Currents Magazine
Currents, an award-winning magazine for CASE members, explores contemporary issues, trends, and best practices in advancement. The magazine takes an interdisciplinary approach to educational advancement, featuring articles on topics such as effective gift fundraising, the importance of storytelling, building connections with alumni of international schools, marketing to digitally savvy students, and the necessity of creating a productive workplace culture.
Currents shines a light on institutions and individuals who are doing exceptional work and pushing the field of advancement forward.
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Latest Content
Reputation as a Compass
“Reputation can be viewed as a compass to help university leaders navigate the waters of university governance,” writes Santiago Fernández-Gubieda in A Memorable Experience: A Strategic Approach to University Reputation, published by CASE. Here, he shares insights from his research into how leaders view the importance of governance decisions when it comes to cultivating reputation.
Current Issue
April - May 2026
DIGITAL-ONLY ISSUE—Giving through, not just to: transforming philanthropic messaging. Plus the latest in naming rights, how investing in students today sets the foundation for alumni engagement, rewiring giving through high-impact funds, and more.
Past Issues
January - February 2021
Circle of Excellence and Platinum Awards recognize innovative and inspiring work: this issue explores the flexibility and impact of award-winning ideas as well as the planning and strategy around them.
November - December 2020
DIGITAL ONLY ISSUE
Taking the sci-fi out of AI: making artificial intelligence work for advancement. Plus virtual volunteering, dementia and alumni relations, and integrating advancement.
September - October 2020
Mental health, resilience, and the road ahead: coping with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus enrollment marketing, combating the digital divide, and campus career services teams up with alumni relations.
July - August 2020
The future of advancement: how COVID-19 is changing our work for the better. Plus communicating in a crisis, alumni engagement metrics, creating a culture of accountability, and more.
May - June 2020
DIGITAL ONLY ISSUE
Protecting the future and shifting identities: How advancement professionals are grappling with change amid uncertain times. Plus, how to create engaging donor stories and more.
March - April 2020
Eureka! How institutions shine a light on the value of research. Also in this issue: multi-institution collaborations, demographic trends, and reevaluating traditional fundraising practices to engage women.
January - February 2020
What great ideas have in common are creativity and impact: the power to galvanize alumni, propel life-changing research, and tell moving stories. Inside this issue, explore CASE's Circle of Excellence Award winners, who are raising the bar in advancement. Celebrate and learn from their incredible ideas.
November - December 2019
Opening Doors: How independent schools foster equity and access, and support diversity. Also in this issue: data storytelling, GDPR guidelines, and how to cultivate a culture of communication.
September - October 2019
Breaking Barriers: How advancement professionals are meeting the challenges that face community colleges. Also, a shared identity of connecting alumni through affinity groups, and how alumni advocates are rallying alumni online, at the statehouse, and beyond.
July - August 2019
Advancing to the top: How professionals from advancement fields found their way to top leadership roles. Plus, advancement professionals share how to avoid data pitfalls, and CASE celebrates 10 years of training the next generation of fundraisers.