Alumni finder - QAS online glossary

Definition:
Alumni finder is a tool that attempts to update alumni databases by following their movements after graduation.

Keeping track of alumni can be a frustrating and laborious process, but it is absolutely essential work for colleges, universities and other educational institutions.

Keeping alumni information up to date helps to ensure:

• efficient and effective fundraising campaigns
• a higher number of matches when using NCOA
• better results using tools like alumni finder

It is beneficial to have a correctly-formatted address when attempting to track alumni. This is due to the fact that the United States Postal Service® requires address information to be standardized before the National Change of Address service may be used.

The QAS suite of products provides educational institutions with tools that are helpful in tracking alumni through its

• interactive address correction
• address standardization
• access to the NCOALinkTM

Moreover, the interactive front-end aspect of QAS empowers departmental staff and student workers to capture accurate address information the first time over the phone, through the mail or on the web.

Related links

Read more about self-service address correction for alumni.
Explore QAS solutions for universities and colleges.