The Influence of Alumni Next Door and Around the World

With alumni living around the world, it’s a challenge to give them all the same access to the UW. To help ensure a more consistent Badger experience at local alumni events, WAA formed an Alumni Touch Points Task Force.

The task force is a coalition of representatives from the WAA board of directors, UW Foundation and WAA staff, and alumni chapter leaders who meet monthly to discuss how to maintain a customer focus in all that WAA does. The task force is a manifestation of WAA’s promise to provide alumni with “a world of personal connections to the UW — enriching your heart, your soul, and your mind.”

With 25 chapters in the state of Wisconsin, WAA leaders, ambassadors, and members reach out to graduates in communities all over the state.

For example, in Brown County alone, UW-Madison graduates account for 560 educators, 479 engineers, 103 lawyers, 92 doctors, 109 nurses, 144 pharmacists and 27 veterinarians.

April’s Badger Alumni Day in Green Bay was an example of our new efforts to thank alumni like them by bringing a bit of UW-Madison to their locality. Watch the Badger Alumni Day in Green Bay slide show to see Bucky Badger and his WAA “crew” visiting Green Bay alumni, business leaders, neighbors and school children — our future alumni!

Going out beyond the state level in an ever-widening circle, WAA annually thanks and honors five special alumni whose influence is felt throughout the world. Please watch our biographical videos of the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients.