More accountability for mentoring, recruitment initiative
Helping Hands logo. Helping Hands is a mentoring and recruitment initiative of Avondale College. It encourages students to mentor those they introduce to Avondale by, among other things, helping them register and introducing them to life at Avondale. Director of advancement Lorin Bradford says Helping Hands has two major benefits. First, it helps new students better adjust to life at Avondale and, second, it rewards current students for promoting Avondale within their circle of friends.
“Get a free unit.*” Upon completion of a checklist, the student serving as the mentor can choose to receive a free unit or take $1000 off the cost of their accommodation.
“Avondale is changing the way we help you.” Helping Hands has worked best as a recruitment initiative. In semester one this past year, 74 students enrolled because 52 students registered to recruit them. The figures this year: 126 and 69. However, the students registering would, according to assistant marketing manager Jo-Anne Vint, do little else to mentor the new student once the student began their study.
“Terms and conditions.*” Students registering for Helping Hands must now complete a new five-step process and ensure their recruited student or students—there is no limit to the number of students a student can recruit—enrols for two consecutive semesters before receiving their reward. Students must now:
1. Register their prospective student or students before Friday, February 18, 2011.
2. Attend Registration Day with their prospective student or students and host a tour.
3. Log mentoring and recruitment activities.
4. Attend a mentoring session in March 2011.
5. Submit a declaration and the log to Student Finance before 12.00 PM on Friday, June 3, 2011.
Tags: Advancement, Helping Hands