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Helping students

The role of admission should be to help student achieve their career goals through education and this should be emphasized across all school. Education is important and finding the right school and right program is a part of that process all so

Compliance

compliance is the key to staying in business

Advertising

We get a lot of clients through word of mouth

Rules and Reulations

Lots of rules to follow!!!!

On-line course

These courses help to stay current

Catalog

If you really want to know your institution, ask to help write the catalog

Is anyone completely paperless in their admission processes

What docs do you save.

TABE test

What is the acceptable passing score on the TABE test.

Moving into a career

We are assisting prospective students to make career and training decisions. That is why it is so important to know as much as possible about the jobs and workplaces for which potentials students training.

Accreditation

It is very important to stay in compliance with your institutions rules and regulations. We as admissions representatives represent the school and must follow certain guidelines and maintain regulatory standards.

What types of marketing have you used, and which worked best?

We do a combination of print, tv and radio. All work well, and the biggest results have come when the coincide with one another.

Life experience credit

Life experience credit is only applicable for us with post-professional students. Generally, for entry level graduate students there is no exceptions for the courses we require as pre-requisites. We are also very strict with our transfer credits, both incoming and outgoing (we are more limited due to our national acreditation) so it is important that this information is in the information we provide our students with.

Marketing

Although there are many different media outlets, working within your budget and maximizing the number of potential students you can reach is important. The larger the budget, obviously the more you can do. Utilizing free resources, such as email blasts can help make your efforts stretch further.

Learning about your school from the Catalog

From reading our catalog I learned many facts that I did not know previously. Building specifics may not seem important, but different rules concerning refunds definitely was something I find useful! Since I am not in the department that deals with enrollment agreements, I do not always work with those numbers on a regular basis, but I know it is still important I know them.

compliant and continouus education

the state licensing board licenses non-public postsecondary institutions. Licensing is required. Accreditation is voluntary. which was unknown to myself. Its going to be very important to continue to stay updated with the state and mandatory continous education training. In order to be state compliant.

admissions meetings

Admissions meetings tend to concentrate on how to be an 'effective" admissions rep. Main ideals are: dealing with student objections, institution tours, presenting information about your institution.

Accreditation Standards and Procedures

This module was very helpful and informative in regards to the accreditation standards and what my role and responsibilities are as an Admissions Representative. I learned that an Admissions Representative must continously train as per accreditation regulation and that it is voluntary for institutions to obtain accrediatation standards. Being accredited allows for Title 4 Funding to be available.

Resource Notebook

The resource notebook can be very helpful for people that do not work within the admissions department on a reguarl basis. Also, being able to acquire information about advertising can help provide better understanding for what the school is doing in terms of recruitment and attracting prospects.

marketing

Since our institution may use the services of many number of lead generation companies. This is helpful information for you to know. There is a variety of technology in use. Knowing where how they came about will allow u to approach they lead in a tactful fashion.

Alumni play important role

Alumni Association stay in contact with grads. Some of the benefits to grads include newsletters, invites events, job placement,etc.