1. “WELCOME TO EASTERN KENTUCKY
UNIVERSITY, I’LL BE YOUR GUIDE
TODAY”
A COMPARISON OF GENERAL ADMISSIONS
RECRUITMENT AND HONORS PROGRAM
RECRUITMENT
By Jessa Hay
Mentor Katie Patton

2. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS (ARA)
• Daily tour guides
• 2-3 tours per day
• Taken all over campus
• Do group tours
• Student representatives to
prospective honors students, EKU
Honors alumni, and the EKU
community
• Share experiences being an EKU
Honors student
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT AMBASSADORS
VS. HONORS AMBASSADORS

3. SIMILARITIES IN TASKS
• Talk to potential students and their parents
• Work Spotlight Days
• Run Student Panels
• Share a love for EKU
• Give tours around campus
• Slight differences in where students are taken

4. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS
• Focus on general public
• Paid position
• Work daily
• 20-30 people involved
• Volunteer opportunity
• 10 people involved
• Strictly Honors students
• Work few events here and there
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
DIFFERENCES IN TASKS

5. WHO’S INVOLVED
• Greek Life
• Tutors
• Student Leaders
• Honors Students
• Department Organizations
• Upperclassmen
• Usually involved in at least one other campus activity/group

6. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS
• Getting to meet new people and
become friends with my coworkers
• Seeing the appreciation from students
and parents
• Getting to talk about the school we
love
• Seeing the variety of students
interested in EKU
• Getting to work with incoming
students who are interested about
Honors
• Hearing perspective students’ stories
• Helping students figure out
everything about Honors
• Talking to parents and students about
Honors
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
LIKES ABOUT THE POSITION

7. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS
• Disconnect in communication
between supervisors and student
workers
• Getting “that family” on tours
• Working with middle schoolers and
some high schoolers on group tours
• Talking to some of the parents
• Not having a lot of opportunities to
speak about Honors
• Irregularity of events
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
DISLIKES ABOUT THE POSITION

8. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS
• Better training in the beginning
• Better communication overall
• More outreach/ emailing students
• Visiting more high schools
• More events overall
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
CHANGES THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE

9. IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT LEADERSHIP
ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
• Positively associated with leadership capacity and efficacy
• Service experiences offer vehicle for powerful learning related to
leadership development
• Increase leadership knowledge, skills and values
• Service learning positively influence leadership skills, importance of
helping career, occupational identity processing, and social involvement
• Positive impact on development of career-related skills
• Enhance perception of how well college has prepared them for their
future
O'Dell, Kyle, PhD. "Why Lead?" Student Leadership. John Carroll University, n.d. Web. 08 Jan.
2017.