Creating a Dynamic Partnership Between a Liberal Arts College and Local High Schools to Increase Enrollment and Retention

NAB can provide guidance and planning to:

• Design and implement a multi-year strategy to recruit promising underserved regional students who are not now considering your liberal arts college. 
• Assess the readiness of key college faculty and staff to work with high schools as genuine partners in expanding educational opportunity.
• Plan contextualized programming building on your history of working with regional high schools.
• Talk with local educators about how your college can serve a broader range of potential students through early intervention.
• Recruit your college students as “near-peer mentors” in high schools as credit-bearing internships.
• Coordinate initial “pop-up sessions” and longer term “curiosity courses” to engage high school students in college-type conversations.