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 In
this issue's 60 second interview, Rachel Witalec, vice chair of the
Communications committee, talks to us about the work of the Committee and her time at LSE.
More.
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 Encouraging
alumni to regularly attend informal events can often
prove more difficult than one would think.
Athina Markomichelaki
in Athens shares her group's innovative ideas.
More.
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Alumni Association
Leadership Forum 2011
The dates for the Alumni Association Leadership Forum 2011 have now
been confirmed as 23-24 September. We will be sending
more information out to groups and committees soon.
Interested in participating on an Alumni
Association committee for the 2011-13 term?
Look out
for an email which will be sent to you within the next couple of weeks with
information about how to make your application online.
 Sabbatical
officers to
join the Alumni Association committees
With their finger on the pulse of student life at LSE, LSESU's sabbatical
officers have joined the Alumni Association
Executive Committee and subcommittees.
See below for the sabbs who will be working with the
Alumni Association.
Executive Committee – Charlotte Gerada
(SU General Secretary)
AA Lifelong Contacts Committee – Charlie Glyn (Activities and
Development Officer)
AA Mentoring Committee – Charlie Glyn (Activities and Development
Officer)
AA
Communications Committee – Hero Austin (Community and Welfare Officer)
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 New look Houghton
Street Online!
Following the launch of the new LSE website last year, we have been working hard
with the School's web team and an external consultant to redesign the template for Houghton Street
Online. We will keep you up to date with these developments.
LSE100: one year on
In 2009-10, the LSE100 pilot attracted 400 first year students from a range
of LSE undergraduate degrees with 218 applications received by 8am on the
first day. Following the success of the pilot,
LSE100 is now compulsory for all incoming undergraduates,
enabling them to explore some of the great intellectual
debates of our time from the perspectives of different disciplines across
the social sciences spectrum.
Executive Summer Schools 2011
- 20-24 June and 27 June-1 July 2011
The 2011 Executive Summer Schools will expand to incorporate new
courses, read more about
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Reunion Class Chairs
We are delighted to announce this year’s
reunion Class Chairs will be:
-
Lord Judd of Portsea
(BSc Sociology 1956) for the
'50 Plus' reunion;
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Shami Chakrabarti (LLB
1991) and
Fiona MacDonald
(BSc Social Policy and Administration 1991) for the classes of
1990-94 reunion;
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Jonathan Black (BSc Government 1999) and
Chris Cooper
(BSc Economics 1996) for the classes of
1995-99 reunion.
We look forward to
seeing many of you back on campus for your reunion!
Notable alumni
announcements
LSE is delighted
to congratulate the
eight alumni and three staff
members who were honoured in the
2011 New Year Honours, along with David Gold (LLB 1972) and Jonathan
Kestenbaum (BSc Anthropology 1982) who have recently become
members of the House of Lords, and Pedro Pablo Errázuriz
(MSc Operational Research 1987), who has been appointed as the Chilean
Minister for Transport and Telecommunications.
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 All
change in the Annual Fund
We are
delighted to introduce two new members of our Annual
Fund team. Heather Campbell, who some of you have
already met, joined us as Head of the Annual Fund in
September 2010. She comes to us from the Annual Fund at
Imperial College London, where she worked for five
years.
Heather is joined by Shontae Romain, who started in
January 2011 and
will be looking after the Friends and Family programme. Shontae has worked in the Annual Fund at London Business
School for the past five years. No stranger to the
office, Shontae graduated from LSE in 2003, and worked,
for a time, in ODAR where she started her Annual Fund
career.
US Centennial Fund
campaign
In December 2010 we set
alumni, School leaders, parents and friends based in the US, the
challenge of raising $100,000 of unrestricted funds for the Centennial Fund by the end of
the US tax year on 31 December. Thanks to the generosity of donors
from the US, they exceeded their goal and raised a total
of $144,328 by the end of December. Thank you to all who
donated and helped us reach this target.
To date the Centennial Fund has raised
$201,243 in unrestricted funds this financial year.
Annual Fund calling programme
We welcomed 20 new student callers to the Annual Fund calling
programme for the Michaelmas term. Over the term they reached 2,111
alumni, School leaders, parents and friends of the School, updating
2,000 alumni details and raising £59,302 for the Annual Fund from 563
donors, 106 of whom made gifts to the Annual Fund for the first time.
Matched Funding Scheme
Don't forget that this is the third and final year of the UK
government's Matched Funding Scheme. This means that any gift that is
made by 31 July 2011 will be matched 3:1 by the government. Meaning
that, for example, a gift
of £300 is now worth an extra £100 to LSE. There has never been a better
time to
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Social networking
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