Date of Award
1991
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Education
First Advisor
Peter Carlos
Second Advisor
Daniel N. Keck
Third Advisor
Dominic Soda
Abstract
Lindenwood College needed more volunteers to help in the alumni and development departments. When this project began in 1988, alumni volunteers helped with the phonathon, mailings, networking for fund raising, and scholarship fund raising, as well as planning the annual Alumni Reunion. There were many more tasks than volunteers. Those who were faithful to their duties often "burned out" in a short time. As an active alumna, I felt the need for more help. We knew there were alumni willing to help, but we did not know who they were. When the development staff person who was to have developed a survey left, I volunteered for the job.
The survey was to have been for development purposes, but I broadened the scope to include those departments which needed alumni volunteers. I interviewed the heads of the alumni, development, and admissions departments and the archivist. While this work was in progress, an opportunity to test a Personal Survey on my classmates arose. I saw the need for two surveys that could compliment each other. The Personal Survey could be used alone or in conjunction with a volunteer survey, an opinion survey, a development survey or any other survey that would satisfy a particular need. The Volunteer Survey would be the one that was needed at the time.
After the pretest, I made changes to the Personal Survey. The Volunteer survey was completed and ready to be distributed. There was a delay of one year because of budgetary difficulties and staff turnover.
I wrote the first edition of the Lindenwood Connection, the first such alumni publication in many years. It included the surveys. When they returned, I sorted them and put them in folders for display during the Alumni Reunion that October of 1989.
Since then I have processed 3519 surveys from the publishers of the Lindenwood College Alumni Directory which also contained a volunteer section. The results of these surveys will be distributed to those departments which need them. This extra manpower will help each department reach its goals more efficiently.
Recommended Citation
Schaefer, Glenda Dawn Raef, "The Abstract of the Lindenwood College Volunteer Survey" (1991). Theses. 1316.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/theses/1316
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