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Students Recruiting Students

Recruiting students into the Manoa Undergraduate Honors Program is a major focus for this academic year. We’ve just finished a revised edition of the Honors brochure (which you can find on the website) and we are in the process of completing a dynamic power presentation for high school students and their families. As we brainstorm more recruitment ideas, we need Honors students recruiting students – we need your recruitment ideas and your participation.

Let’s start with ideas first. We invite you to send us any ideas you may have that would help us promote the Honors Program. There are two different groups of students that we need to target for recruitment. First, we want to encourage new and prospective students (both freshmen and transfer students) to join Honors. Secondly, we want to encourage continuing UH-Manoa students (including you and your friends) to consider applying for the Upper Division Honors Program. If you have any ideas about how you or any Honors student can help us get the word out that UH-Manoa has an exciting opportunity for academically talented students to become a member of a challenging living and learning community, and for students to tap the powerful intellectual potential of research and creative endeavors, please let me know. My contact information follows:

JEANNE OKA
Honors Academic Advisor
E-mail: jo@advisors.hawaii.edu
Phone: 956-9515
Office: Hawaii Hall 114

Now, how can you participate? In a few different ways:

(1) If you are a graduate of a Hawaii high school, we invite you to give us the name of your high school counselor or teacher who we could contact to set up a recruitment presentation at your alma mater. We also invite you to provide us with a written endorsement that we could include in our letter to your high school. The written endorsement might be a description of ways that Honors has been of benefit to you. STOP READING NOW! GO TO YOUR COMPUTER AND SEND ME YOUR ENDORSMENT! Send to jo@advisors.hawaii.edu

(2) If you would like to share your Honors experience at a recruitment event, either with new or continuing students (or both) please apply to be an Honors Student Ambassador. To be considered for the Ambassadors List, you need to have participated in at least two Honors programs. These might include any of the following: Summer NSO - “Manoa as Text”, A-Section courses, Honors alpha courses (Hon 101, 301, 491) as well as experience serving as an Honors Peer Mentor. As a potential Honors Ambassador, you should also be prepared to enthusiastically share your Honors experiences with prospective students.

We think your Honors story is the best recruitment tool we have and we would like an Honors Student Ambassador to accompany us on every recruitment event we attend. STOP! Go to your computer now and tell me you want to be considered for the Honors Student Ambassadors List. Remember: without recruitment, we will have no program.