Nagai Development and External Relations, Graduate School of Management, University of California- Davis, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA K. Nehls (*) University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Box 453068, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas, NV 89154-3068, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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board exercises no authority – fiduciary, policy-making, legal, or otherwise – over the department or college. Despite the lack of authority, it is becoming common to find universities, colleges, and schools that have assembled volunteer boards of industry experts to provide guidance, advisement, and fundraising aptitude and to act as a sounding board for the unit. Additionally, advisory board volunteers serve as “ambassadors for the institution and most often bring to the table distinguished careers in business, law, medicine,
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