About

The Virginia Tech Alumni Association is a nonprofit, 501c3 corporation founded in 1875.

• 1875: Members of the first graduating class organize an alumni association and elect officers.
  
• 1891: The association reorganizes, draws up a constitution, and publishes an Alumni Register (precursor to the Virginia Tech Magazine).
• 1924: The association is incorporated.
• 1964: New bylaws are adopted as the association becomes an operating unit of the university.
• 1991: The association aligns administratively with the university, and a vice president for alumni relations and a director of alumni relations are appointed. The Alumni Association remains a private nonprofit corporation, but its staff becomes state employees.
• 2005: The Holtzman Alumni Center is built as part of a complex that includes The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center. The center is named for William B. Holtzman. Holtzman earned his undergraduate degree in horticulture from Virginia Tech in 1959. The Virginia Tech Alumni Association office location is in the Holtzman Alumni Center.
• 2015: The university implements the advancement model by combining alumni relations, development, and university relations. A vice president for advancement is named in July 2015. 
• 2019: The vice president for advancement assumes oversight of the strategic direction of the alumni association and takes on the additional role of executive vice president of the alumni association, along with the senior associate vice president for advancement and COO being named secretary-treasurer and COO.
• 2022: The vice president for advancement creates a task force to articulate the future of meaningful alumni engagement and participation at Virginia Tech through a reimagined working board. Task force recommendations are approved by the VTAA Board and implementation of recommendations begins.