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Vision 2025
Make CETAA the best alumni
association in India
Presented by: Anoop John, E&C 2001
before CETAA Executive Committee
on 23rd
June 2017

CETAA Mission - from Bye-Law
● Maintain contacts with alumni
● Bring together alumni - promote professional,
cultural and social contacts
● Awards, scholarships, grants
● Financial help to alumni for research
● Promote entrepreneurship among students /
alumni
● Help students in training and employment

● Maintain website
● Mentoring for higher studies
● Help students in training and employment,
project works
● Technical talks in college
● Technical consultancy for community initiatives
● Engineering education in state & country

● Exctracurricular activities of children of
members
● Create member database
● Organize funds for own premises

How Other Associations Operate
● Group purchase benefits - IIT Delhi, IIT Madras,
Penn State, MIT
● Alumni News - IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay,
IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, Penn State, MIT
● Chapters Coordination & Governance - IIT Delhi
http://iitdalumni.com/user/landing-page/483 , IIT
Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur
● Newsletter - IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT
Bombay, Penn State

● Brand Building - IIT Delhi, Penn State, MIT
● Student Interaction - IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT
Bombay, IIT Kanpur, Penn State
● Alumni Database - IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT
Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, Penn State
● Transcript - IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati
● Guest House - IIT Madras

● Two year EC Term - IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT
Kanpur
● Full time staff - IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT
Bombay, Penn State, MIT
● Donate online - IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT
Kanpur, Penn State, MIT
● Travel Grants - IIT Madras
● Lecture Series - IIT Madras

● Merchandise - IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT
Bombay, Penn State
● Chair Professorship - IIT Bombay, Penn State
● Faculty Awards - IIT Bombay, Penn State
● Student Scholarships - IIT Bombay
● Events & Reunions - IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur,
Penn State, MIT

● Student Mentoring - IIT Guwahati, Penn State
● Startup Mentoring - IIT Guwahati
● Alumni Careers - IIT Bombay, Penn State, MIT
● Alumni Awards - IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, Penn
State
● Alumni Mentoring - Penn State, MIT
● Community Service - IIT Kanpur, Penn State,
MIT

● Online Voting - IIT Kanpur, Penn State
● Credit Card - Penn State, MIT,
● Library Access - IIT Madras, Penn State
● College Infrastructure - IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay,
Penn State
● Email Forwarding for life - Penn State, MIT

Annual Budgets
● IIT Madras - 2016 Fund raising - 55 Crore INR
● IIT Bombay - 2016 - 3.99 Crore INR
● Penn State - 2014 - 12 M USD Subscription
● MIT - 2005 - 72 M USD

What are we?
● Wikipedia - “The executive is the organ
exercising authority in and holding responsibility
for the governance of a state. The executive
executes and enforces law.”
● EC is an executive body that drives governance
● Adminstration and operations has to be full time
● Set strategy and direction for the organization

What Are We?
● We are an alumni association - we are primarily
about the alumni we represent
● We are a governance body - we bring structure
to the network of alumni spread across
● We are a centralized service provider - alumni
services
● We are a conduit of funds and contributions to
alma mater and society
● We are an aggregating entity - people, funds

Services to Alumni
● Alumni Networking - Database, Alumni
Platforms, Social Networks
● Alumni Career Services - Database, Job
Boards, Internal Placements
● Alumni Educational Services - Transcripts, any
other help with other government departments
● Aggregated bargaining power - Eg: Health
Insurance (IIT Madras)

Services to Alumni
● Coordinate alumni events - 10, 20, 25, 30 etc
year get togethers
● Awards to alumni
● Governance for chapters
● IT services for chapters
● Coordinate events for chapters

Service to Students
● Lecture Series
● Mentoring for Higher Studies
● Mentoring for Entrepreneurships
● Mentoring for Projects
● Paid Projects
● Internships & Jobs
● Awards to Students

Contributions to Alma Mater &
Society
● Support in Infrastructure
● Donations for any initiative as deemed fit
● Mobilize alumni around initiatives

Dichotomy with Chapters
● Alumni Association is primarily a governance
organization
● Chapters are primarily about social and
professional networking and physical meetings
● The primary objective of the creation of the
association is to happen through smooth
operations of chapters and the wide reach of
chapters

Some Action Items
● Raise annual budget & find funds
● Increase value proposition for alumni
● Involve alumni in governance and operations
● Vision, Strategy and Continuity in Execution

Financing through Membership
● Regular Member - Rs. 1000 provided at the
time of graduation
● Supporting Member - Rs. 1000 per year
● Charter Member - Rs. 10000 per year
Alternatively
● Rs. 1000 for the membership for the first 10
(5?) years after graduation
● Rs. 1000 per year after that

Financing through Campaigns
● Set up communication platforms that can reach
alumni
● Monthly newsletters
● Monthly communication with chapters
● Website and Social Media
● Drive campaigns through communication

Value proposition for Alumni
● Services that directly benefit Alumni
● Value proposition outside of the desire to
contribute
● Value proposition to alumni through better
services to chapters
● Services that mutually benefit alumni and
students

Involve Alumni More
● Representation of Chapters in Governance
● Online voting for proposals & elections
● Broad based discussions on ideas and
programs

Continuity in Execution
● Full time staff to take care of operations
● Longer term for office bearers

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