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January 17, 2005 SNC and UWGB program helps minority students with college The schools combine to increase access, exposure By Heather Chrudimsky The Red Carpet Tour is a joint effort by St. Norbert College and the
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay that helps create solutions to that
problem.
The tour is meant to increase the access and exposure of institutions
of higher education for minority students in Brown County.
Justin Willis, the associate director of cultural diversity and involvement
and organizer of the Red Carpet Tour for St. Norbert College, said the
tour is important because the number of minority students continues to
grow.
Ronald Morris, program manager for multicultural recruitment at UWGB,
said the tours are designed to increase minority enrollment. Morris handles
student recruitment for UWGB, primarily minority students, and said the
Red Carpet Tour is important in helping recruit minority students to higher
education institutions.
"With high school counselors already overworked," Willis said, "I feel
like it is our responsibility to put programs like this in motion to help
give minority students the information and resources needed for higher
education."
"The Red Carpet Tour is a rather simple and inexpensive harvesting strategy,"
Morris said. "Our aim is to improve access to our higher education facilities
through encouragement."
Brown County high school minority juniors and seniors with at least
a 2.5 grade point average qualify for the tour. There are approximately
23 students from each school participating in the tour. The selection
of student participants is left up to a representative of the high school.
"With an increasing number of minority students in the area, myself
and other (faculty) at St. Norbert College felt we should be doing something
in the area and make an attempt to keep them here as they move on to the
next level," Willis said.
Willis said this was not a focus in the past.
Willis said the collaborating of the two schools is a perfect match
for a couple of reasons. "The idea of collaborating makes it attractive
because we are two totally different institutions so we feel like we have
different things to offer students, and at the same time not be in competition
with each other," Willis said. "This is also very cost-effective, which
will enable us to do this more frequently, versus having events like this
by ourselves."
When the students arrive at St. Norbert College or UWGB, they will participate
in information sessions on topics such as financial aid and admissions.
Students will take a tour of the respective campus and gather for a question-and-answer
session with a minority student panel. Students will then travel to the
other school to partake in the same programs.
There will be two Red Carpet Tours in the next couple of months. On
Feb. 2, students from Green Bay East and Preble High Schools will start
their day out at St. Norbert and end the day at UWGB before returning
to their school.
On March 2, students from Green Bay Southwest and West High Schools
will partake on the tour, starting at UWGB in the morning and going to
St. Norbert in the afternoon.
"Students meet college students, tour our campuses and learn more about
what it takes to gain entry into our universities," Morris said.
The goal is to have the Red Carpet Tour on a semester basis.
"Although the ultimate benefit is complicated, our strategy to achieve
the goal is rather simple," Morris said.
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