Association Mission and Creed  

Association Mission

The Arizona Alumni Association is committed to support the interests of the University of Arizona, its alumni, and its current and future students, through the development of mutually beneficial relationships.

Association Creed

“We believe a university should be a cooperative enterprise, a community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Collectively and individually, all are responsible for developing, supporting, and sustaining the objectives of the institution.

We believe that the division of these responsibilities and the organizational approach may vary from institution to institution. However, inherent in all such concepts is the premise that alumni have a continuing obligation to serve their alma mater.

We believe alumni are in a unique position to provide advice and counsel in university governance. In addition, alumni need to be committed to ensuring material resources in support of university needs.

We believe that alumni can best serve the university by joining together in an association that can promote and focus support and service and that the concepts for developing the alumni association's organizational policies should be determined by the alumni themselves.

We believe that it should be the function of an alumni organization to develop ways and means of alumni involvement and communication with their alma mater and to see that alumni are recognized as a respected and integral part of the university community.

Once we accept the concept of service to the institution and service to the alumni as our major focus we can begin to dream about the ideal alumni program. If we can incorporate these principles into our philosophy of operation we are well on our way to success.”