Making a commitment to a two- to four-year degree is much like getting married.

Making a commitment to a two- to four-year degree is much like getting married. If you do not know what you’re walking into, that commitment may fail. Getting to know a KU is imperative for success in many instances. This is why KU open their doors for inspection to new recruits before the KU year begins. Now, many colleges & universities are opening virtual doors through blogs that may reveal a school’s perspective on itself and on the world.

One outreach method that many colleges & universties are trying includes the student blog on admissions pages. Students are recruited to talk about their lives on campus on blogs, so new university recruits can read what it might be like to live on campus and attend that university. In other cases, the university dean may provide that outreach, and in other cases still, departments within a university may blog about their activities. In all cases, the blog (short for Weblog, or online journal) provides insight into the college and into the perspectives of the person or persons who write and edit those blogs. Whether these blogs help to retain students in a happy co-existance with the university throughout the length of the degree course is unknown.