An alumni magazine is a magazine published by a university, college, or other school or by an association of a school's alumni (and sometimes current students) in order to keep alumni abreast of fellow alumni and news of their university, often with an implicit goal of fundraising.
An emerging version of alumni magazines are unrelated to educational institutions. Instead the intended readers are former employees of a company. An example of this type of alumni magazine is MoForever magazine of the law firm of Morrison & Foerster. [1] [Note 1]
The oldest alumni magazine in the United States is Wayland Academy's Greetings, founded in 1882. [3] Still published today, Greetings was initially mailed to Baptist families throughout Wisconsin, but by the July 1888 issue was devoted to "give former students a picture of present Wayland life and to furnish information regarding those who have once been its students." [4] The oldest known university alumni magazine is Yale Alumni Magazine , founded in 1891. [5] Chartered in 1636, Harvard University—the oldest university in the U.S.--established an official alumni association in 1840 but did not publish the Harvard Bulletin until 1898. [6] Seven years earlier, Yale University began publishing a weekly alumni publication, which has been credited as the first such periodical that dealt solely with college or university alumni matters. [7] In 1894, Princeton University started producing the Alumni Princetonian in the Saturday edition of the student newspaper. [7] The College of Wooster, however, has been credited as the first institution to publish an alumni magazine-the Alumni Bulletin-in 1886. [8] [7]
"The role of college and university magazines is to inform, interpret, interest, and at times to inspire." [6] Over the years, the role of these magazines has evolved from serving solely as house organs of college and university administrations to independent journalistic voices that report about campus life, even if the stories may negatively portray the university that sponsors the publication. Alumni magazines generally report to different university departments. "Most of the magazines receive some support from gifts, the college and alumni. Some editors report to the alumni association, while other report to the offices of alumni relations or development." [9]
The editor of the University of Idaho alumni magazine Idaho the University explicitly stated his view of the role of these publications: "Good university magazines hold themselves a little apart from the universities they serve and even farther apart from their alumni offices. They are not disloyal, but they are honest. That touch of independence is a reality check: There is a larger world to be served than just that of the university." [10] Almost two decades earlier, Mark Singer, the former associate editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine also had strong views about the importance of maintaining an independent campus voice: "An alumni magazine should be a vehicle for continuing education; the publication that functions as a house organ is bound to estrange its audience from the intellectual life of the institution." [11]
In April 1998, about 175 college and university alumni editors asked the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) to endorse a statement affirming the right of editorial freedom in their publications. Editors "should be assured the freedom to exercise their editorial judgment without censorship, within the framework of agree-upon editorial policy." The statement updated an earlier version on professional standards endorsed by the American Alumni Council, the predecessor of CASE. The proposed standards "balances good and bad news" and gives a "complete picture of the institution. The editors called on CASE to adopt the standards for all of its members and mediate disputes between editors and the university administration. [12] This current discussion partially arose because of the controversial 1995 retirement of Anthony Lyle, the editor of the University of Pennsylvania alumni magazine, Pennsylvania Gazette who published some articles that upset the Penn university administration. [13]
CASE refused the request and in October 1998 its commission on communications "concluded that it is not within CASE's mission to sponsor, endorse, or mediate the job conditions for any group of professionals within the association." [12]
Although there are several thousand college and university alumni magazines, no comprehensive listing of these publications has been published. [14] In 2013, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) published a study on some alumni magazine readers. [15] Some of their findings from 252 participating institutions:
Ivy League Magazine Network (Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Yale) conducts surveys of its member institutions. The 2019 Media Kit published the following findings about the alumni readers of these magazines: [16]
The Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year award, which bears the name of a former editor of the University of California at Berkeley's alumni monthly, helped initiate the award in 1943 which is the highest award given to alumni magazine editors. The first awards focusing on editorial excellence and achievement by alumni magazines were awarded by the American Alumni Council in 1929. More than 100 magazines competed for awards recognizing best editorial and best story on the achievement of an alumnus, among other topics. California Monthly—the predecessor publication to California, the alumni publication of the University of California, Berkeley—took home top honors for articles about alumni. Robert Sibley was the editor of the winning publication. [22]
