April 28, 2009

Specialized Reunions Reconnect Alumni With Alma Mater, Encouraging Donations

By Kathryn Masterson

As reunion season gets under way this spring, some colleges find they can bring new flocks of alumni back to their campuses by offering separate weekends designed to attract specific groups of graduates.

Last weekend Yale University welcomed back 320 alumni for the first reunion specifically for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender alumni. For some of those individuals, especially the ones who graduated in the years before homosexuality became more accepted, it was probably

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