A Summary of Navy Recruiting Efforts in Community Colleges in FY 1997

This paper summarizes FY 97 efforts to increase the recruitment of community college graduates, specifically targeting the recruitment of graduates with allied health care specialties. It compares the efforts and results for the last two years and offers recommendations for FY 98. Despite many new efforts initiated in FY 97 aimed at the community college market, only 17 more recruits had Associate degrees in FY 97 than in FY 96. Since the shift from recruiting from high school to the community college market is a major change, it will take some time to make significant progress. It appears more resources are needed for the general recruiting effort and possibly a further increase is necessary to expand community college recruiting.