January 2005

Full January 2005 issue of Recruitment & Retention in Higher Education in PDF format
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IM in Recruitment Has Yet to Hit Its Stride
Despite the popularity of instant messaging among youths and young adults, it hasn’t quite hit its stride in student recruitment and college selection.

Recovery Houses Help Students With Addictions Stay in School
Your campus might be good at identifying students at risk for addiction and at helping them find treatment. But what does your campus do for them if they’ve completed an off-campus treatment program and are ready to come back to school?

Higher Education Split on Need for New Enrollment Tracking
A proposal by the federal government to change how it collects college enrollment data has won support from public colleges and universities, but not from private institutions. The key areas of disagreement are whether the new system would yield more accurate data and whether it has the potential to become a student privacy nightmare.

Rumblings of Affirmative Action Battles to Come
To no one’s surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 Gratz and Grutter decisions haven’t really settled questions about affirmative action’s future and what constitutes legal admissions policy. However, the nature of the fight has evolved.

Newswire
Women Sue to Stall Male Enrollment; Super-Early MBA Recruiting; Community College Support Earns Mixed Reviews; Employers Offer Admission Counseling as Benefit

U.S. Sends More Students Out, Welcomes Fewer In
At a time when U.S. institutions are enrolling fewer students from overseas comes the news that a record number of American students went abroad in 2002-2003, the first full academic year after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.