Alumni is a label an owner or admin puts on a member by hand. It is a way of tidying your member list, not a status the platform enforces. It takes nothing away from the member: their role, and everything that role lets them do, are exactly what they were before.
It does two things
- It moves them out of the way on your members screen. Alumni are hidden from the All tab and from every role tab, and collected under an Alumni tab of their own with a count. Their row carries an Alumni chip.
- It blocks one action. You cannot transfer ownership of the organization to a member marked as alumni. Clear the label first, then transfer.
That is the whole of it.
It is not a role, and it removes nothing
An organization has four roles: Owner, Admin, Member and Curator. Alumni is not one of them. It sits on top of whichever role the person already has, and the role keeps working. An admin marked as alumni is still a full admin and can still do everything an admin can do.
Three more things it does not do:
- The public does not see it. Your organization's public page lists alumni exactly like everyone else, with no chip and no separate section.
- It does not remove anyone. An alumni is still a member of your organization until you actually remove them, and their competition entries still feed the Participated section of your competitions page. See Hosted competitions versus competitions your members entered.
- Nothing sets it automatically. No graduation date, no education record on a profile and no length of membership will apply it. If a member is marked alumni, a person did it.
Setting and clearing it
An owner or an admin opens the three-dot menu on the member's row on the organization's Members screen and selects Mark as Alumni. The same menu item reads Remove Alumni Status afterwards. It is a straight toggle with no confirmation step.
One thing to expect on a large organization: the members screen loads 50 members at a time, and the Alumni tab filters only the members currently loaded, while the count beside the tab covers the whole organization. If the tab shows fewer people than the count, page through the list rather than assuming the rest were lost.