This semester I am interning at The Undergraduate Office of Admissions at Binghamton University. I focus on recruiting admitted students to attend Binghamton in the future. I write emails as well as call admitted students and their parents to answer any questions they might have. I put together plans in which we could get the highest quality students to attend Binghamton University. To learn more, follow the link below:
https://www.binghamton.edu/admissions/index.html
PRACTICUM IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (HDEV 475)
Academic Service Learning Plan
Name: Elizabeth Dower
Email: edower1@binghamton.edu
Semester: Spring 2018
Placement Site/Organization Name: Binghamton University Undergraduate Admissions
Organizational website: https://www.binghamton.edu/admissions/index.html
Site Supervisor: Melissa Lawson
Position Title: Associate Director of Admissions
Phone:607-777-4455
Email: mrussell@binghamton.edu
Academic Service Learning Goal (1):
I want to confirm that I am interested in talent acquisition and recruitment.
Learning and Service Objectives (List 12):
1. Improve upon my interpersonal and communication skills with my coworkers and potential students (and parents) of Binghamton University
2. Learn how to speak and carry myself in a more professional manner
3. Get more experience in event planning for the New Jersey Guidance Counselor Tour, Lost Dog Dinner, etc.
4. Learn how to use the CRM database at Binghamton University Office of Undergraduate Admissions, “Slate”
5. Learn more about Binghamton University’s marketing and social media and how to effectively use them to recruit students
6. Learn about the hierarchal structure and seniority in the workplace
7. See if I prefer a fast paced versus a slow paced work environment (there are elements of each at my practicum site)
8. Experience positive and professional coworker camaraderie/company culture
9. Become an overall better writer by writing letters and emails to potential students
10. Learn about different effective recruitment strategies to get students from all over the United States to attend Binghamton University
11. Improve upon my organizational skills (keeping my office cubicle neat and paperwork properly filed)
Learn how to prioritize certain work tasks over others when I first get in to the office and improve upon my time management skills
Future Professional Association:
Society for Human Resource Management (BU Student Chapter)
Action Agenda:
Schedule (Dates and times you will be engaged at your field placement site): Tuesday 9-12,
Wednesday 12-3, Thursday 12-3, in addition to some Saturday events throughout the Spring 2018 semester
Clients to be served (if applicable): Students accepted and who applied to Binghamton University
Location of workplace(s): Undergraduate Admissions Building on Binghamton University’s campus
Demographic information on the population you will be serving: In and out of state students applying to Binghamton, as well as families who come to Open House Events
Brief Description of Planned Programmatic Activities: Writing notecards and emails to accepted students, Guidance Counselor outreach, attaching recommendation letters to student files, helping overall with recruitment strategies and admissions processes, Open House Saturday’s
Name of Practicum Evaluator: Melissa Lawson