Alumni Association meets and exceeds President-designate Rosenberg’s membership challenge


The goal was to sign up 2,000 new members to the FIU Alumni Association in less than two months. In a new video-message, FIU President-designate Mark Rosenberg thanks the blue-and-gold community for exceeding his expectations.

By Martin Haro

Last May, shortly after being selected as the university’s fifth president, FIU President-designate Mark Rosenberg issued a challenge to the Alumni Association to recruit at least 2,000 new members within two months.

The deadline? June 30.

The result? “We recruited more new members in two months than many other schools recruit in a full year,” said Duane Wiles, executive associate director of the FIU Alumni Association.

“Wow, we did it,” Rosenberg said in a video thanking the FIU community and its supporters. “We achieved our Panther Pride Challenge of over 2,000 new Alumni Association memberships in the last two months. I am so pleased [because] great things are happening at Florida International University.”