Miami University

Admission campaign generated 2,400 postcards

04/21/2009

The office of admission thanks the faculty, staff and students who volunteered their time to send personalized postcards to 2,400 admitted students who had not yet confirmed their admission to Miami.

The university responded after President Hodge emailed a personal invitation last week. From 9 am.-9 p.m. Thursday, April 16, 225 Miamians hand-wrote postcards to potential first-year students, in a coordinated effort at Shriver Center.

“To see a room full of math faculty, football coaches, lab technicians, computer programmers, second year undergrads, catering employees, and senior administrators lined up, focused on the critical singular task of helping to enroll our class (while trying to remember how to write in cursive), was pretty fantastic,” said Laurie Koehler, director of admission.

One student had a personal goal of writing 100 postcards, and by 9 p.m., she achieved it, added Koehler.

The postcards were stamped and mailed Thursday and Friday.