Abstract
This article analyzes how a small theatre program can collaborate with a campus recruiting office to attract and retain students across the liberal arts. Framing the challenge through research on creative student attrition, the discussion contends that limited size often fails to provide novelty and stimulation for highly creative students. It proposes an alternative recruiting emphasis that targets the broader student body by articulating how theatre develops flexible problem solving profiles, including initiator, diagnostician, artificer, aesthete, methodologist, and independent orientations. Examples connect these profiles to production and rehearsal practices that cultivate teamwork, evaluation, interpretation, and the translation of analysis into concrete creative work. The argument further maintains that theatre complements curricula that overvalue analytic modes by nurturing intuitive cognition useful for scientific and professional domains. Collaboration with recruiters can therefore position theatre as an essential component of undergraduate education rather than a niche pathway for majors only. The article concludes that strategic messaging and campus partnerships can transform program limitations into institution wide benefits.
Recommended Citation
Wegner, Pamela
(1986)
"Cooperation Between the Recruiting Office and the Theatre Program of Limited Size,"
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin: Vol. 58, Article 19.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/aca/vol58/iss1/19
