This study surveyed the alumni of COBE at Makerere to obtain their perceptions of the management and administration of COBE and whether COBE had helped develop their confidence as health workers, competence in primary health care and willingness and ability to work in rural communities.
A study of orphanage alumni in the US found that the alumni fared well compared to their non-orphanage counterparts in terms of economic and emotional wellbeing and that alumni credited the structure of the orphanage, including the work ethic and religious teaching, with their long term wellbeing [27].
Our numbers seem to align with the national trend: according to a study of TFA alumni, less than a third of corps members are still in the classroom after five years.
Of the alumni studied, 49.6 percent received need-based financial aid through some combination of scholarships, loans and campus jobs.
Organizers say the proposals they presented are based on analysis of available data about postdocs, including various recent publications such as the 2014 UCSF Campus Climate Project Final Report; a study of UCSF postdoc alumni; and the December 2014 National Academies' report, The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited.
On a parallel track, we conducted an intensive study of other alumni magazines, not only from Ivy League schools but also from colleges and universities throughout the country.
In a key, long-term study of Harvard alumni, those who began exercising after age 45 were less likely to have died over an 11-year period than those who remained inactive.
Few studies have surveyed the alumni of these programs to establish their post-university views and whether the positive impact of COBE programs endures into the post-university life.
This paper studies how the alumni linkage, the connection between alumni faculty members and their alma mater, influences the individual collaborative behaviour of returnee scholars.
In a second study of callers contacting alumni who donated more frequently to the university, the performance effects following a visit from a scholarship recipient were even more striking: A month later, the callers had on average more than doubled their calls per hour and had achieved average weekly revenue increases of more than 400%, from $411.74 to $2,083.52.
