alumni

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MacDonald said she enrolled in St. Michael’s in part because her parents are alumni, and she wanted to play lacrosse for the school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

College alumni established booster clubs to recruit athletes under the guise of “name, image and likeness,” or NIL, endorsement deals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“Are you going to go after alumni who have been calling it Memorial Stadium? No. So you didn’t focus on that. You focused on people that could be more impressionable, and it worked.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Growth will typically occur over a five-to-seven-year horizon once alumni outcomes become visible and employer acceptance for these students stabilises as enrolment decisions are increasingly outcome-driven in India, according to Ghosal.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

One afternoon the principal called the entire school down to the auditorium to meet some "special alumni."

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos