Annual Report

Everywhere we look, we see grads taking an active role in shaping the future of the university and the alumni experience.

That's why we've decided to call this annual report Forward. Living. At WAA, we spent the year engaging with the UW legacy in order to build its future. In the following pages, you'll find some examples of what we mean: creating a new Founders' Day tradition aimed at students, in order to teach them how to become involved alumni; drawing on a legendary professor's lectures to create a Web-based course and develop the future of alumni lifelong learning; helping promote UW health science work that will address the future needs of the state.

Voices. It’s just one word, but it represents our biggest accomplishment this year and every year: Keeping alumni in touch with the UW.

In Voices, WAA’s 2006 annual report, you’ll find measures of accountability and sustainability. But our year in review is less about financial returns and more about how we’ve made an impact in 2006.

Some would argue that voices defy measurement, but we believe that every voice counts. Alumni phone calls and letters, participation in events, loyalty as members and volunteers, and interaction with the UW are among our greatest resources.