Give Our Newest
Tar Heels A Proper
Carolina Send-Off
arolina Clubs across
the country will host
events this summer in
honor of our newest
crop of Carolina
students. Student send-off
receptions are a great way for
new students to meet their
fellow classmates and alumni
while socializing and learning
more about Carolina.
Send-off receptions can range
from ice cream socials to full-scale
barbecues. Find out what the
club in your area is doing. Visit
alumni.unc.edu/sendoffs or call
(919) 962–6705.
GAA Online Digest
Look for these items at alumni.unc.edu
in July and August.
• Carolina College for Lifelong
Learning View the class listing for fall.
• Discussion Groups Linda Conklin,
manager of alumni career services, will
join the fray in an “Ask An Expert”
online discussion group about budgeting and financial planning for young
alumni. See BluePrints on page 104 for
details.
• Homecoming/Rampage 2007 and
the Black Alumni Reunion
Make your plans for the weekend of
Nov. 2-3,
find a
hotel,
chime in
on the
Rampage
message boards and see what’s planned
for your classmates or affinity groups.
• Student send-off receptions Find a
reception in your area and join fellow
alumni in giving the newest Carolina
students a proper send-off.
• Travel 2008 Check out the new
lineup, including trips for active alumni.
See page 6 for the From the Hill Online
Digest.
New Look,
New Features
The GAA is relaunching its Web site
this summer with a new design, changes
in how material is organized and features
designed to make it easier for alumni to
reconnect with each other and with
Carolina.
The changes follow more than a year of
outside research, including studying how
users prefer to utilize alumni.unc.edu.
(The search feature, for example, was popular among alumni volunteers involved in
the research.) Watch for the new Web site
and let us know what you think by sending an e-mail to car@unc.edu.
alumni.unc.edu
by the numbers
Carolina Clubs with
active Web pages
116
Alumni who have registered
in the online community
44,322*
Online directory records
(This directory includes records
for 254,048 living alumni,
52,636 deceased alumni,
as well as records of faculty, staff,
students and friends of UNC)
531,731*
Individuals with e-mail addresses
in the online directory
163,271*
Unique visitors in May 2005
26,595
Unique visitors in May 2007
30,038
MOST POPULAR PAGES*
TarNation/Online Directory
Employment
E-mail forwarding
Address update
Membership request/renewal
News article: “Carolina Dedicates
Memorial to 684 Alumni War Dead”
Barbecue message board
2007 Spring Commencement address
2007 Reunion Weekend schedule
News article: “UNC to Offer Graduate
Program in Disaster Management”
*as of June 15, 2007
