School Admins Can Now Manage Their Alumni Business Directory

Every school's alumni business directory has someone who cares about it most — an alumni relations coordinator, an advancement officer, a volunteer board member, a dedicated graduate. Until now, keeping that directory accurate meant emailing the Hire Alum team for every edit and every new listing. Today that changes.

School administrators can now manage their own alumni business directory directly on Hire Alum. Edit your school's page, review and approve the businesses that want to be listed, and verify the alumni behind them — all from a focused area built for the people who run school communities, not for engineers.

What a school admin can do

A school admin manages everything about their own school's directory, and nothing outside it. Once you're assigned, you get a dedicated management area with three jobs:

• Edit the school page — the name, description, mascot, motto, brand colors, hero image, and logo that visitors see on your public directory page.
• Review directory listings — approve the businesses waiting to join your directory, or remove ones that don't belong.
• Verify alumni owners — confirm that the people behind each business really attended your school, giving them a verified badge.

Your access is scoped to the schools you're assigned to. You won't see other schools, platform settings, or anything beyond your own directory — which keeps the tool simple and safe to hand to a non-technical administrator.

School admin vs. platform admin: what's the difference?

Hire Alum has two distinct kinds of administrator. Here's how they compare:

Capability	School admin	Platform (super) admin
Edit a school's page and branding	✅ Assigned schools only	✅ Every school
Approve or remove directory listings	✅ Assigned schools only	✅ Every school
Verify alumni owners	✅ Per their school	✅ Everywhere
Manage multiple schools	✅ If assigned to them	✅ All schools
Set a school live / featured	❌	✅
Manage users, categories, payments	❌	✅
Assign other school admins	❌	✅

In short: a school admin gets a focused area for the school (or schools) they're responsible for, while a platform admin controls the entire platform. Most schools only need a school admin.

How to become a school admin

You don't sign up to be a school admin — a Hire Alum platform admin assigns you. The process takes under a minute:

1. Ask your Hire Alum contact to add you as an admin for your school. They enter your email in the school's settings.
2. Check your inbox. If you're not a member yet, you'll get an email inviting you to join as the administrator for your school. (If you already have an account, you're added right away — skip to step 4.)
3. Sign in with that email. No password — Hire Alum emails you a one-time code.
4. Open your account. A "Schools you manage" card lists your school. Click it to open the management area.

That's it. From that moment, everything in your directory is yours to manage.

How to manage your school directory

Once you open your school from the Schools you manage card, you land on a simple dashboard with three areas.

Editing your school page

Open School page to edit how your directory looks to visitors. You can update the name and short name, location, founding year, mascot and motto, your brand's primary and accent colors, and upload a hero image and a school logo (logos are automatically cropped to a clean circle). You can also set your school's website and social links.

Changes go live immediately. When you save, your public directory page updates right away — no waiting on a release or a review queue.

Reviewing and approving listings

Open Directory listings to see every business in your directory, grouped by status: pending review, live, and all. New submissions arrive as pending.

• Approve a pending listing to publish it in your directory.
• Reject or remove a listing to take it out of your directory. This removes the business from your school only — it doesn't delete the business, and any other directory it belongs to keeps it.

This is your editorial control: it's how you make sure the directory reflects real alumni businesses that belong in your community.

Verifying alumni owners

Open Alumni to see the graduates who own businesses in your directory. Each one has a single Verify toggle. Verifying an owner adds a verified badge next to their name on the listing — a signal to visitors that you've confirmed they really attended your school.

Verification is scoped to your school. Confirming someone in your directory says nothing about their status anywhere else, so the badge always means "verified by this school."

Why this matters

Handing the directory to the people closest to the school makes it better in three concrete ways.

It stays current. A directory that the right person can edit in seconds is a directory that actually reflects the school — accurate descriptions, fresh photos, and a brand that matches the institution.

It stays trustworthy. When the person verifying alumni is part of the school community, the verified badge carries real weight. Visitors trust a directory that a school stands behind.

It scales. Schools no longer wait on a central team for routine changes. New listings get reviewed faster, edits happen the moment they're needed, and the platform team is freed to support more schools.

Getting started

If you run alumni relations, advancement, or community for your school and you'd like to manage your directory directly, the first step is simple: sign in to Hire Alum with your work email, then ask your Hire Alum contact to add you as an admin for your school. Your Schools you manage card — and full control of your directory — will be waiting on your account.

Most alumni directories are only as good as the person looking after them. Now that person can be you.