tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post774822889613817258..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: SalesBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-59161551211267840812009-09-07T17:24:59.427-07:002009-09-07T17:24:59.427-07:00Ooo, that's an interesting set of thoughts. I...Ooo, that's an interesting set of thoughts. I wonder if it's also a factor that they're all assuming they'll get *some* kind of college education, which is usually grounded in the liberal arts. So they're thinking of that as a given, and they're responding to your question in terms of why they chose NWU rather than why they chose college at all. Same could go for their sense of wanting to be challenged... I definitely wanted a liberal arts education and a challenge (though I chose a big state university system), but as a student I don't think I would have articulated either of those desires. "Education" just meant "liberal arts" to me, and I thought of college as the kind of place where you found your own challenges. Had you asked me those questions as a freshman, I probably would have answered that the main factors were low tuition, and that it was close enough to be familiar but far enough to let me be independent. But I really was into the liberal-arts idea at heart.Pilgrim/Heretichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588407758172717893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-59483604234601062172009-09-07T15:21:01.646-07:002009-09-07T15:21:01.646-07:00I suspect your student body is a lot like ours, an...I suspect your student body is a lot like ours, and I've often wondered what would happen if Misnomer U. played up the "you should come here if you're a serious student looking for dedicated professors and an academically challenging environment" angle in its recruitment materials. (Sadly, using the phrase "liberal arts" is a losing proposition, as we're in a part of the country where many of the prospective students think "liberal" is a synonym for "crazy.") Instead, to the extent that we have a recruitment strategy at all, it seems to involve making the place look approachable and non-scary, and I'm not sure that's the right way to go.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.com