{"id":11936,"date":"2020-04-18T03:51:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T08:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2020-04-20T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:09:32","slug":"morningside-starts-virtual-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/11936","title":{"rendered":"Morningside starts virtual tours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Mari Pizzini\u2013<\/strong> Morningside College has begun\nconducting virtual visits with prospective students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nvirtual tours can combine any number of activities, from meeting with faculty\nto campus tours. Student ambassadors have even recently begun to give campus\ntours through facetime and WebEx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\nadded the virtual visit form the first part of April,\u201d Stephanie Peters,\nMorningside\u2019s Director of Admissions, said. \u201cWe had one virtual visit prior to\nputting out the form, and coaches are conducting visits as well as other\nfaculty members like Ryan Pearson.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\nbase the visits off what the student asks for,\u201d Peters continued. \u201cWe start\nwith the counselor, have them coordinate with students and find out about what\nall they want to know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peters\nsaid that faculty meetings have been one of their most popular choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt this stage it\u2019s not unusual to ask professors to call or email students, but this [virtual meetings] is taking it to a different level with a face-to-face meeting.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto Peters, physical campus visits are an important part of the recruiting\nprocess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHistorically, we yield about 30% of our campus visits. Part of the beauty of Morningside is the physical attraction of Morningside.\u201d She said that, currently, virtual face-to-face interactions with faculty were their best substitute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peters added that deciding to conduct virtual visits was based on two main ideas. \u201cWe saw the need to get to students outside of emails and literature in the mail. We also saw a need to bring the campus experience to them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doing\nthe best with what they have seems to be working. Prospective student Rosario\nVazquez mentioned that talking with her counselor, potential faculty, and\ncurrent students has given her the opportunity to see campus without actually\nvisiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nfor the future, Peters said that virtual visits could be here to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\nthink there is a very strong possibility to continue, especially with students\nwho are remote. The long-term plan is to put together a virtual campus tour\nthat we can share at any point in the recruitment process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mari Pizzini\u2013 Morningside College has begun conducting virtual visits with prospective students. The virtual tours can combine any number of activities, from meeting with faculty to campus tours. Student ambassadors have even recently begun to give campus tours through facetime and WebEx. \u201cWe added the virtual visit form the first part of April,\u201d Stephanie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":11958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[6119],"class_list":["post-11936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-morningside-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11938,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions\/11938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}