If you graduated from a university, chances are that you receive some kind of regular publication from your school for free. The reason is that the administration wants to keep in touch with you, for this publication is many times also read by others, leading to future students. Plus, donations are always welcome. Here are ten noteworthy examples. I read an article last year, Alumni Magazines as a Key Part of Alumni Communications. Many alumni magazines are shifting from hard copy to digital platforms. This is much cheaper and also keeps up with the times. However, a surprise is that recent graduates sometimes complain that they want to receive something like this in the mail: “Oh, we love getting this! We get so few things in print anymore that this is really special to us, and we hang on to it, and it’s on our coffee table, and we flip immediately to alumni notes to see if our friends are there and see if their photos are in print, because they live in a ...

New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.