Top 15 Alumni Checklist

1. Stay connected with CBS!
   Update your forwarding address to receive updates from the school and event invitations by clicking here. Recent graduates will have 90 days after graduation to set up a forwarding address for your GSB email. After that time your GSB email will no longer have inbox or send capabilities.
2. Stay in touch on social media channels
   Follow CBS on social media to keep up to date with the school and catch fun events!
   Columbia Business School Linkedin
   Columbia Business School Facebook
   Columbia Business School YouTube
   Columbia Business School Twitter: @Columbia_Biz
   Columbia Business School Instagram: @Columbia_Biz
   Columbia Business School Young Alumni Instagram: @CBSyoungalum
3. Miss your professors? Audit a class!
   Need a refresher, miss your professors, want to take that course you missed during your time as a student? Contact [email protected] for more information.
4. Reunion
   Excited to celebrate your 1st year reunion? We are excited to welcome you back to campus for Reunion. Look out for an email at the end of this summer to join your reunion committee!
5. Join one of 80+ alumni clubs worldwide
   Connect with your fellow alumni in our domestic clubs, international clubs, and affinity groups to expand your network and attend Columbia Business School alumni events.  If you would like to engage with the Women’s Circle, you can find more information on our website.
6. Ambassador Program
   Volunteers will assist in evaluating candidates through assessment of their interviewing and communication skills, the quality of their work experience, and the match of the applicant with Columbia Business School.
7. Take a class on Alumni Edge
   A new lifelong learning initiative to support the career development of alumni, this series of programs represents some of the School's most popular courses and mirrors the lessons that our current students are taught in the classroom today. Free online courses offered one year after graduation.
8. Activate your account on My CBS
   MyCBS is an app and online community platform that puts a searchable directory of CBS alumni, links to job postings, invitations to events in your area, and news and information from regional clubs, affinity groups, centers, and programs right at your fingertips. 
9. Visit the Columbia Alumni Center
   Alumni are welcome to bring their own laptops and use the Alumni Center (622 W. 113th Street) for brief meetings Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information, visit the Columbia alumni website.
10. Get involved
    Interested in speaking at a student event or hosting a Five after Five dinner? Contact Xylina Cocinescu at [email protected].
11. Submit a class note
    Share your success, marriages, commitments, births, and career transitions with fellow alumni! All class notes are published on the Alumni website.
12. Take advantage of your access to CBS Career Management
    Both on-line resources and live coaching are available to you.
13. Hire CBS!
    If you seek top talent as your career progresses, consider posting a job on the CBS job board; and use the job board to find new opportunities.
14. Get your alumni ID card at the Library Information Office in Butler 201
    Free with photo ID, your alumni card is valid for 10 years and borrowing privileges available for $30 per month. Most resources remotely available through the CU Libraries will remain active to students for 6 months after graduation (11/30/23). After that point, alumni will still have remote access to resources listed here or you can visit the campus libraries in person to access resources. For more information on your alumni library privileges, click here.
15. Continue your education
    Interested in taking an Executive Education course? A 25% discount is offered to alumni and up to four colleagues. Contact [email protected] for more information.

For more information about alumni benefits, visit the alumni website.