What a whrilwind week I just had!
First, on Sunday last weekend we had one of our monthly (or more) online chats on our website. This is a great opportunity for us to chat LIVE with prospective students and their parents, and to answer any questions they have about UNH. We work hard to ensure we have as much of our staff logged on as possible to answer your questions, and we also ensure that a bunch of our Charger Ambassadors are logged on to answer questions for a student perspective.
Our online chats are only two hours ... EducationXpo on Thursday however was 12 hours! That's right ... a 12 hour online college fair. We were one of only a few colleges that had a staffer in our booth the entire time, and I am proud to say that that is normal for us. Over 300 prospective students visited our booth, which was one of the most visited booths on the fair!
In addition, we have also developed a way for students to chat with an admission counselor at their convenience at www.newhaven.edu/IM. Now you can chat with us on AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo, MSN, and more!
After EducationXpo I sent an e-mail to YOUniversityTV.com to see about the possibility of being filmed and listed on their site, which is a pretty exclusive group (only about 400 schools so far). The response I got was great:
"After researching your school's information, we have determined that your school meets our desired criteria for inclusion among our growing list of over 400 featured schools for the first ever online College Video Resource Community."
I am very excited to be a part of YOUniversityTV. As soon as we are up, I will be sure to post a link to the video.
Last but certainly not least, we have also signed on with YourCampus360 to develop an interactive, virtual walking tour of our campus. Not only will you be able to check out the different paths to walk around campus, but you will also get to check out 360 degree panoramic photos of our facilities, read biographies of our clubs and organizations, and also check out information about intramural sports, Division II sports, and learn more about our different residence halls!
