Admission Officials look to Recruit new Adult Students

Competition for recruiting adult students has increased as more adults are returning to four year colleges.

Admission officials are looking for tips to increase adult numbers into undergraduate classes.

In a seminar sponsored by the National Association of College Admission Counseling, Brenda K. Harms, a client consultant with a higher-education marketing company in Iowa, offered tips admission offices could use to help increase enrollment among adults.

Harms told admission officials to think more creatively and use tips such as asking current students to invite a friend to class, spend time in the community making connections with businesses and temporary employment agencies, contact every adult who has applied with in the last year, and offering resume-writing workshops for adult students and one guest.

For more more tips on what admission can take "right not" visit the Chronicle of Higher Education web site.