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School aims for increased Admissions works to continue Hispanic enrollment campus diversity goals BY JOEY RETTINO Managing Editor
fessionally translated into Spanish,” Cameron, who admits the changes are in their “nascent phase,” said. “After the site launches, The college is slated to have Hispanic en- we will then begin systematically translating the rest of the site.” rollment up by 25% by the year 2020. A large compliment to Taylor’s goal is a “In order to compete and to recruit students, you have to be where the numbers partnership between Cabrini and the Naare,” Dr. Donald Taylor, president of Cabrini tional Hispanic Institute. Last July the school hosted 125 rising juniors and seniors from speaking about Hispanic students, said. high schools across the According to Pew United States, Mexico, Research Center, 69% Panama, Puerto Rico of Hispanic high school and the Dominican graduates in the class of Republic for the Na2012 enrolled in college tional Hispanic Instithat fall, while only 67% tute Collegiate World of their white counterSeries. parts did the same. Aside from much of In preparation for the future enrollment the tentative change in attempts for Cabrini diversity on campus, being directed towards the school has begun Norristown schools creating a Spanish verand Esperanza Acadsion of the website, -DR. DON TAYLOR emy in Philadelphia, hiring multicultural recruiters and establishing learning commu- outreach also has been directed at schools nities that can help segue Hispanic students that have guidance counselors and principles who are alumni of NHI. to the campus. Cabrini’s sorority, Delta Xi Phi, which is Celia Cameron, vice president of marketing and communications for Cabrini, is a multicultural sorority, is also very excited heading the attempt to make the website about Taylor’s announced plans. bilingual. “We just started the project, so the timeline is not set yet. Part of the new project includes building a parent’s section of the CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 4 website, which will be the first section pro-
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IN ORDER TO COMPETE AND TO RECRUIT STUDENTS,YOU HAVE TO BE WHERE THE NUMBERS ARE.
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BY SAM JACOBS AND ABBIE KEEFE Asst. Multimedia Editor and Asst. News Editor The admissions office is moving ahead with new enrollment goals. Every year admissions is faced with the task of bringing new students to campus and in recent years diversity has become a major part of the plan, according to the executive director of admissions. “I think that anyone in higher education knows that if you’re not willing to think outside where you are currently in your little enrollment box, you’re not going to succeed,” Shannon Zottola said. Recently President Taylor has stated that he aims to increase Spanish enrollment specifically to reflect the ethnicity’s growth of the population throughout the United States. Shelly Goff, a 2014 Cabrini alumna who studied English agrees with President Taylor’s newly announced project. “I think that as a social justice college, which aims to integrate many ethnicities and cultures, Cabrini will benefit from a heightened enrollment of Latino students,” Goff said. “To have more students of Hispanic ethnicity would add more of this background to the English, communications and fine arts classes on campus, while also improving many other classes in the sciences.” This plan goes hand-in-hand with
goals that admissions had already planned, as well. “It’s really looking at what areas are growing in the United States and outside of the United States in terms of bringing students to this area for higher education, particularly students who are a best fit for Cabrini and really stretching out our recruitment efforts,” Zottola said. Although Cabrini has traditionally recruited to north up to Connecticut and south to Virginia, particular demographics have been targeted in the past similar to the way that Spanish populations are of interest now. The transfers, military, commuter and international markets have all been targeted before. According to Zottola, the number of diverse students on campus has doubled since 2008 and this new movement is only another step in the process. “We’ve had to think about how we’re going to get there,” Zottola said. “We have two individuals in the office and the primary job for one is to create partnerships to start to build pathways to enrollment for Hispanic students and the other is recruiter who’s going out into schools and talking to students and families about Cabrini.”
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