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September 2005

Recruitment & Retention - September 2005 - Full Issue
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Tailor Your Parent Program to Fit Your Campus Culture
The question isn't whether your campus should engage parents; the question is how. The answer lies in your institution's mission and the population it serves.

Avoid Sending Parents Mixed Messages
It won't go over well if you treat parents with great care and attention during the admissions process and then cut them off once their student registers for classes.

What’s Next in Parent Relations?
The director of parent programs at a large research university predicts that five trends will influence parent relations in the next few years.

Automated Admissions Make the Most of Resources
The student-centered e-marketing system at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is an automated admissions system that provides a sophisticated introduction for the university’s prospective students. It also helps ease an admissions staff crunch.

Sophomores: Invisible Students, Real Needs
Sophomores have needs different from other students’, and these needs go largely unfulfilled, according to new a study by two Ball State University researchers.

Roadblocks to International Student Success
Although there is no single reason why some international students do not persist at U.S. institutions, most of the roadblocks fall into one of six general categories.

Newswire
Knox Joins Colleges Dropping Test Score Requirement; The Cost of Losing Black Students; Canadians Overestimate College Costs Too; NCAA Amends Academic Success Policies; Proposed Law Could Hurt UK’s International Recruitment

Resources
Laptops Help Recruit and Retain Students, Paper Says; For-Profits Capture Larger Market Share; Creating Learning-Centered Community Colleges; Report on First-Generation Students; Competing in Higher Education-West; Minority College Participation Conference; Ten Findings on High School Juniors’ Web Use