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Ed Webb

Admission Officials' Tweets Fall on Deaf Ears - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Evidence has shown that teenagers rely on college visits and Web sites to learn about colleges, rather than social-media outlets. When it comes to Twitter, students are barely on the site at all, let alone for college research purposes.
  • Rebecca Whitehead, assistant director of campus visits and engagements at Winthrop University, maintains the admissions office’s Twitter account, which currently has 373 followers. She says she uses it largely to connect with other higher-education professionals, to find out about upcoming events or research.
Ed Webb

M.I.T. Lets Student Bloggers Post Without Censoring - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • M.I.T.’s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to four hours a week, offer thoughts on anything that might interest a prospective student.
  • “High school students read the blogs, and they come in and say ‘I can’t believe Haverford students get to do such interesting things with their summers,’ ” he said. “There’s no better way for students to learn about a college than from other students.”
  • “We saw very quickly that prospective students were engaging with each other and building their own community,”
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  • annual “Meet the Bloggers” session at Campus Preview Weekend.
  • “The annual blogger selection is like the admissions office’s own running of the bulls,”
  • Ms. Kim once wrote about how the resident advising system was making it impossible for her to move out of her housing — expressing enough irritation that the housing office requested that the admissions office take her post down. Officials refused, instead having the housing office post a rebuttal of her accusations; eventually, the system was changed.
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