Recruiting Student Veterans
Recruiting Student Veterans
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Strategies that have been successful with traditional age students may not successfully reach service members and veterans who may be looking to further their education. Consider the following to help your institution recruit veterans.
Our admissions website is one of the primary ways that we start communicating with potential students. Making sure that your site has veterans specific information placed prominently above the fold on the admissions home page. We'll signal that your institution is welcoming of veterans and service members. This should include information about admissions, financial aid, veteran educational benefits, and campus life.
Including service members and veterans in your social media recruitment plan, is another essential tool for reaching potential applicants. Determine where veterans might be likely to see postings by your institution and tailor the message to that population. If you have veterans in your campus community as students, alumni, faculty, or staff, tap into their knowledge and experience to identify how to most effectively target your communications.
Partnering with local, regional, and/or National Veterans Service Organizations, VSOs, can also open up ways to reach service members and veterans. Many such organizations are keenly interested in helping to facilitate the admission process for service members and veterans.
Some organizations service to school the Warrior-Scholar Project and The Posse Foundation Veteran Program, for example, actively assist veterans in transitioning to higher education. Make sure that your admissions staff has a good understanding of the VSO landscape to best choose the partnerships that will be most effective for your institution.
Many service members and veterans will take some courses at a community college as a first step in their higher education journey. If you are a four-year institution creating and publicizing partnerships with local community colleges can tap into the student veteran population in your community. Such partnerships can be especially effective if there are clear paths for applying to transfer and how academic credit will transfer.
Our admissions website is one of the primary ways that we start communicating with potential students. Making sure that your site has veterans specific information placed prominently above the fold on the admissions home page. We'll signal that your institution is welcoming of veterans and service members. This should include information about admissions, financial aid, veteran educational benefits, and campus life.
Including service members and veterans in your social media recruitment plan, is another essential tool for reaching potential applicants. Determine where veterans might be likely to see postings by your institution and tailor the message to that population. If you have veterans in your campus community as students, alumni, faculty, or staff, tap into their knowledge and experience to identify how to most effectively target your communications.
Partnering with local, regional, and/or National Veterans Service Organizations, VSOs, can also open up ways to reach service members and veterans. Many such organizations are keenly interested in helping to facilitate the admission process for service members and veterans.
Some organizations service to school the Warrior-Scholar Project and The Posse Foundation Veteran Program, for example, actively assist veterans in transitioning to higher education. Make sure that your admissions staff has a good understanding of the VSO landscape to best choose the partnerships that will be most effective for your institution.
Many service members and veterans will take some courses at a community college as a first step in their higher education journey. If you are a four-year institution creating and publicizing partnerships with local community colleges can tap into the student veteran population in your community. Such partnerships can be especially effective if there are clear paths for applying to transfer and how academic credit will transfer.