CUSTOMER CASE STUDY

Scaling student and alumni engagement at Denison University

Denison’s Alumni Affairs and Career Services partnered to increase student success, alumni volunteering, and donor activation – while decreasing staff requirements.

“How do we make it simpler for our students and 30,000+ global alumni to connect to one another? Without adding more work for our team?

Challenge

A leading liberal arts college based in Ohio, Denison University has a passionate, global alumni community that expressed a strong desire (though a survey) to get more involved in the student experience. Similarly, Denison’s top-ranked Knowlton Center for Career Exploration wanted more students to have conversations with alumni to help shape their career journeys and find their passions.

Denison’s leadership team decided to invest in new technology that would allow it to accomplish three key goals:

Expand and simplify networking to all students and alumni

Reduce the work required to support networking and mentoring

Increase engagement, volunteering, and philanthropy of constituents

Protopia bridges the gap with alumni who might have otherwise remained disconnected, allowing them to contribute their expertise and support to students and fellow alumni. Our experience with Protopia has been transformative, and we anticipate further integration into classrooms and a robust marketing campaign to amplify its impact.

Sallie Sistare
Executive Director of Alumni & Family Engagement
Denison University

Solution

Protopia-powered Ask A Denisonian uses artificial intelligence to connect all alumni, students, and staff for advice and networking. Denison selected Protopia over other technologies for four key capabilities:

No app for alumni or students to sign up for or learn

Easy for even the busiest alumni and donors to help fellow Denisonians

Simple for staff to support while scaling networking to all alumni and students

Fast to launch and deliver value

Team Denison on how to scale engagement using AI

Hear from the Denison University Alumni Relations and Career Services teams how they partnered to launch Protopia-powered Ask A Denisonian to all alumni and students.

Results

Denison’s exceeded its first-year goals with a broad impact on student success, alumni engagement, and philanthropy:

Launched in six weeks as graduation gift to seniors

Exceeded first-year engagement goal by 175% with 350+ questions and 730+ alumni volunteers

Activated 333 prospects and generated over 50 leads for fundraisers

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Alumni that have received at least one volunteer opportunity

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Prospects that have received at least one volunteer opportunity

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Alumni that engage and update their alumni information

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