Category: Recruitment
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Top 10 Colleges for Ambitious Students
Via the Huffington Post. From the Huffington Post: Top 10 Colleges for Ambitious Students Sent from my iPad Posted via email from nextSTEPH’s posterous
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Want to attract star students? Help them find a purpose.
A valedictorian recently gave a speech at her graduation. Instead of it being a day of accomplishment, it became a day of dissension. If prospective students feel this way about education, how does higher education expect these students to move on to higher education?
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College, Inc on PBS
This past week has been a pretty busy week in the world of Higher Education. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/js/pap/embed.js?frol02c3f0cqe99 College, Inc. aired on PBS on May 4th. What do you think the future holds for colleges? When you have the chance view the view and let us know what you think.
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Students Using Video as Part of Application Process
A while ago, I wrote a post about how colleges are using videos for recruitment. Some students are responding by submitting videos as part of their college applications. Read more about Students Using Youtube To Impress Colleges.
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The Question of a College Degree
Before we start: I would like to reference my Disclosure Policy. This is solely my opinion and no one else’s. 🙂 Today, some may think that college is becoming more of an option than a requirement. In today’s environment when its a challenge for people with *multiple* degrees to gain employment, people are questioning if…
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Ivy League College steps up the game for video in admissions
Unless you haven’t seen the news lately, Yale’s admissions video, That’s Why I Chose Yale had hit the mainstream. Most of us in Higher Ed have been growing aware of the use of video and how it aids in the admissions process. We all have been diligently adding videos to our websites, blogs, twitter and…
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12 Favorite Tweets from EduWeb 2009
This is the second year that I’ve attended the EduWeb Conference. This year, there were more sessions that I wish I could of attended but couldn’t because some of them happened at the same time. Fortunately, thanks to to the resources of Twitter, I was able to view what was going on, even though I…
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How many college profiles is too many?
All the talk about online reputation management lately has me thinking. For a while, I have been using Google Alerts to monitor what’s being said about my clients, including the schools that I work with. Its just that with the hundreds if not thousands of college profiles sites out there, its tough for an online…