Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j4VKfLG17406; Tue, 31 May 2005 16:41:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:41:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s29c77cd.032@nmail.epcc.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Tracy VonMaluski" <TracyVM@epcc.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10901] Re: Help needed recruiting students for ESL X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 Status: O Content-Length: 1276 Lines: 31 Very good strategies, but also suggest you try to find out why enrollment is down. Are students under the impression that they must be citizens or legal residents in order to attend? Do they have to be? What is the "word" out in the community regarding this? Do they have to have a Social Security # to enroll in your program, or can your program just assign them a student #? If there is perhaps wrong information out in the community, how can you get the correct information out so students will come to you? So many factors for us to deal with.... Tracy vonMaluski El Paso Comm. College >>> mhefner@cccti.edu 5/30/2005 5:25:17 PM >>> I work in the Basic Skills Department at a rural community college in North Carolina. We offer a variety of ESL classes both on and off campus, but we are having difficulty with retention of currently enrolled ESL students and are also finding that our enrollments of new ESL students are down. Our ESL population is predominantly Hispanic although we do have some Asian and Eastern European students. Can anyone share with us any retention and/or recruitment strategies that have proven especially effective? Has anyone had any success with holding open houses or family nights? Thanks for all your help. Melinda Hefner
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