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Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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116th and Broadway | Columbia Journalism School |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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ACU Today | Abilene Christian University | |
AIU ink | American InterContinental University | |
Alabama Alumni Magazine | University of Alabama | |
AlbanyLaw Magazine | Albany Law School | |
The Alcalde | The University of Texas at Austin | |
Alumni & Friends | University of Jamestown | |
Alumni Magazine | Black Hills State University | |
Alumnus | University of Michigan | |
ALUMNUS | Mississippi State University | |
American University Magazine | American University | |
Amherst | Amherst College | |
Arches | University of Puget Sound | |
Arizona Alumni Magazine | University of Arizona | |
Aspire: The Lehigh Carbon Community College Magazine | Lehigh Carbon Community College | |
ASU Magazine | Arizona State University | |
AtBuffalo | State University of New York at Buffalo | |
Auburn Magazine | Auburn University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Baruch College Alumni Magazine | Baruch College | |
Bates Magazine | Bates College | |
Baylor Magazine | Baylor University | |
The Bell | Thiel College | |
Bellarmine Magazine | Bellarmine University | |
Bentley Magazine | Bentley University | |
Berkeley Carroll School Magazine | Berkeley Carroll School | |
Berry | Berry College | |
Binghamton University Magazine | Binghamton University | |
Biola Magazine | Biola University | |
Bluffton | Bluffton University | |
Boston College Magazine | Boston College | |
Bostonia | Boston University | |
Brandeis Magazine | Brandeis University | |
BROOME Magazine | SUNY Broome Community College | |
Brown Alumni Magazine | Brown University | |
Brown Medicine | Brown University's Alpert Medical School | |
Bucknell Magazine | Bucknell University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Dakota State Magazine | Dakota State University | |
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | Dartmouth College | |
Denver Law | University of Denver's Sturm College of Law | |
DePaul Magazine | DePaul University | |
DePauw Magazine | DePauw University | |
DEMO | Columbia College Chicago | |
Dialogues | Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising | |
Dickinson Magazine | Dickinson College | |
Drexel Magazine | Drexel University | |
Drexel University College of Medicine Alumni Magazine | Drexel University's College of Medicine | |
Duke Magazine | Duke University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Eastern Magazine | Eastern Washington University | |
EKU Magazine | Eastern Kentucky University | |
Elizabethtown | Elizabethtown College | |
Emory & Henry | Emory & Henry College | |
The Evergreen Magazine | The Evergreen State College | |
Exchange | Institute for the International Education of Students |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Farmington First | University of Maine at Farmington | |
Flagler College Magazine | Flagler College | |
Florida Gator Magazine | University of Florida | |
Florida State Law | Florida State University College of Law | |
Fordham News | Fordham University | |
Forward | Seton Hall University | |
Fox Focus | Temple University's Fox School of Business | |
Foxcraft | Foxcroft Academy | |
Framingham State | Framingham State University | |
Franklin College Magazine | Franklin College (Indiana) | |
Furman Magazine (South Carolina) | Furman University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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GēDUNK | Grove City College | |
Georgetown Law | Georgetown University Law Center | |
Georgetown Magazine | Georgetown University | |
Georgia Magazine | University of Georgia | |
Georgia State University Magazine | Georgia State University | |
Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
Gold Coaster | Harvard University's Adams House | |
Gonzaga Magazine | Gonzaga University | |
The Graduate | University of Arkansas's Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences | |
Greetings | Wayland Academy | |
gssmNOW | South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics | |
GW Magazine | George Washington University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Hamline Magazine | Hamline University | |
Harvard Magazine | Harvard University | |
Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin | Harvard Business School | |
Haverford | Haverford College | |
Here We Have Idaho Magazine | University of Idaho | |
Howard Magazine | Howard University | |
Hue | Fashion Institute of Technology | |
Huntsman Alumni Magazine | Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Illinois State | Illinois State University | |
Illuster | Utrecht University | |
Indiana University Alumni Magazine | Indiana University | |
Industrial & Systems Engineering | Georgia Institute of Technology's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering | |
inPractice | Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences | |
Iowa Alumni Magazine | University of Iowa | |
ISU Magazine | Idaho State University | |
IUP Magazine | Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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John Carroll University | John Carroll University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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K-Stater | Kansas State University | |
Kansas Alumni | University of Kansas | |
Kentucky Alumni | University of Kentucky | |
The Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin | Kenyon College | |
Knightlines | University of Bridgeport | |
Knox Magazine | Knox College (Illinois) |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Lift | Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University | |
