Recruitment Activities

Hawkeye Visit Days: Faculty can participate through a couple of options: a. Continental Breakfast, 8:30am-9:30am, meet the families/students informally and have a light breakfast on us!
b. Information Fair, 12:30pm-1:30pm, answer questions about your department/majors

Monday February 18
Friday February 29
Friday March 7
Friday March 28
Friday April 18

Main Lounge, IMU
contact michelle-danielson@uiowa.edu (335-1560)

Minority/TRIO focused Special Group Visits:
Tues-Wed February 26-27; Chicago’s North Lawndale High School visit Friday-Saturday April 4-5; Iowa Lakes Community College Upward Bound visit
Tentative future visits: Rochester, MN Boys & Girls Club; Chicago’s Walter Payton College Prep HS; Chicago Public Schools

contact valerie-garr@uiowa.edu (335-1972)
or tara-ripple@uiowa.edu (335-1922)

Off-Campus: Next Step IOWA: Faculty can travel to targeted Illinois and Minnesota communities for evening receptions showcasing the University of Iowa.

Next Step IOWA Chicago:                Monday March 3-6
Next Step IOWA Minneapolis:          Tuesday March 11-12

contact john-laverty@uiowa.edu (335-0097)

Office of Admissions Texas recruitment/outreach events in April: If faculty know of alumni who live in these Texas communities, please share these potential dates for alumni/community connections with them.

April 21 – Dallas/Ft.Worth
April 22 – Houston
April 23 – San Antonio
April 24 – Austin

CDE Campus Visit/Elgin & S. Elgin, IL: Invitation to have lunch with this group of 40 high school students (juniors and seniors, mostly Latino/as and African-Americans) on Friday, April 4, 11:45-12:45 pm in Burge Dining Hall.

Contact gabriela-rivera@uiowa.edu (335-3555) by Friday, March 14.