Abstract
 Challenges in Student Recruitment for Educational Institutions: Materials and Methods Track: Education Author(s): Yasser Ayad Successful student recruitment efforts lead to higher enrollment in various programs. This helps the higher education institutions to sustain their resources and maintain high level of educational services throughout its wide variety of academic programs. This study proposes a method that involves the application of GIS in: first, better understanding the available body of student and school district data by means of inter-relating important variables such as the median household income and driving distances, and second, tracing recommendations for future recruitment efforts based on the observations and analysis results. Yasser Ayad Clarion University of Pennsylvania AGES 335 Peirce Science Center Clarion , PA 16214 US Phone: 814-393-2990 Fax: 814-393-2004 E-mail: yayad@clarion.edu |
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