Link | Kansas State University's Global Campus | |
LMU | Loyola Marymount University | |
Loquitur | Vermont Law School | |
LSU Alumni Magazine | Louisiana State University | |
LSU Geology & Geophysics Alumni Magazine | Louisiana State University's Department of Geology & Geophysics | |
Luther Alumni Magazine | Luther College (Iowa) | |
Lynchburg College Magazine | Lynchburg College |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Maine Alumni Magazine | University of Maine | |
Marian University Magazine | Marian University (Indiana) | |
Marriott Alumni Magazine | Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business | |
Mars Hill: The Magazine of Mars Hill University | Mars Hill University | |
Maryland Carey Law | University of Maryland's Francis King Carey School of Law | |
Mayo Clinic Alumni | Mayo Clinic | |
Medical Alumni Magazine | Joint Medical Program of the University of Newcastle and the University of New England (both in Australia) | |
Metropolitan Denver Magazine | Metropolitan State University of Denver | |
McCombs | University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business | |
MCLA Alumni Magazine | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | |
Miamiam | Miami University | |
Middlebury Magazine | Middlebury College | |
Middlesex | Middlesex School | |
Mines Magazine | Colorado School of Mines | |
Minnesota Alumni | University of Minnesota | |
Mirage Magazine | University of New Mexico | |
Missouri S&T Magazine | Missouri University of Science and Technology | |
MIT Technology Review | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
MIT Sloan | MIT Sloan School of Management | |
MIZZOU | University of Missouri | |
Monmouth University Magazine | Monmouth University | |
Montanan | University of Montana | |
Montclair State University Magazine | Montclair State University | |
Moody Alumni News | Moody Bible Institute | |
MSU Alumni Magazine | Michigan State University | |
Muhlenberg | Muhlenberg College |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Nebraska Magazine | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | |
New Paltz | State University of New York at New Paltz | |
New York Law School Magazine | New York Law School | |
Newhouse Network | Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications | |
NMH Magazine | Northfield Mount Hermon School | |
Northeastern | Northeastern University | |
Northeastern College of Professional Studies Alumni Magazine | Northeastern University's Northeastern College of Professional Studies | |
Northern Magazine | Northern Michigan University | |
Northwest Alumni Magazine | Northwest Missouri State University | |
Northwestern | Northwestern University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Oberlin Alumni Magazine | Oberlin College | |
Ohio State Alumni | Ohio State University | |
Ohio TodayF | Ohio University | |
Old Dominion University | Old Dominion University | |
On Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
Oregon Stater | Oregon State University | |
OSWEGO | State University of New York at Oswego | |
The Owl | Columbia University School of General Studies | |
Oxford Today: The University Magazine | Oxford University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Pacific Review | University of the Pacific (California) | |
Penn GSE Magazine | University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education | |
The Penn Stater | Pennsylvania State University | |
Phoenix Focus | University of Phoenix | |
Pierce Alumni Magazine | Franklin Pierce University | |
Portland State Magazine | Portland State University | |
Pomona College Magazine | Pomona College | [23] |
Prairie | The Prairie School (Racine, Wisconsin) | |
Presbyterian College Magazine | Presbyterian College | |
The Pride | St. Mark's School of Texas | |
Primus | Columbia University College of Dental Medicine | |
Princeton Alumni Weekly | Princeton University | |
Principia Purpose | Principia College | |
Providence College Magazine | Providence College | |
Purchase | Purchase College, State University of New York |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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QuadAngles | University of Rhode Island |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Reed Magazine | Reed College | |
Regis | Regis High School (New York City) | |
Regis University Magazine | Regis University | |
Rensselaer | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
Rhode Island College Magazine | Rhode Island College | |
Rider | Rider University | |
Ripon Magazine | Ripon College (Wisconsin) | |
RISD XYZ | Rhode Island School of Design | |
Rowan Magazine | Rowan University | |
Rutgers Magazine | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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TCNJ Magazine | The College of New Jersey | |
TCU Magazine | Texas Christian University | |
The Tennessee Alumnus | University of Tennessee (all campuses) | |
Tepper Magazine | Tepper School of Business | |
Texas Aggie | Texas A&M University | |
The Tower | Kutztown University of Pennsylvania | |
Tradition | Cranbrook Schools | |
Triton | University of California, San Diego | |
Troy University Magazine | Troy University | |
Tufts Magazine | Tufts University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Vanderbilt Magazine | Vanderbilt University | |
Vermont Quarterly | University of Vermont | |
VISIONS | Iowa State University |
Magazine name | Educational institution | Ref. |
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Y Magazine | Brigham Young University | |
Yale Alumni Magazine | Yale University | |
Yale Law Report | Yale Law School | |
Youngstown State University: A Magazine for Alumni and Friends | Youngstown State University |
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