SCHOOLS PITCH PLUSES TO PUPILS; COLLEGE HOSTS DAY FOR STUDENTS TO LOOK AT TRANSFER CHOICES.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Recruiters from more than two dozen colleges and universities extolled the assets of their academic programs on a windy Monday morning during a transfer fair at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. . Students collected brochures from public and private schools across California, plus a smattering from out of state, and peppered the recruiters with questions about financial aid, course offerings and community profiles of the various college towns. Representatives from California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , spoke to probably the most students during the event, while recruiters from Pepperdine and Northern Michigan universities had the distinction of being the easy-sell and hard-sell sites, respectively. Paul Roberts, an alumni relations coordinator for the Marquette, Mich., campus, said most students had been asking him about cold weather in the town, on the south shore of Lake Superior. He tried to put a positive spin on that. ``We have four seasons of the year,'' Roberts said, thumbing through a NMU brochure with vivid, colorful photos of the campus in autumn. ``You're talking a beautiful spring, a beautiful summer, a beautiful fall,'' he said, adding that winters last from November through March. The campus recently completed a $100 million winterization Winterization refers to the process of preparing something for an upcoming winter. The term is most commonly used in respect to aquatic play features, fountains, and the like, which must be drained and sealed up so that water inside does not freeze, causing breakage of the , connecting its buildings via heated tunnels and skyways. The campus also has a domed athletic stadium, Roberts said. Over at the Pepperdine table, admissions and records manager Maria Labnow conceded that having a Malibu campus is a great asset that makes the university virtually sell itself to prospective community college transfer students. ``It's definitely something that lures them,'' Labnow said. ``But I haven't run into that many students who think it's a playground or a surfing school.'' Instead, most of the young adults quizzed her on the availability of financial aid, on the transfer requirements and on Pepperdine's academic programs for its 2,800 undergraduates, she said. Other schools represented at the transfer fair included California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. , University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , three other California State University Enrollment  campuses - Fresno, Dominguez Hills and Humboldt - two other out-of-state universities - Northern Arizona University Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public university in Flagstaff, Arizona in the United States.As of Fall 2007, the university has 21,352 students, 13,989 of these are situated in the main Flagstaff campus<ref name="Enrollment" />. and Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I. - and two chiropractic colleges. The private schools represented were California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Woodbury University in Burbank, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, University of Judaism in Bel-Air, Biola University in La Mirada, University of La Verne The University of La Verne is a private university in La Verne, California (about 35 miles east of Los Angeles) with a main campus, seven satellite campuses throughout central and southern California, a law school, and two military regional campuses at Point Mugu Naval Air Station , St. Mary's College of California in Moraga, U.S. International University in San Diego, Academy of Arts College in San Francisco, Loma Linda University and Concordia University in Irvine. At College of the Canyons, 231 students transferred to four-year colleges in 1994, according to the most recent data available. Of that number, 70.1 percent went to campuses in the California State University system California State University System, coordinating agency established in 1960 by the merger of individual California state colleges, now consisting of 23 campuses. , 23.8 percent transferred to University of California schools, and the remaining 6.1 percent went to private schools. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (color) From left, LaShonda Whitaker and Leah Strand talk to Biola University's Marana Basie at College of the Canyons on Monday. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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