Fall 2006 Diverse Student Recruitment Plan

Fall 2006 Diverse Student Recruitment Plan

Recruit at 85 high schools with significant diverse populations,specifically Asian, Hispanic, and African-Americans throughout New Jersey,RocklandCounty, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Manhattan (see list below).

Attend college fairs, college nights, and individual visits at high schoolsand community colleges.

Organize bus trips to Ramapo for students and their guidance counselors.

1)Operation Link-Up, Paterson and Englewood

2)Rosa Parks Performing ArtsHigh School, Paterson

3)John F. Kennedy High School, Paterson

4)Malcolm X Shabazz, Newark

5)Frank H. Morrell High School, Irvington

6)PassaicHigh School

7)BrimmMedicalArtsHigh School, Camden

8)DwightMorrowHigh School, Englewood

9)Paterson Innovative Academies

10)New BrunswickHigh School

11)Create CharterHigh School, Newark

12)East OrangeCampusHigh School

Conduct on-site admissions programs at interested high schools.

1)BrimmMedicalArtsHigh School, Camden

2)Paterson Pre-Collegiate TeachingAcademy

3)Create CharterHigh School, Newark

4)DickinsonHigh School, Jersey City

5)DwightMorrowHigh School, Englewood

6)East OrangeCampusHigh School

7)Eastside, Paterson

8)Frank H. Morrell High School, Irvington

9)GarretMorganAcademy for Transportation and Technology

10)Health and Related ProfessionsAcademy, Paterson

11)InternationalHigh School, Paterson

12)John F. Kennedy High School, Paterson

13)LincolnHigh School, Jersey City

14)MetroPatersonAcademy for Communications and Technology

15)North BergenHigh School

16)OrangeHigh School

17)PassaicHigh School

18)PassaicCountyTechnicalHigh School

19)Rosa Parks Performing ArtsHigh School, Paterson

20)James J. Ferris High School, Jersey City

21)Malcolm X Shabazz High School, Newark

22)PantherAcademy, Paterson

23)SilkCity, Paterson

Work with groups that mentor diverse students to encourage enrollment atRamapo.

1) Operation Link-Up, Paterson and Englewood

Provide on-campus workshops on the college application process, financialaid, and theRamapo Educational Opportunity Fund Program. We hope toprovide Service LearningStudents from Ramapo to work with OperationLink-Up in three high schools. These students will serve as role modelsand mentors. Also, support Operation Link-Up fund-raisers at their annualawards dinner. Offer special admission consideration for Operation Link-Upstudents.

2)Global Kids, New York City

Provide transportation for Global Kids to visit Ramapo from New York City. Host on-campus workshops on the college application process, financial aid,and the Ramapo experience. Work closely with Global Kids staff to ensureenrollment and financial support for their students.

3)Ramapo Upward Bound, Passaic, Bergen, and EssexCounties

Ramapo summer residential program designed to prepare financiallydisadvantaged students for college by providing academic reinforcement andSAT prep skills. Enrollment Management offers financial aid and admissionsworkshops for students and parents. In addition, on-site admissionsprograms are offered on select Saturdays throughout the academic year.

4)College Preparatory Incentive Program, Jersey City and Plainfield

The CPIP have approximately 600 students in the program of which two-thirdsare low income, first generation college students. This program provideseducational counseling and support including tutorials, SAT preparation,college visitations, and college fairs for families of the students,assistance with college applications, and financial aid form preparation.

5)First Baptist Community Development Corporation, Somerset

This is a new initiative started this past October. A group ofwell-prepared, African American students visit campus to see what Ramapooffers. These students generally are recruited by the Ivy League andsecond tier prestigious schools.

6) The InternationalHigh School on-site admissions will be followed by aninvitationfor accepted students to participate in Ramapo’s International FoodFestival.

Attend special diverse recruitment fairs sponsored by urban areaorganizations.

