Share Your Story

Promoting the Platform to the Campus Community

Strategies and tactics that have helped you grow the number of users on your PeopleGrove platform and increased awareness of the community across campus. Successful submissions in this category will outline a project or initiative that increased the number of students or alumni users. Submissions must also clearly define a challenge, discuss how the strategy was decided on, any unforeseen challenges in the execution and how you navigated that, and how you tracked results. 

Ensuring Continued Engagement for Student and Alumni Outcomes

Strategies and tactics that encourage continued adoption and engagement of the PeopleGrove platform once users have joined. Successful submissions in this category will discuss unique ways you are encouraging users to return to the platform and build connections. How are you weaving platform promotion into your existing communication framework to students and/or alumni? How are your career coaches, alumni engagement team, marketing team, and more leveraging the platform in their day-to-day work and processes? In what innovative ways are you utilizing the tools in the platform to support lifelong learning and volunteerism with your alumni? Special consideration will be given to submissions that outline how institutions are measuring the return on their efforts in this area.

Formalizing Experiential Learning to Drive Student Outcomes

Strategies and tactics that have successfully structured and scaled experiential learning initiatives across campus to improve student success. This category focuses on strategies and frameworks that have helped institutions formalize experiential learning practices—whether through internships, project-based learning, mentorship, or other hands-on experiences—and the measurable impact on student outcomes.

Successful submissions in this category will outline a project or initiative that enhanced student participation in experiential learning, demonstrating how formalized structures increased access, engagement, and career readiness. Submissions must also clearly define a challenge, discuss how the strategy was decided on, any unforeseen challenges in the execution and how you navigated them, and how you tracked results.

Driving Cross-Campus Buy-In for the PeopleGrove Platform

How have you successfully engaged stakeholders across campus to drive the adoption and integration of the PeopleGrove platform? This category focuses on strategies that have fostered collaboration between departments—such as career services, alumni relations, academic programs, and student affairs—to maximize the platform’s impact.

Successful submissions in this category will outline a project or initiative that secured cross-campus support, detailing how key stakeholders were engaged, how alignment was created across different priorities, and the tactics used to promote platform adoption. Submissions must also clearly define a challenge, discuss how the strategy was decided on, any unforeseen challenges in the execution and how you navigated them, and how you tracked results.

Telling the Story of Your Success

An institution’s overall approach to measuring the impact and success of the PeopleGrove platform on campus. Successful submissions in this category will educate attendees on the specific metrics chosen, explain the rationale behind the selection of those metrics, and discuss how they are tracked over time. Special consideration will be given to submissions that outline how these metrics are used to craft a narrative when reporting to office or university leadership.