This document compares the roles and experiences of general admissions recruitment ambassadors and honors program ambassadors at Eastern Kentucky University. While the two groups of ambassadors have similar tasks like giving tours and speaking to potential students, there are some key differences. General admissions ambassadors give daily tours to larger groups and focus on the general public, while honors ambassadors work fewer events and strictly with honors students. Both groups enjoy sharing their experiences and seeing appreciation from students, but dislikes include communication issues and irregular events for honors ambassadors.

1. “WELCOME TO EASTERN KENTUCKY
UNIVERSITY, I’LL BE YOUR GUIDE
TODAY”
A COMPARISON OF GENERAL ADMISSIONS
RECRUITMENT AND HONORS PROGRAM
RECRUITMENT
By Jessa Hay
Mentor Katie Patton

2. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS (ARA)
• Daily tour guides
• 2-3 tours per day
• Taken all over campus
• Do group tours
• Student representatives to
prospective honors students, EKU
Honors alumni, and the EKU
community
• Share experiences being an EKU
Honors student
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT AMBASSADORS
VS. HONORS AMBASSADORS

3. SIMILARITIES IN TASKS
• Talk to potential students and their parents
• Work Spotlight Days
• Run Student Panels
• Share a love for EKU
• Give tours around campus
• Slight differences in where students are taken

4. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS
• Focus on general public
• Paid position
• Work daily
• 20-30 people involved
• Volunteer opportunity
• 10 people involved
• Strictly Honors students
• Work few events here and there
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
DIFFERENCES IN TASKS

5. WHO’S INVOLVED
• Greek Life
• Tutors
• Student Leaders
• Honors Students
• Department Organizations
• Upperclassmen
• Usually involved in at least one other campus activity/group

6. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS
• Getting to meet new people and
become friends with my coworkers
• Seeing the appreciation from students
and parents
• Getting to talk about the school we
love
• Seeing the variety of students
interested in EKU
• Getting to work with incoming
students who are interested about
Honors
• Hearing perspective students’ stories
• Helping students figure out
everything about Honors
• Talking to parents and students about
Honors
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
LIKES ABOUT THE POSITION

7. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS
• Disconnect in communication
between supervisors and student
workers
• Getting “that family” on tours
• Working with middle schoolers and
some high schoolers on group tours
• Talking to some of the parents
• Not having a lot of opportunities to
speak about Honors
• Irregularity of events
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
DISLIKES ABOUT THE POSITION

8. ADMISSIONS RECRUITMENT
AMBASSADORS
• Better training in the beginning
• Better communication overall
• More outreach/ emailing students
• Visiting more high schools
• More events overall
HONORS PROGRAM
AMBASSADORS
CHANGES THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE

9. IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT LEADERSHIP
ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
• Positively associated with leadership capacity and efficacy
• Service experiences offer vehicle for powerful learning related to
leadership development
• Increase leadership knowledge, skills and values
• Service learning positively influence leadership skills, importance of
helping career, occupational identity processing, and social involvement
• Positive impact on development of career-related skills
• Enhance perception of how well college has prepared them for their
future
O'Dell, Kyle, PhD. "Why Lead?" Student Leadership. John Carroll University, n.d. Web. 08 Jan.
2017.