The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association recently unveiled an online engagement center with social-networking capabilities fit to engage — and elicit gifts from — even the feistiest of the Fighting Irish alums.

By Abny Santicola

* Alumni participation, a tangible representation of graduates’ devotion to the institution, came in at 54.3 percent.

With Irish Online, the alumni association is poised to have another record-breaking year in these areas, its Web site now serving as a hub of information and services, and doing what every Web site should aspire to do: Give members a reason to come back over and over again.