My View On “Recruiters at Black Colleges Break From Tradition”
January 13th, 2012
It’s funny this article has appeared in WSJ. Paul Quinn College has not just started this process, actually this has been going for at least a decade. In the last four years under the leadership of Sorrell his new enrollment team building activities that he said would do big things, stopped recruiting Hispanics and others. In the early 2000s, there was a Hispanic presence, along with cultural activities. Activities included Cinco de Mayo, Hispanic Month, Baseball Club just to name a few. Since Sorrell has been at PQC he has discontinued all mentioned activities. Jessica was recruited by our past recruiter Nena Taylor, who was successful in recruiting students of all races, but let go from the school. As a favor to a friend, he hired a inexperienced director and assistant director whom are no longer with the college because of mere failure to recruit students of any kind. Thus far there has not been anyone to stand up to Nena and Cherice standards who were the previous enrollment team! The office has been under staffed with inexperienced persons for almost 3 years, so yes this seems new to Sorrell who knows nothing about Higher Education, let alone recruiting. He thinks he has created phenomenon. When it is in fact a quality that PQC history represents, nothing NEW. Don’t let Sorrell fool you, he is not trying to embrace students to continue the HBCU legacy. He needs students to stay open and that’s it and that’s all!!
Also, it’s funny that he would have Celia Solo listed in this article, especially after he didn’t really think she was a presidential scholar, but knew she would be good for publicity stunts. It’s funny how people can use a person and not be concerned about them personally, only how they can help them in the spotlight.
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