2008 Woodie Awards
Miami joins online college fair geared toward high school students
Roger Sauerhaft
Issue date: 11/16/07 Section: Campus
Tuesday marked the start of the first CollegeWeekLive (CWL), a two-day virtual college fair intended to serve as a new tool for those involved in the college search.
The free event for students, lasting from 3-11 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, operated the same way a typical college fair would work, as each of the schools-including Miami University-operated a booth for students to enter, much like a chat room. CWL will not be occurring again for the remainder of this year, but will be available in archive form.
Each booth was operated by admission officials from the more than 50 colleges represented, such as the University of Texas, University of Virginia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to CWL's Web site.
In these online booths students were able to pose questions, in real time, to admission officials while hearing from various keynote speakers with expertise in the college admission process.
According to Jen Poletti, senior associate director of admission at Miami, getting involved in CWL was an easy choice.
"They actually contacted us a while back and asked if we wanted to be involved and we looked into it, looked at some of the schools that were participating and we just got involved,"
Poletti said.
According to Poletti, more than 10,000 students had registered to participate in CWL, which will charge a fee for participating schools starting next year.
"There's no charge to us, and it was a pretty easy setup where they did pretty much all the legwork themselves," Poletti said. "We'll have to see how this year goes, if we will choose to participate next year. I'm not sure of the cost-I know it won't be free but we'll have to choose if we do this program again."
Poletti said a further reason for taking part of the program was the partnership CWL has with Ventures Scholars, which she described as a program for multicultural or first generation students with interest in math and science.
The free event for students, lasting from 3-11 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, operated the same way a typical college fair would work, as each of the schools-including Miami University-operated a booth for students to enter, much like a chat room. CWL will not be occurring again for the remainder of this year, but will be available in archive form.
Each booth was operated by admission officials from the more than 50 colleges represented, such as the University of Texas, University of Virginia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to CWL's Web site.
In these online booths students were able to pose questions, in real time, to admission officials while hearing from various keynote speakers with expertise in the college admission process.
According to Jen Poletti, senior associate director of admission at Miami, getting involved in CWL was an easy choice.
"They actually contacted us a while back and asked if we wanted to be involved and we looked into it, looked at some of the schools that were participating and we just got involved,"
Poletti said.
According to Poletti, more than 10,000 students had registered to participate in CWL, which will charge a fee for participating schools starting next year.
"There's no charge to us, and it was a pretty easy setup where they did pretty much all the legwork themselves," Poletti said. "We'll have to see how this year goes, if we will choose to participate next year. I'm not sure of the cost-I know it won't be free but we'll have to choose if we do this program again."
Poletti said a further reason for taking part of the program was the partnership CWL has with Ventures Scholars, which she described as a program for multicultural or first generation students with interest in math and science.
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