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October 2004
| Full October 2004 issue of Recruitment & Retention in Higher Education in PDF format … |
| Arizona Pilots GPS Campus Tour This fall Arizona State University will pilot a first-of-its-kind, technology-enabled, self-guided walking tour for prospective students and families. |
| Congress Approves Campus Suicide Prevention Funding Congress has passed a youth suicide prevention bill that includes a competitive grant program for improving campus mental health services. |
| Do Bowl Wins Mean Better Students? Not Really, Economist Says It’s not unusual to run across an anecdote about how one school’s bowl victory or Final Four win was followed by a spike in applications or alumni donations. In one of the more well-known stories, Boston College’s 1984 Orange Bowl victory led to a 30-percent increase in applications over the next two years. But does that mean that investing in a winning athletic program is a cost-effective way to improve the academic profile of your next freshman class? |
| Q&A With Robert Frank Recruitment and Retention recently spoke with Robert Frank, author of the Knight Foundation report “Challenging the Myth,” about why he wrote the report and what smaller campuses might learn from its findings on big-time college athletics. |
| Campus Drug Court Program Still Going Strong The campus drug court system was piloted at Colorado State University in fall 2001 and instituted in January 2002. Since then, the numbers indicate that the program is successful. |
| Class of 2009 Begins Earlier Than Early What’s earlier than early decision? Immediate decision. |
| Follow-up Entrepreneurship Programs |
| Newswire Pets as Roommates; College Affordability Initiative; Scholarship Scam Website |
| Resources First-Year Students of Color; Student Mental Health and Conduct; Leadership Educators’ Institute; Academic Advising and Student Retention; Upcoming Conferences; Diversity Recruitment Directory; HBCU Data Report |
