Alumni Development Is Grassroots Work: Guest Blog from OurSchool Australia
Caroline Milburn, is the Director and Co-founder of OurSchool – a program helping state secondary schools build thriving alumni communities in Austrailia. Here she shares her experience of their two-year pilot program. Here in Australia there’s been a tradition of private secondary schools developing their alumni communities to benefit students. That tradition exists in the university sector too. But there’s been no such tradition in the state school sector. State secondary schools are the only high schools in Australia that are tuition free. They were founded on egalitarian principles, established by the state as secular, free and open to all. It’s …

