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62 JOHN WAGONER
William Penn College can be made on a positive level, with words
of respect for, or "no comment" about, the competition.
Responding to a questionnaire in the late 70s, freshmen indi-cated
the top five reasons they chose William Penn College were
location, academic programs, size, athletics and financial aid. Any
one of these is a positive element in the colleges image, and has
consistently been a strong point in the case made by the college's
recruiters to prospective students.
Bringing this forward to the present, the college's most recent
and longest-tenured Director of Admissions, Eric Otto, believes
the evidence shows that what is bringing students to William Penn
College since the mid 90s is athletics and other types of student
activity, selected academic programs, the Leadership Core (although
some believe this has not been as large a factor in recruiting as was
hoped), Industrial Technology, Business courses (including, of
course the College for Working Adults), and Computer Science.
The evidence shows that, in terms of the overall enrollment
profile during the past twenty-five years the College for Working
Adults (CWA) has had a more dramatic impact than any other
single factor. While the CWA genesis reaches back into 1994 with
early marketing research, curricular planning and conversations
with both NCA and prospective consultants, classes did not begin
until the 97-98 academic year, with the first graduates receiving
their degrees at the 1999 Commencement. Nevertheless, in this
short span of time CWA enrollment has far outstripped other pro-grams
which have traditionally attracted high numbers of students,
such as Teacher Education, Athletics, Industrial Technology, Busi-ness
Administration (in the college's main campus curriculum)
and Computer Science. Not surprisingly, this has been the experi-ence
of a number of other colleges with similar "satellite campus"
degree-completion business programs, although William Penn
College's CWA program has outpaced most of the others in enroll-ment
growth, at least in the short term.
Putting aside the question of how or whether, in the long term,
the CWA will change the traditional liberal arts and sciences ethos
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| Title | A Continuing Purpose: A History of William Penn College: 1970-2000 |
| Creator | John Wagoner |
| Date | 2000 |
| Language | English |
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| Title | A Continuing Purpose: A History of William Penn College: 1970-2000, page 62 |
| Creator | John Wagoner |
| Date | 2000 |
| Identifier | A-Continuing-Purpose - 064_page 62 |
| Language | English |
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| Transcription | 62 JOHN WAGONER William Penn College can be made on a positive level, with words of respect for, or "no comment" about, the competition. Responding to a questionnaire in the late 70s, freshmen indi-cated the top five reasons they chose William Penn College were location, academic programs, size, athletics and financial aid. Any one of these is a positive element in the colleges image, and has consistently been a strong point in the case made by the college's recruiters to prospective students. Bringing this forward to the present, the college's most recent and longest-tenured Director of Admissions, Eric Otto, believes the evidence shows that what is bringing students to William Penn College since the mid 90s is athletics and other types of student activity, selected academic programs, the Leadership Core (although some believe this has not been as large a factor in recruiting as was hoped), Industrial Technology, Business courses (including, of course the College for Working Adults), and Computer Science. The evidence shows that, in terms of the overall enrollment profile during the past twenty-five years the College for Working Adults (CWA) has had a more dramatic impact than any other single factor. While the CWA genesis reaches back into 1994 with early marketing research, curricular planning and conversations with both NCA and prospective consultants, classes did not begin until the 97-98 academic year, with the first graduates receiving their degrees at the 1999 Commencement. Nevertheless, in this short span of time CWA enrollment has far outstripped other pro-grams which have traditionally attracted high numbers of students, such as Teacher Education, Athletics, Industrial Technology, Busi-ness Administration (in the college's main campus curriculum) and Computer Science. Not surprisingly, this has been the experi-ence of a number of other colleges with similar "satellite campus" degree-completion business programs, although William Penn College's CWA program has outpaced most of the others in enroll-ment growth, at least in the short term. Putting aside the question of how or whether, in the long term, the CWA will change the traditional liberal arts and sciences ethos |
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