Dr. Susan Schulz

Hi Dale Sounds like you are doing some great community outreach and doing good. Now need to transform that into positive results for your school. Each of the projects can probably be written up and submitted as a story to your local press. When the story is published print copies and scan the articles and send them out to students, alumni, employers, and more. It's a good way to get information about your programs out to the community. And many of the people you work with on the community projects may also be business leaders that you can meet with… >>>

Hi Brikell Sounds like you have a lot of community outreach and public relations events. That's great. Hope you get a lot of news articles out of these. The nutrition programs sound great. A value to the community and yes, a plug for the school. Yes, very smart. Hopefully students help with all these projects. When students participate and work with other students and staff they tend to bond with the school. This increases retention. Research shows this. Measuring results is always a challenge. It takes a while to figure out how to do this. Some things are easy to… >>>

Jim , Externships take a while to set up and get right, in our opinion. Once you have the "forumla" then they can be very productive. I once spoke with an externship coordinator who claims that 100% of grads get placed from their externship sites. That was amazing and made me think about what had to be done to make that happen. Students need to be prepared both in skills and knowledge. They also have to be well prepared in employment skills. They have to realize they are on a very long job interview! There must be on site and… >>>