The Local Angle: SCAD adapts recruitment strategies for …, 11 January 2008, SCAD Chronicle, Savannah, Georgia

Obviously, SCAD [Savannah College of Art and Design] is interested in recruiting high-school-age homeschooled students who want to study the arts, online via SCAD-eLearning or at SCAD-Atlanta or SCAD-Savannah. But the college also is interested in homeschooled students who want to earn college credit through dual enrollment in distance learning courses. Interestingly, because of their academic excellence, homeschoolers have received some of the college’s largest scholarships.

That’s very interesting, and flattering. Thank you. I’m baffled by the first line of the article, though.

Approximately 2 million students are homeschooled in the United States. According to a recent report in The Chronicle of Higher Education, home-schooled students are applying to college by the thousands, compelling admission officers to devise new policies to recruit these students.

So they’re showing up spontaneously, but admissions officers are compelled to figure out how to recruit them? That’s simple — open the door.

The other question is why were only religiously-affiliated magazines mentioned in the article?

Among other recruitment methods, colleges are attending state homeschool conventions and making specialized presentations, developing college preparatory programs targeted at homeschoolers, conducting workshops for homeschoolers and their parents to help them plan for college admission, offering special scholarships and grants, and advertising in brochures and homeschool publications such as Teaching Home, Practical Homeschooling, Homeschooling Today and The Old Schoolhouse.

Perhaps the college needs to open that door a little bit wider.

posted by Valerie

Tags: home education, homeschool college admissions, homeschooling

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