COMMITTEE:  Admissions & Recruitment

MEETING DATE: March 5, 2001

PERSON PRESIDING: John Cope

REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Cope, Duffy, 
Tovey, Walsh.

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Connelly 
(for Sessoms), McDiarmid, Morrison, Muller.

OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE:  None

ACTIONS OF THE MEETING:
Description of action: 
The minutes of the February 5, 2001 meeting 
were approved. 

Description of action:
Cope agreed to follow up with Clint Bailey 
(the new Marketing Director in the 
Chancellor's office) and ask him to speak at 
the next committee meeting on strategies 
regarding marketing and promotion ECU west 
of I-95. 

Description of action:
The committee agreed to put ideas together 
for recruiting students - especially in 
eastern North Carolina - and forward these 
ideas up the chain of command of the 
university.  Ideas included:  discussion on 
what needs to be done to recruit local 
students; bringing in ATP students early 
(before August); offering scholarship 
opportunities for under privileged students; 
offering Honors Seminars for outstanding 
high school students (during the summer in 
between their junior and Senior years) to 
promote undergraduate offerings for them at 
ECU; looking into the UNC inclusive design 
for admissions (whereby all high schools who 
have students apply for admission are 
represented); how we should consider a rigid 
inclusion design for admission for eastern 
North Carolina students; how community 
colleges can help attract students here; and 
finally, the committee recognized an 
opportunity lost with the Regional High 
School Basketball playoffs last week.  With 
over 12,000 in attendance, it was an 
excellent chance to display admissions 
information to our region.

NEXT MEETING:  April 2, 2001, in Rawl Annex, #142.