Recruiting and Retaining College Students at STLCC

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Recruiting and Retaining College Students at STLCC-Meramec
Introduction
The biggest challenge to colleges and universities has always remained in the recruitment and retention strategies to their students. Amidst the challenges, colleges have persisted in looking for new students to expand their population. One of such colleges confronted with the problem is STLCC-Meramec. The college needs to recruit new students, retain the students that they have, and to meet the needs of the various students in a better way. Therefore, this essay provides a suggestion to the Meramec community on the means through which students can be recruited and retained in the college.
Recruiting Students
The recruitment process needs to have a vision presented to the students. The biggest challenge with the recruitment of new students in the college is that new students are only given written notes with views of the institution but no explanation. Consequently, some students, even currently, cannot establish the understanding of the idea of the college. Therefore, the college needs to provide more explanation to the concept of the institution as they advertise for the vacancies as suggested by ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“DOI”:”10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020130902.3197″,”ISSN”:”1099839X”,”abstract”:”Based on responses from 53 institutions, this paper includes a literature review and some case studies before identi…