CASE Insights on Alumni Engagement Key Findings FY25

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Jun 02, 2026 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET

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Ready to learn about the latest alumni engagement key findings and trends? The CASE Insights on Alumni Engagement Metrics survey enables institutions to measure engagement across four modes: Philanthropic, Volunteer, Experiential, and Communications. These metrics allow institutions to capture various types of engagement on an annual basis and benchmark against peers and themselves over time.

Join this webinar to learn about the fiscal year 2025 key findings and trends and walk away with data to set goals, assess performance, build capacity, and make informed, strategic decisions about your advancement initiatives.

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Jenny Smith

Executive Director, CASE Insights in Data, Research & Technology

Jenny Cooke Smith is the Executive Director of CASE Insights in Data, Research & Technology at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, CASE and specialises in analysing advancement trends, interpreting comparison benchmarks, and helping people understand the "stories behind the data". Prior to joining CASE, Smith spent 15 years in a variety of positions within Blackbaud’s Target Analytics, most recently leading donorCentrics™ benchmarking cohorts, providing opportunities for institutions and organisations globally to review and discuss direct marketing and annual giving trends. She joined CASE in 2019 to help members find value through using data and is most proud that through projects like CASE’s Alumni Engagement Metrics, institutions can begin to answer questions such as ‘we know engagement leads to giving, but how do we show it?’. Smith is currently co-teaching a course on CASE’s Global Reporting Standards and researching the latest trends on alumni engagement globally, enjoying opportunities to present again in-person, and working individually with CASE member institutions to develop strategies using CASE data and benchmarks.

Fleming Puckett

Principal Research Faculty, Insights Solutions

Dr. R. Fleming Puckett joined CASE in 2025 as Principal Research Faculty, coming from many years in higher-ed. and philanthropic work that included consulting & speaking roles at CASE educational partners: Huron, the Advisory Board, and EAB. Fleming’s areas of specialization involve working with academics, Board members, and Advancement leaders to increase collaboration, develop stronger donor pipelines, surface transformational giving opportunities, and improve fundraising production to support the educational missions of schools, colleges, universities, and university systems. As part of our Insights Solutions team, Fleming presents at conferences and on college campuses to help our members turn CASE’s global & institutional data into actionable strategies. Fleming’s background includes academic degrees from the University of Virginia, Cornell, Boston, Columbia, Cambridge, and Oxford. Outside of CASE, Fleming serves on the Board of the Kalahari Peoples Fund, a non-profit organization that helps to identify and fund cultural & livelihoods projects in communities across southern Africa. Fleming’s publications to date have highlighted the power of philanthropy to help bridge the gap between community aspirations and government resources.

Nicholas Campisi

Director of Data Science

Nicholas Campisi, PhD currently serves as CASE’s Director of Data Science, where he uses R to develop benchmarking reports for CASE survey participants. He trained at top institutions in the United Kingdom and Germany, where he served as the department expert in R programming and taught introductory and advanced statistical analysis in R to university students. In his roles working with government bodies in the United States and United Kingdom, he integrated analysis in R with SQL databases and higher education data products.