Recruitment & Retention

In order to have a better understanding of all of our students, we need to become more knowledgeable about men’s college experiences and the literature on the topic, says Jason Laker, dean of student affairs at Queen’s University in Ontario.

Michael A. Olivas, an authority on higher education law and immigration law and policy, fields many questions about the legal and practical implications of enrolling undocumented students. Olivas, a distinguished chair of law and director of the University of Houston’s Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance, spoke recently with Recruitment and Retention to answer some of the questions he’s asked most often.

Anecdotal accounts are not enough to help an institution market its programs to adult learners. An increasingly competitive environment requires institutions to gather and use reliable market data, says Carol Aslanian, senior vice president of EducationDynamics' Market Research Services Division. She spoke with Recruitment and Retention about the why collecting market data is so important to an institution’s effort to enroll adult students.

According to the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s 2007 Admission Trends survey, 60 percent of four-year colleges in the United States say they receive applications from undocumented students.

University of Phoenix plans new-student orientation; Guide to responding to bigotry on campus; Students with criminal backgrounds; Catching plagiarism in admissions

When prospective students and and their families pull into the parking lot outside of Meredith College's main administrative building, they see a parking spot set aside for them and marked by a personalized parking sign.

As student demographics change, so must our definition of and services for students of color, says Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington, president of the Washington Consulting Group, a multicultural organizational development firm in Maryland.