Please enjoy a recap of the Reunion Weekend 2024 meeting of the Bucknell University Alumni Association Board of Directors. Our meeting weekend began on Thursday evening as usual with our Executive Committee meeting followed by a Board social in MacDonald Commons for all those members who traveled early for the board meeting the next day.  On Friday morning, our meetings began with a discussion of DEI topics led by Ann Malcolm ’80.  We were comparing two videos of TED talks at the following links: Mellody Hobson : Color blind or color braveAmber Cabral : 3 steps to better connect with […]

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The BUAA Board was excited to be back on campus for our Winter Meeting January 26 and 27. As usual, the weekend began with an Executive Committee meeting followed by some events downtown. The first event was our Distinguished Ambassadors Ceremony, held again in the beautiful Campus Theatre, to recognize those senior leaders on campus. Following the ceremony and reception held in the back of the theatre, the board was invited across Market Street to the Samek Art Museum’s Downtown Gallery, located in the historic Dewitt Building. Board member Brook Molinaroli ’90, acting as guest curator, had prepared an exhibition of […]

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To: Rabbi Jessica Goldberg, Hillel director and Jewish chaplain Dear Rabbi Goldberg, On behalf of the Bucknell University Alumni Association (BUAA) and its Board of Directors, we wish to express solidarity with you and all members of the Jewish community at Bucknell following the anti-Semitism directed at Jewish students and the placement of a swastika in a residence hall. We share President Bravman’s outrage that anti-Semitic acts have occurred at Bucknell. And we support the edict in his November 1 campus message that hateful speech, acts or symbols — directed toward any individual or group — have no place at […]

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The BUAA Board was excited to be back on campus for our Winter Meeting, Feb. 3-4, 2023. The weekend began on Friday evening with an Executive Committee meeting followed by two events at the Campus Theatre in downtown Lewisburg: the Distinguished Ambassadors Ceremony and a panel, “Celebrating Campus and Community.” The Distinguished Ambassador Ceremony honored Bucknell senior leaders for their service and dedication to Bucknell. It was wonderful to celebrate these seniors in-person this year! The panel, co-sponsored by the Bucknell Club of the Greater Susquehanna Valley and led by BUAA Campus & Community Chair Andy Lee ‘99, included Kendy […]

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The BUAA Board was thrilled to be back on campus for Bucknell’s Homecoming Weekend and fall meeting Sept. 30 – Oct. 1. We are especially excited to announce and welcome our newest members: Alumni Students The weekend began on Thursday, Sept. 29, with a lunch for the new student members, followed by the Executive Committee meeting and a new alumni member orientation. For the third time, the Board in partnership with the Center for Career Advancement hosted the very popular etiquette dinner, “Wine, Dine & Act Fine!,” for juniors and seniors. The evening wrapped with a BUAA Board social at […]

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The BUAA Board of Directors was thrilled to meet on campus for Reunion June 3-5. It was a stunning weekend to be “back home” for our Board meeting and, for those celebrating, Reunion (congratulations!). Whether or not it was your Reunion year, please enjoy our annual publication, the Reunion edition of The Bucknellian. The BUAA Board’s top priority for 2020-23 is to identify an intentional and meaningful role in the next comprehensive fundraising campaign, and in preparation, we are continuing to educate ourselves not only as ambassadors of Bucknell, but also how we as alumni might add the most value. […]

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The Bucknell University Alumni Association (BUAA) Board of Directors represents alumni and engages Bucknellians to ultimately promote and enhance the University. In 2016, we set a bold 5-year goal to increase engagement by 15% per year with students, alumni, and digital platforms to further our mission. Despite the challenges over the past few years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are proud of the aggressive goals we set and the hard work and energy that a volunteer group of 45-55 Board members exhibited. We have achieved a 5-year average of 17% with students, 24% with alumni, and 391% with digital […]

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While we were hopeful to be back on campus after a successful in-person Homecoming meeting, the Omicron variant made the decision for us, and we pivoted to another virtual winter BUAA Board meeting — our fifth in 24 months. We kicked off the weekend with an Executive Committee meeting, followed by a full-Board virtual social event using wonder.com. Our meetings on Saturday provided us with some fantastic University updates, as well as time for Committee meetings and the full Board meeting to gather and share.  For our University update, we were joined by the Deans of Bucknell’s three colleges: Raquel […]

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After 20 months of fully remote meetings, the BUAA Board finally met on campus during a stunning fall Homecoming weekend. It was so good to be “home” and to see one another in person — especially those newer Board members we’ve only met over Zoom. We conducted the meeting in a hybrid fashion, since some members were not yet comfortable being in groups gathered indoors. About two-thirds of our members attended in person, fully masked while indoors. I’m so grateful that we were together again and am hopeful that we can continue to meet on campus going forward. Our Homecoming […]

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While time has flown, this past year has been unlike any other of which I’m aware of in the history of the Bucknell University Alumni Association Board of Directors. Our 56 alumni and student volunteers have not been together or on campus since February 2020, but we have successfully held four regular and two special meetings virtually since then, including our most recent during Reunion Weekend in early June. Our top priority for 2020-23 is to identify an intentional and meaningful role for the BUAA Board in the next comprehensive fundraising campaign, and in preparation, we are continuing to educate […]

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