2. What is the NNE? Was established to help match graduate schools with minority students interested in graduate education. The National Name Exchange seeks to: Increase the number of qualified minority students accepted into graduate school; Improve student access to information on graduate school opportunities. Work towards personalizing the recruitment effort by designating a National Name Exchange institutional & department representatives to facilitate information exchange between the institution and prospective students. Assist graduate schools (and depts) in identifying qualified minority candidates for consideration for graduate study.
76. How Do Students Benefit? Participating in the National Name Exchange has really been valuable to me. It’s been an eye opening experience. It really feels good when top institutions contact you to let you know about their graduate programs. This has taught me not to limit myself when applying to graduate school and to aim for nothing less than the stars. — Student Participant, University of Maryland I am hearing from schools that I’m not sure I would have pursued otherwise, such as Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley. Student Participant, University of Florida —
77. What’s In It For Us? Relationship management Store notes [i.e. contacted student on 3/30, is also considering offers from Berkeley, etc.] Custom filter information that’s important to your program Sort by GPA, graduation year, ethnicity, research experience, area of interest, institution, already contacted, date contacted Access to over 6K students nationwide
78. What’s In It For Us? Con’t Real time access to student info & notifications Create/store email templates to students i.e. Response to students seeking info about specific programs in department, Funding opportunities, About the UW/Seattle
81. How Departments use the NNE To let students know when they’re in town for recruitment fairs, coffee, etc. Sort by institution, zip code, etc. Sync with departmental prospective student database Maintain communication with prospectives year round, rather than 1x year.
82. Contact: Sophia Agtarap: sagtarap@uw.edu OR 206.543.9016 in the GO-MAP Office Need a log-in, or forgot yours Refresher on how to use the NNE Go over best practices