The goal of Alumni and Strategic Engagement is to build a lifelong community of connection essential to advancing USask’s mission, vision, and values. This office focuses on fostering meaningful, long-term relationships with alumni, donors, and strategic partners through purposeful interaction, and institutional celebration.

Alumni and Strategic Engagement mandate is:

• Facilitate high-level institutional engagement through landmark events, including Convocation and specialized stakeholder gatherings.
• Support the Alumni Association Advisory Board by providing the strategic and administrative framework necessary for alumni leaders to advise the university and represent the global alumni community.
• Strengthen the lifelong bond with over 180,000 alumni through diverse programming, mentorship, and networking opportunities.
• Communicate institutional milestones and impact to inspire pride and encourage active participation within the university community.
• Foster a culture of volunteerism and ambassadorship among graduates and friends of the university.
• Ensure alignment with strategic priorities by integrating engagement initiatives with the university’s long-term academic and research goals.

The office ensures that USask remains a vibrant, globally connected institution, where every milestone is celebrated and every graduate remains a vital, informed, and engaged member of the university’s future.

• Alumni and Friends
• Give

The units that makeup the avp alumni and strategic engagement portfolio, include:

• Alumni Programming
• Annual Giving
• Legacy Giving
• Strategic Events

The associate vice-president alumni and strategic engagement reports to the vice-president university relations. 

Kim manages the Associate Vice-President, Alumni and Strategic Engagement’s schedule. For meeting or general scheduling requests, contact Kim Yausie.