Recruitment Toolkit
Recruiting students can be a complicated, time consuming, and even overwhelming process that takes a great amount of attention, organization, and preparation.
Anytime is a great time to start laying the foundation needed to began identifying students for your academic program. Our hope is this toolkit will provide you with invaluable information related to identifying, recruiting and ultimately enrolling underrepresented students.
Best Practices in Diversity
Recruitment
Recruitment Scripts
In order to assist in the contacting and follow-up with prospective students, we offer the following templates for you to utilize when contacting potential graduate students.
Graduate School Conference Follow-Up Email Script is for departments to use when contacting potential students by email.
Graduate School Conference Follow-Up Phone Script is for departments to use when contacting potential students by phone.
Graduate School Conference Follow-Up for Faculty is a script for individual faculty to use when contacting potential students by email.
We also have scripts for reaching out to potential students from the National Name Exchange by Email or by Phone.
Recruitment Opportunities
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
- Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
- The California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education
- Florida A & M Feeder Conference
- MKN McNair Heartland Research Conference
- The National GEM Consortium
- National Institutes of Health Graduate and Professional School Fair
- National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
- National Ronald E. McNair Conference and Graduate Fair–MAEOPP and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- National Science Foundation Emerging Researchers National Conference (ERN)
- National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE)
- SAEOPP McNair Research Conference, Atlanta, GA
- Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
- University of New Mexico McNair Research Conference