Interim Director: Jan Taniguchi Staff Directory

Queen Lili`uokalani Center for Student Services Rm. 214 Phone: 956-2545 FAX: 956-8095 Email: jant@hawaii.edu

Group and individual visits to the UHM campus. These visits provide admission, financial aid, and housing information, and meetings with academic faculty and staff. "Student Ambassadors" assist with these visits and provide the peer view of the college experience. Visits by mainland prospective students and their families have sharply increased in the last year or so.

UH Rainbow Night/Rainbow Days/Showcase Nights. These events for prospective students and their families are held at local high schools (including neighbor island) or on the UHM campus, and provide information needed for making a college choice.

Student Services/Academic Advisor team visits to high schools.

Professional workshops held annually for public and private high school counselors from Oahu and the neighbor islands biennually for community college counselors and high school principals.

Prospect targeting through ordering of PSAT/SAT lists from the College Board.

Coordination and collaborative planning of above activities through the Manoa Recruitment Forum, a group of concerned recruitment representatives from colleges, academic departments, and student services programs.

National Student Exchange, a 170-university consortium, allows students at its member institutions to spend a semester or academic year at one of the other institutions at the cost of resident tuition, and enables coursework to be transferred back as part of their home school degree. This is an especially important opportunity for Hawaii students and is an important part of SCS recruitment efforts. UHM is one of the top sending schools in the program, with 120-140 students going out each year.

The attraction of UHM for incoming mainland students breaks all records in the consortium, and results in more students (almost 10%) choosing UHM than all students exchanging anywhere in the consortium. 403 students chose UHM in Fall 2000 (almost 3 times the number choosing the #2 school, Umass Amherst), and 350 for Fall 2001 (some were denied due to lack of housing). The diversity includes 20-30% non-Caucasian, including considerable African American and Hispanic students.

The majority of participants are highly satisfied with their exchange experience. NSE represents one of the most effective means of promoting UHM on the mainland.