April 2005

Recruitment & Retention April 2005 full issue PDF
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Third Culture Kids: ‘Hidden Immigrants’ on Campus
American “third culture kids”—U.S.-born students who have lived most of their lives abroad because of their parents’ work—make up a generally desirable group of prospective students, from an admissions point of view.

Recruiting and Retaining TCKs
In the article “Global or Domestic Nomads or Third Culture Kids: Who Are They and What the University Needs to Know,” 2003 Colorado State University Journal of Student Affairs, Wendy Stultz offers several recommendations for recruiting and retaining "third-culture kids." Here's how you can implement these ideas on your campus.

Latino Students Choosing HBCUS
In the past few decades, there’s been a slow but steady increase in the proportion of Latino and Latina students attending historically black colleges and universities.

More White Students Choose HBCUs, Too
An increasing number of white students are choosing HBCUs for many of the same reasons Latino students are.

Don’t Let Leadership Come at Grades’ Expense
When students engage with their campus, the retention wisdom goes, they are more likely stay to graduation. So the more they participate in co-curricular activities, the better, right? Not necessarily, says the University of Iowa.

Students Give New SAT Mixed Reviews
Student reaction to the “new” SAT, first administered March 12, shows that you can’t please everyone.

30-Year Trends in Traditional-Age Enrollment
Between 1972 to 2000, while graduation rates stayed about the same, much changed in traditional-age students’ enrollment patterns, says a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Community Colleges Snare Larger Share of Traditional-Age Pool
The proportion of traditional-age students attending community colleges increased by 10 percentage points in the last decade, says a U.S. Department of Education Report.