If you’re not already active on Facebook, let me give you a good reason to sign up. York Technical College’s Facebook page is really taking off, with nearly 350 fans—100 in the last month alone—most of them students. The page, which is hosted by Kimberly Starnes from our Marketing department, provides a great opportunity for students as well as the rest of the college community to interact with the college and each other in fun, not-so-formal ways and pick up some valuable information along the way. It’s all about staying connected and finding ways to build school spirit, which we’ve discussed many times as being an extremely important factor in student retention and student success.
A growing number of students—and I hope you will join them—are participating in Facebook fun like “Snag Some Swag” (solving puzzles or discovering secret passwords for some nice York Tech gear), searching the campus for hidden pink flamingoes, or hula hooping for fun and prizes. (At least one staff member participated in a recent “Random Hula” event, and we have witnesses to prove it!) So please encourage students to become fans of the college, then begin commenting on our posts and pictures, or swing by a Facebook event to see what it’s all about, and I invite you to do the same.
While we’re on the subject of social media, I would also like to encourage everyone to follow York Tech on Twitter to be the first to hear about college news and events. And anyone into “geocaching” will be interested in knowing that we now have our own geocache here on campus. For those of you not familiar with geocaching, let’s just say it’s a kind of treasure hunting using a GPS or smart phone application. Yes, we know, our inner nerd is showing.
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