Debra Carter Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Lawrence, Ks, Us

As Enrollment Analyst, I have driven institutional advancement through comprehensive leadership of recruitment operations while actively contributing to academic excellence through classroom instruction. My role encompasses strategic enrollment management, cross-departmental collaboration, and data-driven decision making that directly impacts institutional planning and student success. Working closely with academic program directors, administrative leadership, and student services, I have developed and implemented initiatives that strengthen both recruitment outcomes and academic pathways while maintaining rigorous compliance with institutional policies and accreditation requirements.• Led data-driven enrollment management initiatives through advanced analytics, providing strategic projections and insights that shaped institutional planning and resource allocation across multiple professional schools.• Advanced institutional policy development through leadership roles on Scholarship, Academic Affairs, and Student Success committees, while fostering cross-departmental collaboration with program directors, marketing teams, and community colleges.• Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of academic operations through classroom instruction and administrative oversight, including management of campus-wide testing services, degree audit processes, and ADA compliance initiatives.

From career assessments, occupational research and college exploration, to creating professional resumes, cover letters and CV's, Collage Counseling, equips students and professionals with the college to career tools needed to be a success.• Diagnose marketing and business challenges, develop and execute strategies, growing revenue annually. • Mentor clients during search and interview process for internships and jobs.• Administer and analyze tests to identify academic pathways and career options. • Counsel high school students and their families through all stages of the college selection process, leveraging new technologies to facilitate their search, testing, admissions, and financial aid.• Certified Meyers Briggs test administrator.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Lead retention team in collaboration with campus partners. Initiating high-impact practices to enhance student experience and promotes student success.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Liaise with executive team and senior leadership creating, refining, and implementing online programs, strategies, and outreach supporting university and student success. Analyze performance metrics tracking progress and measuring performance, ensuring compliance. Build and deliver training tools to manage capacity and performance. Proactively manage relationships with clients/stakeholders exceeding expectations.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Working remotely, built collaborative relationships with senior campus stakeholders to establish Athens State University as a leading online campus option for undergraduate and graduate students. Exceeded goals in initial cycle leading to position as retention specialist.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Manage a career preparation and professional development initiative for undergraduate international students, working cross-functionally with 4 on campus career centers in employer relations, experiential education and career development coaching. • Promote The University of Kansas to students, parents, agents and recruiters through presentations, seminars, and forums in 218 countries, across 6 continents.• Initiate the development of KU’s Career Accelerator Program workshop and event series, ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations and policies.• Lead creation of comprehensive program, utilizing a skeleton curriculum to design a 4-semester progression of career development topics; initiate and curate best practices, lesson-plan models and activities; CAPture Your Future Program.• Project lead, through seminars, workshops and one-on-one coaching, launched Employer Network, consulting with companies on internship development and evaluation to sustain employee pipeline.

Lawrence, Ks, Us

Freshman Year Experience instructor, instructional designer, focusing on cultural competency frameworks international students need to succeed in U.S. universities and careers. • Analyze and adapt curriculum for Freshman Year Experience courses to align with international students’ learning objectives and language proficiencies.• Design and implement scaffold content, yielding increased vocabulary knowledge and conversation skills, increasing cultural-competency frameworks.• Deliver engaging, memorabl and effective courses, implementing cross-cultural pedagogy and increasing student satisfaction (as reported in student surveys).

• Analyzed multiple data points to identify key markets with eye on potential areas for growth.• Initiated and developed Patient Satisfaction Program, evaluating both qualitative and quantitative data to inform strategy.• Developed and executed marketing strategies to ensure practice was positioned as one of the region’s leading cosmetic surgery options.• Continually analyzed data to inform marketing decisions, exceeding every KPI by delivering the practice story in the most compelling manner.

Leavenworth, Ks, Us

• Collaborated with faculty and administrators to advance students from diverse backgrounds, with varying abilities, to achieve academic success; promoted the development of strategies for academic inclusion, increasing overall acceptance of diversity, equity, and inclusion.• Mentored students through self-assessments of their academic, social and personal abilities, and guided them through goal-setting based on assessments and desired outcomes.• Guided students to utilize academic, social and technology resources to achieve success aligned with short and long term goals.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Staatsburg, Ny, Us

• Transformed Center’s brand as they transitioned populations, creating rebranding collateral and messaging.• Developed highly successful internal communications strategy focused on employee morale during time of transition, superseding retention goals.• Led all transition communications initiatives, resulting in premium press placements that positioned the center to attract top-talent employees and key partnerships with school districts across region.• Facilitated board, staff, parent and student consensus while developing all areas of academic, social and extracurricular programming.

Newburgh, Ny, Us

• Coached and mentored team of 8 professionals, 3 interns and 20 student staff on business development and implementation strategy and tactics.• Drove 50% increase in cross-department cooperation and attendance at recruitment events.• Analyzed new market opportunities and launched new markets in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico.• Collected, maintained and analyzed data for internal and external reporting, including U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings• Directed the development of admissions messaging, taking ownership of the dissemination of content and effectively promoting university offerings and services, resulting in increases at all stages of funnel and increased revenue in seven consecutive admissions cycles.

Doctor Of Education - Edd, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

M.S. Ed., Education

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Major Minors Public Relations And History

Italian Literature And Language