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New alumni online community a big hit

Published: 16 March 2004

UU直播 alumni are taking advantage of new opportunities to get back in touch with old classmates. With Alumnilife, the UU直播 Alumni Association has created a graduates-only online community, and its appearance seems to have struck a chord.

Graduates from every decade since the 1940s, and from every UU直播 faculty and school have signed up. While most registrants hail from Canada and the United States, the Alumni Association will shortly be making a greater push to get overseas graduates involved.

Membership in Alumnilife, which is free, allows graduates to do the following (all in a password-protected environment):

  • Sign up for UU直播 email for life or e-forwarding (until now, email for life has only been available to graduates from 2000 on). A web-based account with 15MB of storage space will be provided;
  • See complete class lists from all of their graduating classes (for large faculties like Arts, alumni will see a department list rather than a faculty list);
  • Search for any UU直播 graduate by name, region, field of work specialization and more (note that the possibility of contacting a graduate directly will depend on what contact information he or she has made available);
  • Update or correct information in their alumni records;
  • Enter and edit a brief profile with recent news, and even photos, while choosing what information to make available to fellow graduates;
  • Send a UU直播 postcard to a friend electronically. Note that the general UU直播 Alumni and Friends website still exists, and is still the best source of general information about the Alumni Association and alumni programs.

There are three ways to obtain a signup code for Alumnilife.

  • You may already have received a code by email from the Alumni Association. If so, with your code in hand, go to , click on "I want to become a member" and follow the instructions.
  • If you receive the UU直播 News, your code is the 10-digit number on the mailing label. Again, with your code in hand, go to .
  • Send an email to community.alumni [at] mcgill.ca (our help desk) with your name, UU直播 degree and year of graduation, and at least one piece of information that will allow us to match you to your alumni record (e.g., home address).
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