Deans See Families as Key to Recruiting Hispanic Students; Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 10/25/12

Jamaal Abdul-Alim, Diverse Issues in Higher Education; Deans See Families as Key to Recruiting Hispanic Students: "Juan Garcia, Vice President of Student Success at NMSU Alamogordo, said the program is in line with Moder’s advice to start early and begin with the family when seeking to recruit Hispanic students. “If you’re going to recruit the Latino, you have to recruit the whole family,” Garcia said. If institutions fail to involve the family, he said, “you’re setting the students up for failure.” Moder—drawing from his past experience as president of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, where more than half the students are Hispanic—offered a series of tips on working with Hispanic students and their families. Those tips, listed in a handout titled “Strategies for Recruiting Hispanic Students,” included..."