About alumni finder
Using the Alumni Finder you can search for of alumni and related individuals that meet certain criteria. Alumni don’t necessarily need to be students who actually graduated. You may consider individuals who completed a certain percentage of your program alumni or those without formal degrees alumni.
Prerequisites
Individuals appear in the alumni finder only if they are marked as alumni.
Required permissions
Module | Number | Description |
|---|---|---|
Alumni/Development | 940 | Use Alumni Finder |
Search on both current and former last name
A student may change their name during their career with you or after they graduate. If on their profile you record this new name and move their past name to the Former Name, you can tell Campus Cafe to search for both the individual’s current and former name when using the Alumni Finder. This can be helpful if you’re unsure which name is associate with the individual in Campus Cafe.
Go to Admin > Custom Control.
In Search enter FORMERFIND.
Click the pencil.
In Parameter Value 1 enter Y.
Click Save.
Go to Admin > Refresh Data Cache.
Search on individuals and organizations
You can tell Campus Cafe to have the Alumni Finder also search organizations. This is helpful if you have organizations that donate to your institution or otherwise support you.
Go to Admin > Custom Control.
In Search enter ALUMFINDER.
Click the pencil.
In Parameter Value 1 enter Y.
Click Save.
Go to Admin > Refresh Data Cache.
Go to alumni finder
Go to Filters > Alumni.
You can use filters to select the criteria of which alumni to return. To see or hide filters, click Add Fields and select those filters to show. See People Finder documentation for additional details o how to set criteria and work with results.
Alumni finder special actions
Find spouses of alumni
You can use the Alumni Finder to search for the first or last name of the spouse of an alum.
Go to Filters > Alumni.
Under Build Filters click Add Fields.
In Search enter spouse.
Select (check) Spouse In First and Last Name Search Boxes.
Click Apply.
In the First Name and/or Last Name boxes enter the name of a spouse.
Click Submit.
Send results to gift finder
After you return a group of alumni, you can send the results to Gift Finder to marry information on alumni with their donations.
With a group of alumni shown on the alumni finder, click Send Selected to Gift Finder > For All.
