Two years ago, Lauren Horn Griffin joined the ARC webinar to discuss what were then recent initiatives implemented in her department to recruit new majors. Given the number of programs in which the total number of majors (or annual number of graduating majors) has now become a metric of real consequence, it’s an ideal time to have Lauren back, to update us on their successes, continued challenges, and strategies to recruit but also to retain majors as well as student interest.
This is part of a monthly webinar series of AAR’s Academic Relations Committee (ARC); all of these meetings tackle topics of direct relevance to the success of a department (comprised of a 30-minute interview with the guest and then a 30-minute open Q&A for those attending the session). The webinars are recorded and eventually posted on the ARC page on the AAR site.