Alumni
The Alumni Association is "the natural channel for maintaining a lively link between the former students of the University, their professors, and the fellow members of their graduating class". This is how the Alumni Association defines itself, and in the academic year 2000-2001 it enrolled its 15,000th member (including those who come from the IESE).
Since February of 1992, its mission involves being a vehicle of communication and encounter, as well as a tool for continuing education. However, its features do not stop there: the Alumni Association also aspires to become a seedbed and catalyst for social initiatives undertaken by the alumni.
Inspired by Alumni Associations in the USA
A visit to various public and private universities in the U.S. inspired the founders of the Association to found a similar organization here. In fact, the ability to view up close the functioning of American alumni associations provided a major aid for the creation of the Alumni Navarrenses at the University of Navarra.
Over a thousand graduates came to the campus for the first reunion. Alumni encounters, conferences, visits to the University, many photographs and even a gala dinner served to inspire nostalgia and memories of old times amongst those who attended. The then-President Alejandro Llano has remarked on the role that the Alumni Association has been called on to play: "The University of Navarra has your face and your eyes, walks with your fees, extends your hands in search of the necessary assistance. You are the social projection of the Unversity's message, its voice, which you make heard in the great city outside the University's walls, in many lands, in many countries". The following year, the Alumni Association reunited nearly 2,000 alumni in its second reunion.
The University depends on its alumni in order to continue promoting its prestige and vitality. And the facts show that this effort continues in the present day, based on the tenor of the reunions that are regularly celebrated. For example, during the academic year 2000-2001, the regional associations organized 84 activities, both in Spain and abroad. In addition, various publications contribute to creating a permanent link between the graduates and the University, in particular «Redacción» (80,000 copies) and the journal «Nuestro Tiempo» (9,500 copies).
Since February of 1992, its mission involves being a vehicle of communication and encounter, as well as a tool for continuing education. However, its features do not stop there: the Alumni Association also aspires to become a seedbed and catalyst for social initiatives undertaken by the alumni.
Inspired by Alumni Associations in the USA
A visit to various public and private universities in the U.S. inspired the founders of the Association to found a similar organization here. In fact, the ability to view up close the functioning of American alumni associations provided a major aid for the creation of the Alumni Navarrenses at the University of Navarra.
Over a thousand graduates came to the campus for the first reunion. Alumni encounters, conferences, visits to the University, many photographs and even a gala dinner served to inspire nostalgia and memories of old times amongst those who attended. The then-President Alejandro Llano has remarked on the role that the Alumni Association has been called on to play: "The University of Navarra has your face and your eyes, walks with your fees, extends your hands in search of the necessary assistance. You are the social projection of the Unversity's message, its voice, which you make heard in the great city outside the University's walls, in many lands, in many countries". The following year, the Alumni Association reunited nearly 2,000 alumni in its second reunion.
The University depends on its alumni in order to continue promoting its prestige and vitality. And the facts show that this effort continues in the present day, based on the tenor of the reunions that are regularly celebrated. For example, during the academic year 2000-2001, the regional associations organized 84 activities, both in Spain and abroad. In addition, various publications contribute to creating a permanent link between the graduates and the University, in particular «Redacción» (80,000 copies) and the journal «Nuestro Tiempo» (9,500 copies).
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