{"id":6067,"date":"2020-04-09T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:49:07","slug":"admissions-recruits-virtually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2020\/04\/09\/admissions-recruits-virtually\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions Recruits Virtually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the COVID-19 situation has emptied college campuses and high school classrooms, Missouri Western&#8217;s Admissions team and recruiters have worked to develop easily accessible digital experiences for prospective students. This included updating virtual tours and developing multi-faceted approaches to bring campus to students in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Various projects included:<br \/>\n-Comprehensive video-based narrative tour starring admissions staff<br \/>\n-Individual personal video messages and guidance from departments\/school\/college stakeholders<br \/>\n-Interactive ARCGIS Web-based virtual tour in lieu of campus visits<br \/>\n-Ramped up emailing and phone-call campaigns<\/p>\n<p>Admissions also held a virtual Griffon Showcase that had been scheduled for April 4. Prospective students and their families logged into a special website and were able to chat with faculty, staff and current students and gain all the information they would have gotten had they been able to come to campus.<\/p>\n<p>Marissa Steimel, director of new student initiatives, said they are looking at ways to make other events go virtual, such as their Griffon Orientation program in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the COVID-19 situation has emptied college campuses and high school classrooms, Missouri Western&#8217;s Admissions team and recruiters have worked to develop easily accessible digital experiences for prospective students. This included updating virtual tours and developing multi-faceted approaches to bring campus to students in their homes. Various projects included: -Comprehensive video-based narrative tour starring admissions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}