Wharton connects students and alumni

This month, the Wharton Alumni Relations Council launched its new Wharton Alumni Wisdom Newsletter.

Wharton Alumni Wisdom asks some of the school’s 85,000 alumni for their opinion on a question pertaining to student life. January’s question, for example, asked about international experience and study abroad.

Their responses are then summarized and compiled into an e-mail, which is sent out to Wharton’s undergraduate student body.

Wharton senior Jonathan Treble, who heads this project, says hearing alumni’s thoughts will help current undergraduates since alumni have the benefit of hindsight and might have new perspective on some of the issues facing current students.

Wharton Alumni Affairs Director Joan Adams Hewitt highlighted that the newsletter will bring benefits to alumni too.

“All in all, it is a win-win situation for both students and alumni,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Margarita Levin, co-chair of the Wharton Alumni Relations Council, said she is excited for undergraduates to take more value out of their alumni network.

“They will see the kind of potential they could achieve and ways they can contribute back to Wharton, based on what alumni have been doing,” she said.

Treble said February’s issue is likely to be on-campus recruitment-related, since the newsletter is intended to tackle a timely question.

“We think this is a low cost, high impact way to connect alumni and undergraduates,” he said.

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