Exploring the Mechanism Construction and Strategies of Alumni Association Work in Local New Undergraduate Colleges and Universities: Evidence from Fujian University of Technology

Abstract

As the number of fresh undergraduate graduates of general colleges and universities across the country continues to climb, alumni associations play an increasingly important role as a liaison platform for communicating with school alumni. However, under the increasingly complex social environment in the new era, most of the new undergraduate colleges and universities have not yet formed their cultural system cultivation, and the problem of alumni resources integration is prominent; insufficient attention to the work of alumni associations, insufficient mechanism and personnel protection, lack of sound departmental and management system, as well as the lack of development planning and information technology platforms; make it difficult to carry out the work of their alumni associations. This paper will investigate the current situation of alumni association of local newly-built undergraduate colleges and universities in China, analyze and summarize the main problems and difficulties of alumni association work, and take Fujian University of Science and Technology as an example, draw on the successful experience of its alumni association, and synthesize the experience of alumni associations of other general undergraduate colleges and universities, to take the best of their strengths and complement their weaknesses, and to solve the related problems. Finally, it explores the mechanism construction of alumni work of local newly-built undergraduate colleges and universities in the new era and the corresponding innovative strategies.