Indicates that colleges who welcome a more diverse student body often have increasing enrollments and decreasing graduation rates. Suggests the importance of understanding a student's aspirations and expectations and of supporting a set of ideas and values that will help in the pursuit of college studies. (JOW)

Discusses student recruitment in aviation education and establishes that internal recruitment methods are the most productive and cost effective. Provides examples of recruitment strategies based on a model of action research. (JOW)

Analyzes the rhetorical arguments of admission viewbooks to consider the brochures' effectiveness as communication vehicles. Offers advice to higher education institutions about the production, use, and student reaction to viewbooks. (Author/MKA)

Outlines a marketing plan for recruiting students into pharmacy school-based graduate programs, particularly into social and administrative sciences. Addresses challenges and opportunities when recruiting, the need to clearly define the "product" that graduate programs are trying to sell to potential students, types of students…

Discusses the increasing recruitment by college coaches of foreign athletes. Explores whether Americans are losing valuable scholarship and training opportunities to foreign students. (EV)

Explores the reaction of other institutions to Princeton's announcement that incoming freshman will receive grants rather than loans. Discusses the policy's implications for recruitment of the most talented students and available aid for low-income students. (EV)

Presents a proposal for a panel discussion that intended to increase the coordination and understanding among the many and varied information science undergraduate programs. Topics to be discussed included the possible role of ASIS (American Society for Information Science) in identifying a common model curriculum and opportunities for student…

Describes how more regional public institutions are opening honors colleges to raise their profiles and attract better students. (EV)

Illustrates how college and university student centers are becoming the institution's marketing tools. Explores how the Millennium Center at the University of Missouri in St. Louis exemplifies this new trend. (GR)

Higher educational institutions face fundamental challenges as they adapt to increasingly competitive markets. This literature review provides a context on markets, failure, and turnarounds, and discusses the literature on the shift of the higher educational industry into competitive markets. The literature on turnarounds in the corporate…

Education can develop intellectual capability in people, which may in turn lead toward development of a more humane society. Open and distance learning (ODL) has provided one means of achieving social objectives democratically. In India significant success has been achieved through a network of 10 open universities and 104 institutes of open and…

The purpose of this literature review is to illustrate the importance of initiating nursing recruitment during the middle school years. Data sources included citations from the years 1989 to 2006. The study focused on middle school students 9 to 13 years of age in Grades 6 to 8. One survey compared middle school students' perceptions of an ideal…

Background: Recruitment into psychiatry is correlated with the quality of undergraduate medical school teaching programmes and with a commitment of major resources to teaching students. There is an extensive literature related to attitudes towards psychiatry but less on the learning and teaching of psychiatry. Aims: To identify the current issues…

A herd of camels meanders through the 115-degree heat as sand billows across the abandoned stretch of desert that once was to be a branch campus of George Mason University. Nearby, alongside the road that leads into the tall sand dunes is a sign that reads: "REDUCE SPEED: MOVING SANDS AHEAD." The sign is intended for motorists, of…

As most educators know, Catholic schools work and have worked for a long time. Sociologist James Coleman and colleagues Thomas Hoffer and Sally Kilgore, in 1982, were among the first to document Catholic schools' academic successes, in "High School Achievement: Public and Private Schools." A variety of studies since, by scholars at the University…