1)NationalHispanicCollege Fairs, Burlington and EssexCounties

2)SERO/NSSFNS Fairs-Student/College Interview Sessions, Newark and New

Brunswick

3)New BrunswickTeenCenter

4)The Association of College Bound Programs (Newark)

5)African Methodist Episcopal ZionChurchCollege Fair (Neptune, NJ)

6)Additionally, students have selected to exchange at historically blackand predominantly Hispanic campuses through Ramapo’s National StudentExchange. This is a real boost for student retention.

The admissions office partners with Embark.com, a leading Internet site forcollege bound students. Through the outreach component of Embark, Admissions targets prospective diverse students and interact with them overthe web. This enables Admissions to use another avenue in addition todirect mail. Also, Ramapo will be targeting diverse students utilizingNRCUA (NationalResearchCenter for College and University Admission) byusing their database for direct mail.

This year, Ramapo is participating in a series of on-line chats that allowstudents a chance to “visit” Ramapo in an on-line setting. This benefitsall students, especially those without the transportation to visit theCollege

Finally, the director of admissions has purchased the list of names ofAfrican-American males in New Jersey who took the SAT. We will direct mailto them very soon, offering a visit to our campus.

The following represents the 85 high schools with significant diversepopulations that admissions counselors have visited or will this year:

Academy of St. Aloysius, Jersey City

AcademicHigh School, Jersey City

ArtsHigh School, Newark

Asbury ParkHigh School

Atlantic CityHigh School

BarringerHigh School, Newark

BenedictineAcademy, Newark

BloomfieldHigh School

BrimmMedicalArtsHigh School, Camden

CamdenHigh School

CentralHigh School, Newark

ClaraBartonHigh School, Brooklyn

Create CharterHigh School, Newark

CresskillHigh School

CurtisHigh School, Staten Island

DickinsonHigh School

DwightMorrowHigh School, Englewood

EastsideHigh School, Newark

EastsideHigh School, Paterson

ElizabethHigh School

EmersonHigh School, Union City

EssexCountyVo-Tech, Bloomfield

EssexCountyVo-Tech, Newark

ElizabethHigh School

EmersonHigh School, Union City

FerrisHigh School, Jersey City

FortHamiltonHigh School, Brooklyn

Fort LeeHigh School

FrankH.MorrellHigh School, Irvington

HackensackHigh School

HarrisonHigh School

HenrySnyderHigh School, Jersey City

HighTechHigh School, North Bergen

HillsideHigh School

HobokenHigh School

HudsonCountyVo-Tech, North Bergen

Jacqueline Kennedy High School, New York City

JFKHigh School, Paterson

LakewoodHigh School

LincolnHigh School, Jersey City

Long BranchHigh School

MalcolmXShabazzHigh School, Newark

MarcusGarveyRedirectionHigh School, Newark

MaristHigh School, Bayonne

Mary Lawn of the Oranges, South Orange

Mary Help of Christians, North Haledon

MemorialHigh School, West New York

MontclairHigh School

MotherSetonHigh School, Clark

NeptuneHigh School

North BergenHigh School

Northern ValleyHigh School, Old Tappan

Northern ValleyHigh School, Demarest

NorthRocklandHigh School

OrangeHigh School

Our Lady of Good Counsel, Newark

PalisadesParkHigh School

PassaicHigh School

PassaicCountyVo-Tech, Wayne

PatersonCatholicHigh School, Paterson

PlainfieldHigh School

RosaParksHigh School, Paterson

RoselleCatholicHigh School

ScienceHigh School, Newark

Spring ValleyHigh School

St. Aloysius High School, Jersey City

St. Anthony’s High School, Jersey City

St. Benedict’s Prep, Newark

St. Dominic’s High School, Jersey City

St. Mary’s High School, Jersey City

St. Mary’s of the Assumption, Elizabeth

St. Patrick’s High School, Elizabeth

St. VincentAcademyHigh School, Newark

TeaneckHigh School

TenaflyHigh School

ThomasJeffersonHigh School, Brooklyn

TrentonCentralHigh School

UnionCatholicHigh School, Scotch Plains

UnionHillHigh School, Union City

UniversityHigh School, Newark

WeehawkenHigh School

WeequahicHigh School, Newark

West SideHigh School, Newark

WillingboroHigh School

WoodrowWilsonHigh School, Camden