Group Memo

After four or five years of continuous studying, students tend to forget all that their university has given them. Their minds wander from how will I be able to find a job to what will I be doing graduation night? This thinking leaves no time for them to reminisce on all of the good times they have had at Troy University. It will be down the road, on a long and lonely day spent in an office cubicle when finally they realize how much they got from their University. At this point the Alumni can give to the University at a whole new extent.

Graduation marks a whole new era in the ways that you can give to Troy University. While you were a student most of the ways that you could give back to your University were primarily on or near campus. Now however, you will be able to service your University by recruiting new students to Troy and by trying to bettering Troy’s name.

Once you have left Troy University’s campus the ways and people you can recruit to attend Troy vastly increases. More than likely you will have access to a vast expanse of coworkers some of whom will have high school aged children who are uncertain about where they wish to attend college. You also will be able to find possible incoming Troy freshman in places such as your church or any other organizations that you belong too. Relatives are very good places to find students that may be interested in Troy University.

After you have established where the recruits are it is time to begin recruiting them. Convincing some one to attend a college is a lot like selling you are a car, you must convince them that it is the right product for them without pushing too hard. To do this it is important to know what your schools strengths and weaknesses are. For Example, if a high school senior who was really interested in Troy University and the University of Alabama and an avid sports fan23, you should talk to him about Troy’s baseball team. You would talk to him about baseball because