Including Graduate Degree in Addressee (Class of)

Susan ShebarFioribello
Susan ShebarFioribello
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We are debating the use of “class of” in some of our Addressees. It is pretty straightforward to do this for the first degree but sometimes we need to add a second degree. Usually, this is a graduate degree which would necessitate including the degree as well.

I don't see a way to configure this easily in the Addressee/Salutations configurations.

How do other Higher Education organizations address handle this?

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  • JoAnn Strommen
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    @Susan ShebarFioribello We do not include 'class of' in the addressees we use.

    I don't believe there is a way other than manual editing after output to show a second degree.

  • Faith Murray
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    @Susan ShebarFioribello, we don't include "class of" or degree in our addressees. That being said, the best way I could think of to handle this would be to include it as a separate export/merge field in your mailings. (Addressee line would look like this: <<Addressee>> <<GradClass>>)

    Including an extra attribute/education field is easy to do if you are exporting through Export and then merging in Word. It's a little harder if you export via Mail because I think only the Acknowledgement Letters allows attribute output fields; but you could always output via Export and then use Mail for appeal tagging/record processing afterwards.

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