I had a chance to meet alumni members from my college in Kyoto (Doshisha University)about 2 years ago in San Jose. We don't have a formal network, but one of the sociology professor was here at Stanford for her research and we were getting together once in a while.
http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/
After she went back to Kyoto, she was able to get an approval for having a satellite class from Silicon Valley. She thought it's interesting and encouraging for college students to have connections with alumni and learn things from them. Alumni members were always willing to bring something back to the school and help students with our knowledge and experience.
I'm one of the members for this Spring semester and we had 3 sessions already. I'm learning from other alumni members as much as college students. We are all different age and work in different field. I will be teaching accounting/finance this week. Students in this class are very motivated and I'm impressed by that. I don't think I'm a perfect role model for them in any means, but I hope they can learn something from me and I can help them make decisions in life.
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