The Lawrence Tech Alumni App Offers a New Way to Connect

LTU’s Office of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement partnered with software company Raftr to create the Lawrence Tech Alumni App to foster alumni connections in a single online community.

The mobile-friendly app was released over the summer and is available by searching for “Lawrence Tech University” in the App Store or Google Play.

Within a couple of months of its release, about 250 alumni had joined the growing community.

“We are excited to continue building our alumni community by bringing them together in a vibrant, dedicated online space,” said Cyndi Spotts, assistant VP for LTU’s Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement team. “The app offers a venue to rekindle friendships, catch the latest news and happenings on campus, get involved with groups who have special interests, network, and join exclusive events designed just for our alumni network.”

Recent LTU alum Brianna Staton-Dauphin plans to use the app to do exactly that—especially to stay connected to her peers and campus happenings.

“I like that events are listed all in one easily accessible place,” said Staton-Dauphin, who graduated in 2023 with a mechanical engineering degree.

She believes current students and young alumni can benefit by using the app to network with other alumni and increase their professional and social contacts. “Unless they’re involved with Greek life, athletics, or other organizations on campus, they may not get many opportunities to make such types of connections,” Staton-Dauphin said.

While any LTU alum who joins is automatically added to the general alumni space, they can also sync with like-minded alumni by joining rafts, which are built around specific areas of interest. Currently, rafts are sorted by the years alumni graduated from LTU, clubs they belonged to on campus, organizations they joined as students, and even the region in which they live—in addition to other uniquely-built rafts.

Users of the alumni app can also join specific channels within a raft, such as the individual teams (Aero, Baja, etc.) that make up the Blue Devil Motorsports raft. Likewise, the Greek Life raft offers individual channels for each LTU-supported sorority and fraternity, and the athletics raft includes a channel for each sport.

Members can also create their own rafts and invite others to join, send direct messages, create group chats, and post messages to a larger audience. According to the platform’s developer, the app is designed for alumni to tap into LTU’s alumni network in ways that are easy to access, use, and connect.

Added Spotts: “We have the opportunity to bring alumni together in ways that we have never done before. I can’t wait to see it all come to fruition!”

For any questions about the app, please email the alumni engagement team at alumni@ltu.edu.