Featured Testimonial About Creighton University
Want to stay connected with Creighton? Be sure to attend Creighton Days, our premier event for all alumni and friends, taking place this fall. Learn more!
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Note: While this content is geared specifically toward new graduates, we think there’s some useful information here for all alumni, especially if you’re looking for ways to continue to deepen your Creighton experience.
By Micah Mertes
Congratulations, Class of 2023. You’ve just joined a group of more than 80,000 alumni living all over the world.
Welcome to the Creighton alumni community!
There are countless perks to being a Bluejay. First and foremost is a lifelong connection to friends, mentors and the place you called home for four or more years.
Commencement isn’t the end. Your Creighton journey is just beginning.
Here are 10 things you should know as a Creighton alum.
1. How to stay connected
If you want to make the most of being a Creighton alum, your go-to website is alumni.creighton.edu.
This is where you can read about alumni benefits. Where you can find fellow Bluejays in your area. Where you can read the latest Creighton news and features and get the details on can’t-miss events all over the country.
It’s where you can read about our historic campaign, Forward Blue. Where you can make a gift to support the area of campus that means the most to you.
So, please — for the sake of your continued connection to Creighton — bookmark the site. And be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
2. How to update your info
We know the days following graduation can be a whirlwind of change. New cities, new jobs or internships, new beginnings, new worlds. But once things have begun to settle, we hope you’ll keep in touch.
If you want to stay connected with Creighton and your fellow alumni after graduation, the most important thing you can do is keep your info up to date. You can do so here.
When we have your current contact info, we can share exciting Creighton news and tell you about upcoming events and amazing alumni groups in your area.
We also want you to be able to share YOUR news with us. If something exciting’s happened in your life or career, let us know at alumninews@creighton.edu. And if you want to promote your business or connect your services with other Creighton alumni, you can sign up for the Bluejay Business Network.
3. How to find alumni benefits and resources
There are plenty of perks to being a Bluejay. As an alum, you have access to …
- Your Creighton email. When you graduate, you retain your NetID and password, with access to your Creighton email account through webmail.
- The John P. Fahey Career Center, a terrific resource for recent graduates applying to graduate school, looking to network or applying for a new job.
- Discounts on the Apple products at the student-run iJay store.
- Discounted monthly gym memberships at Creighton campus recreation facilities. Sign up here.
- A continued connection to our Jesuit mission and ministry through livestreamed St. John’s Mass, as well as daily prayers and reflections.
- A free subscription to Creighton magazine.
- Discounted rental rates for events at the Skutt Student Center and Harper Center. Learn more here.
4. How to get an alumni scholarship
Thinking about continuing your education? Creighton’s Graduate School offers all alumni a scholarship that pays for 25% of tuition for a variety of graduate and certificate programs.
5. How to prep for marriage, Creighton-style
All Creighton alumni and their children living in the Omaha area have the option of completing marriage preparation through the Creighton/St. John’s Marriage Preparation Office, including couples getting married at churches other than St. John’s. This is a wonderful way to experience the gifts of Ignatian spirituality and learn how to build a dynamic and successful marriage.
If you’re interested, email marriageprep@creighton.edu or call 402.280.2205 for an appointment at least six months before the wedding.
Read more about the program and its coordinator, Kathy Martin, who has helped prepare more than 600 Creighton couples to walk down the aisle.
6. How to connect with Bluejays
There are so many different ways to keep in touch with your fellow alumni — by school or college, by the city you live in, by your interests and affinities.
We have alumni groups all over the country. We have affinity groups for Black alumni, recent alumni and so much more.
7. How to find events
Of course, another excellent way to meet people is by attending one of the dozens of events we host every year. These gatherings take place all over the country and range from networking sessions to game watch parties to special events with Creighton President the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ, PhD. See what events are coming soon to a city near you
Our premier alumni event is Creighton Days (formerly known as Reunion Weekend). This year’s event will take place on our Omaha campus from Friday, Sept. 15 through Sunday, Sept. 17. That’s three days of reunion parties, food, fun, music and so much more. And to be clear, this is an event for ALL Bluejays (not just those celebrating their milestone years). Everyone is invited.
Learn more about Creighton Days here.
8. How to stay in the know
Over the past few years, we’ve really upped our game when it comes to alumni content. Not just stories about alumni (though we have plenty of those) but stories for alumni — stories about strange and unknown chapters in Creighton’s history, stories about the transformative changes taking place on our beautiful campus and, on occasion, even stories about Creighton’s failed attempt to make the world’s longest sandwich.
- See our latest news and features here
- You can also sign up for either or both of our alumni newsletters, Alumwire and Bluejay Bites.
9. How to volunteer
Here’s something tens of thousands of Bluejays know: It feels great to give back.
Creighton students and alumni are known for their commitment to service in the Jesuit tradition, for taking care of the people, places and things they love.
The University itself offers countless opportunities to do some good, locally and around the world.
Alumni and friends can stay connected with the University by hosting events, serving on alumni boards, becoming a Creighton mentor or recruiting students to Creighton. In supporting Creighton, you’re also supporting everyone Creighton supports!
10. How to give
Another excellent way to support the University is by making a gift to Creighton.
Creighton was built on a foundation of faith and generosity, and it continues today because of gifts from thousands of Bluejays, gifts of all sizes, gifts adding up something truly unique and powerful and transformative: the Creighton experience.
You can make a gift to any one of dozens of Creighton causes, whatever means the most to you. But where your gift can do the most (and most immediate) good is through scholarships.
By making a gift to scholarships, you’re helping maintain the access and quality of a Creighton education for the next group of Creighton students. In the process, you’re doing something that will make the world a little better, bolder, blue-er …
You’re helping to create even more amazing Creighton alumni like you.
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And did we mention Creighton Days (Sept. 15-17)? Well, if we didn’t … Creighton Days. Creigh.Ton. Days.
Seriously, you don’t want to miss it. We have it on good authority that each of the four days of Creighton Days will contain a scientifically verifiably higher concentration of CREIGHTON than any previous Creighton day in Creighton’s records.
