COE Communicator Volume 2 | Page 18

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION STUDENT RECRUITMENT UK College of Education Student Ambassador Casey Gettelfinger and Director of Recruitment Jenna Demastes at a stop in Owensboro. What it takes to be a Wildcat Jenna Demastes spent the first half of the fall semester telling high school students what it takes to be a Wildcat. Demastes, director of recruitment for the College of Education, joined the UK Office of Undergraduate Admission in recruiting an academically talented student body to enrich the learning community and represent the diverse society in which we live. The tour stopped in Lexington, northern Kentucky, Louisville, Dayton, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Chicago, Somerset, Corbin, St. Louis, Paducah, Hopkinsville, Owensboro, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Ashland, Pikeville, Atlanta, Nashville, Maysville and Columbus. Demastes told prospective students about the College of Education, admissions, financial aid, scholarships, housing/ living learning programs and the wide array of majors and degree programs that UK has to offer. On Student Teaching “When every other major led to discontent, I took one education class in which I had to acquire observation hours in the school. Within my first visit to a second-grade classroom, I knew that’s what I wanted to do forever.” 18 —Taylor Forrest, ’13, Elementary Education COE COMMUNICATOR | NOVEMBER 2014