ABOUT THE JEWISH ALUMNI COUNCIL
Welcome to the Jewish Alumni Council [JAC]
As the central hub for alumni and parent organizations and leaders, the Jewish Alumni Council is dedicated to empowering alumni organizations and leaders through collaboration, proprietary shared resources and meaningful initiatives. Making groups individually and collectively more effecting in the pursuit of ensuring:
On-Going Engagement: Connecting regularly with fellow alumni leaders and organizations to build strong relationships with both structured and ad-hoc opportunities to build relationships and collaborate.
Knowledge Sharing: Learning and sharing best practices and innovative ideas to enhance your organization and community's impact both as an individual organization and as part of the collective alumni voice.
Access to Curated Tools and Unique Resources : Utilize tools and strategies assembled through tried and true real-time learning and careful development and curation. JAC provides both general resource access as well as Member Access Only resources, events, tools, strategies and partnerships.
Collective Action: Working together in different capacities to tackle shared challenges as well as campus specific ones to support Jewish stakeholders across all of our campuses.
Our Goals
As the Jewish Alumni Council (JAC), we believe in the power of community, collaboration, and the pursuit of excellence. Our mission is to create a vibrant and thriving environment for Jewish stakeholders on college campuses. We believe that a culture built on intellectual rigor, truth, objectivity, and institutional neutrality is key to ensuring a culture of inclusivity and mutual respect that is essential to combatting antisemitism. Together, we can create a campus landscape that empowers all stakeholders while contributing meaningfully to the rich tapestry of ideas and outcomes that define higher education. Here’s how we’re making that happen:
Assuring A Thriving Jewish Community on Campuses
Promoting Academic Excellence
Ensuring Consistent Accountability
We are committed to creating a thriving Jewish life on campuses. We believe strengthening Jewish identity and connection to Israel is important across the individual campuses as well as across all the campuses collectively.
Fostering thriving Jewish life is key to ensure Jewish student, staff, faculty, alumni and leadership can fully participate in campus life without fear of discrimination or harassment.
We are dedicated to actively combating antisemitism in its many forms and from any of its sources. This includes raising awareness about the various manifestations of Jew-hatred, from overt acts of discrimination to subtle biases that can undermine the safety and well-being of Jewish individuals on campus.
We are committed to ensuring that universities' reaffirm and exercise their unwavering commitment to diversity of ideas, academic excellence, and true leadership.
This intersects with their responsibility to address antisemitism on campus.
We advocate for an academic environment that encourages open dialogue with an emphasis on objectivity, fact and moral clarity.
We demand the adoption, exercising and enforcement, of equally applied codes of conduct, policies, and procedures that govern and protect all students, staff, professors, and leadership.
We advocate for transparent policies that address discrimination, harassment, and antisemitism, ensuring everyone knows their rights and responsibilities.
We insist on regular reviews, assessments and revisions or additions of policies and procedures to ensure they remain effective and relevant.
Connecting All Stakeholders
Maintaining Clarity of Perspective
We place a great importance on fostering connections among Jewish university stakeholders and allies across individual campuses as well as all campuses collectively.
By uniting Jewish alumni from various backgrounds and perspectives, the Council leverages its collective expertise and influence to make a meaningful impact on campus life and beyond.
Supporting student-led and faculty-led initiatives is key facet in our approach.
Together, we transform alumni and parent networks and partners into a force for lasting and meaningful change because when we stand united, we stand unshakeable.
We value our independence because it allows us to focus on what truly matters--the needs of our community.
We are committed to respond effectively to community needs and arising challenges while staying true to our core values and goals.
This flexibility ensures that we remain relevant and impactful in an ever-changing landscape.
Our Founding Members.
Our founding members are the heartbeat of the Jewish Alumni Council—active, engaged, and undeniably impressive. Committed to the success of all of our universities as a whole and to ensuring they thrive as beacons of academic excellence and reason and uphold their commitment to all community stakeholders equally. Each embody the spirit of community, collaboration and pride--driving initiatives that empower and inspire. With aligned vision, passion and dedication, we are poised to contribute significantly to the on-going higher ed conversations and culture shifts with the goal of ensuring that all Jewish stakeholders on campus are safe, thriving, treated equally, and an integral and valued part of each campus community.