在相当长一段时间内，校友组织由于被担心涉入“帮圈文化”而成为限制发展的对象，其功能也大都局限在个人联谊、为学校筹集办学资金层面。结合2020年新冠疫情期间武汉大学校友组织的应急救援行动案例，可以从中发现，校友组织能在确定的角色下应社会需要变化适时调整自身的行动诉求，以同一校友身份为情感基点快速累积起大规模校友召集所需的信任，并在校友能人的拉动下快速响应、协同行动，从而在生产出多样公共产品的过程中完成了自身公共性的建构。而这种由“自在”走向“自为”的建构所带来的公共性增长又同时促进了其组织的成长，即在组织架构上从“校友的校友会”“大学的校友会”走向“社会的校友会”，在组织功能上从“联谊”“互谊”走向“公益”。案例表明校友组织在提供社会公共产品方面具有其他社会组织所没有的潜力和优势，为此应重新审视大学校友会的作用，那就是它们不仅是高校在拓展社会影响力、传承大学文化、筹集办学资金等方面的重要组织力量，也能成为政府应急管理体系中可以倚重的合作伙伴，成为国家治理体系和治理能力现代化进程中的重要组成部分。

For quite a few years, alumni organizations have become objects of restricted development due to fear of being involved in “Bangquan Culture”, and their functions are mostly limited to personal friendship and raising funds for HETs. Looking at the emergency rescue action case of Wuhan University alumni organization during COVID-19 in 2020, it can be found that the alumni organization could adjust its action demands timely in response to the changes in social demand under the determined role. Alumni organization used the “alumni identity” as the credit basis required of a large-scale alumni call, and could quickly make a response and take coordinate actions driven by some alumni leaders so as to complete the public construction in the process of producing various public products. The public growth of alumni organizations would promote their organization growth simultaneously, that is, the organizational structure from “alumni association of alumni”and “alumni association of university” to “alumni association of society”, the organizational function from “personal friendships” and “mutual indebtedness” to “public welfare”. The case shows that alumni organizations have giant potentials and advantages that other social organizations do not own in providing social public products. Therefore, the role of university alumni associations should be reviewed.