Open Houses or Individual Visits: Which is the Way to go?

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Open Houses or Individual Visits Which is the
Way to go?

• A Presentation by
• Amy Stornello, Assistant Director of Admissions
  Visitation

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Introductions

• What do I do?
• Coordinate Open Houses for NTID
• Liaison to Undergraduate Admissions office for
  other Open House programs
• Coordinate individual visits for students and
  other visitors
• Only for Deaf/Hard of hearing students, hearing
  students interested in a BS in ASL/Interpreting
  Education, and Masters of Deaf Education program
• Admissions review for Winter/Spring Quarters
• Supervise one student assistant
• Teach Freshman Seminar, special projects, etc

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What do YOU Focus on?

• Name, College and position/job title?
• Do you work at a community college or
  4-year college?
• Open House or Individual Visits?
• What do YOU prefer?
• What works better?
• WHY???

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What is National Technical Institute for the
Deaf?

• One of 8 colleges at Rochester Institute of
  Technology
• 15,000 hearing students/1,200 Deaf/Hard of
  hearing students
• Associate all the way through PhD degrees

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College Profile Admissions Requirements

• http//www.rit.edu/upub/pdfs/Prospectus.pdf
• Note ACT/SAT test score ranges key tool to
  identify whether a prospective student is
  Associate or Bachelor degree bound

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Admissions Overview

• Associate degree-bound Student

• Bachelor degree-bound Student

• 669 deaf/hoh students
• Faculty who use various communication methods in
  the classroom
• May start here and eventually transfer into a BS
  degree program if English skills are strong enough

• 572 deaf/hoh students
• Has support services interpreters, notetakers,
  cprint, tutoring
• Campus community AWARE of large deaf presence so
  faculty have some knowledge on interacting with
  our students

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Comparing Visit Programs

• RIT
• http//rit.edu/
• Visitation Website http//www.rit.edu/emcs/admiss
  ions/
• NTID
• http//www.ntid.rit.edu/
• Visitation Website http//www.ntid.rit.edu/prospe
  ctive/visiting.php

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Differences in OH/IV experiences?

• Undergraduate Admissions office

• NTID Admissions Office

• Focus on ability to handle quantity of students
  not intentional but done due to amount of
  visitors to campus
• Individual Visits are done in an Information
  Session format
• Open Houses
• 4 Fall, 2 Accepted, 2 Transfer, Spring Preview Day

• Focus on quality of visit
• Able to ask how we can customize their visit
  experience
• Individual Visits
• Spring Open Houses
• 2 Spring Events

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Open House versus Individual Visits

• Open Houses

• Individual Visits

• Labor Intensive
• Orchestrating, planning, coordinating, etc
• Costs!
• Lump people together
• One set schedule of presentations to try to
  accommodate differing educational backgrounds,
  etc.

• One on one
• Tailor visits to suit their needs
• People involved know the specific background of
  each visitor
• Provide specialized attention to fit what THEY
  want to do while visiting

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Who is your audience that youre trying to
attract?

• NTID Admissions needs to take into consideration
  the following
• Communication preferences
• Speak orally? Use Sign Language?
• We pair our tour guides to communication
  preferences (sign or voice)
• Request interpreter for dorm tour/faculty
  appointments, if warranted
• Services for hearing aids/cochlear implants a
  popular request to schedule this appointment to
  see labs, meet people, etc.

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• Audiological requirements
• If they do not qualify, then they need to be
  referred to UAO
• We explain that they MUST benefit from NTIDs
  services (interpreting, cprint, tutoring,
  notetakers, etc) and we may ask for an IEP if
  they do not qualify
• Tuition rates for 2009-2010
• RIT 28,866
• NTID 10,233

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• Educational ability/level Associate or Bachelor
  degree bound?
• School for the Deaf?
• Mainstreamed school?
• ACT/SAT test scores, HS GPA, AP/Honors courses?
• Extracurricular activities or any other
  appointments theyd like
• Sports
• http//www.ntid.rit.edu/sports/riticprogram/deafat
  hletes.html

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Potential concerns

• I do not want to be around other Deaf people
  because I do not sign.
• (if they have a tour guide that signs in ASL or
  sits in on a class with an interpreter (when they
  prefer cprint))
• I do not belong here Im smarter than them
  this place is NOT a good fit for me.
• (if they meet with Associate-level faculty or
  observe an Associate-level class)
• Its too hard, Im scared that I wont fit in
  here
• (if an Associate bound person sits in on a
  Bachelor-level class).
• Open House may be too generic not able to
  address specific concerns/questions
• Confusion about tuition rates or which office to
  go to
• Deaf person shows up at the UAO office, expecting
  communication access, knowledge about classes,
  support services, etc

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Generation X, Y, Z?

• Gen Y
• High maintenance, high performers, high
  expectations/demanding of themselves
• Helicopter parents, closer parental involvement
• Millennial generation
• Email, Facebook, Twitter, technology!
• instant communication/gratification
• Open, smart, eager, responsive
• http//honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/Fac
  DevCom/guidebk/teachtip/GenY.htm

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How do we tailor the visit?

• http//www.ntid.rit.edu/prospective/campusvisitfor
  m.php
• Registration is received
• Information updated in our database
  (cross-referenced)
• Confirmation packet mailed/emailed out
• If questions remain, we follow up for
  clarification
• Contacts are made and appointments scheduled

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Thank you!

• Feel free to chat with me during the conference
  or connect via email
• Amy.Stornello_at_rit.edu
• 1-800-704-1514 work phone