Robert Melvin Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Tx, United States

• Promotes the university at recruitment events across my territory of 10 states, including pre-med presentations, health and graduate fairs, advisor visits, and information sessions • Develops new domestic and markets, enhancing diversity and increasing yields • Contacts perspective students via email, phone, and direct mail to follow-up on inquiries. • Develops relationships with Advisors to become liaisons on their individual campuses • Creates reports to monitor recruitment trends, applications and enrollment activities within territory • Tracks all interactions in the customer relationship management (CRM) system according to the admission policies and procedures

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

o Advises cohort of student on a campus-wide basis and meets with students on a regular basis to track their academic progress and success. o Provides career advising to students. Tracks and provides data on cohort group including success, retention, and completion rates. o Works with faculty and counselors to develop and deliver Student Success Seminars. Works with faculty and university staff to identify and provide needed early interventions to their cohort groups. o Provides informational and training sessions related to first-time-in-college students. o Reviews transcripts to ensure eligibility for admission to a specific program and evaluates transfer credits and applicability to program requirements and makes referrals when necessary. o Assists in the planning, development, and implementation of orientation programs for students. Provide academic assistance to Summer of Success Students and students in academic support programs.

• Represents the University of Houston to the public community in Houston, throughout Texas, and across the nation. Develops and implements strategies and programs to facilitate recruitment and enrollment. Leads team of admissions staff members.• Recruits and promotes University opportunities to prospective students by developing and delivering presentations to high schools, businesses, organizations and UH alumni.• Maintains key relationships with high schools, community colleges and the media.• Serves as Lead Counselor in an assigned recruitment area; Assesses and monitors the progress of recruitment efforts.• Supervises, trains and evaluates student assistants in ongoing recruitment projects such as campus tours, mail-outs, phone campaigns and UH Ambassadors.• Plans, organizes and supervises implementation of university/college recruitment projects and events.• Maintains a high level of knowledge regarding the Student Information System and acts as troubleshooter for Outreach and Admissions staff.• Monitors target markets and university enrollment and produces reports for use by Outreach and Admissions staff.• Assists with the development of a training plan for new counselors.

Houston

Serves as part of a student-centered enrollment management team, and performs comprehensive recruitment activities to achieve enrollment goals for a specific territory and to support the overall recruitment goals of the university. Serves as the primary contact for developing relationships with prospective students within the territory, developing an inquiry pool and moving prospects through the admission processes and to enrollment through extensive personal contact. Responsible for enrollment management of assigned territories using statistical data, tracking prospects and inquiries through funnels, development of communication plans (calls, letters, and emails).Provides follow up with prospects from initial contact to actual enrollment. Responsible for implementing strategies from the recruitment plan for Houston and surrounding areas. This includes proposing initiatives, coordinating activities, developing budgets and evaluating outcomes. Participates in off-campus recruitment events locally and state-wide for the purposes of recruiting high school students. Coordinates partnership efforts with school administrators, counselors and non-profit college prep organizations to promote programs and enrollment. Makes presentations to high school students, parents, counselors and any other individuals and/or organizations for the purposes of recruitment. Provides pre-admission counseling for prospective high schools students and families. Supports university activities, such as on campus recruitment events and orientation/registration activities.

Houston, Texas Area

Programing and Marketing• Coordinated and Marketed for the Clinton Global Initiative University(CGIU); increased applications from 12 the previous year to 60 applications this year• Assist with the CGIU in reviewing each application and selecting the most qualified applicants to be approved for attendance and funding • Balance travel, lodging and seed money for the Clinton Global Initiative of $16,000• Coordinated an Early Voting Campaign that included getting students deputized, administered over4000 students being registered to vote, and facilitating an early voting shuttle that bussed over 200 students to voter stations over a three day period• Assisted in planning and implementing semester long Cougar Nights, a new night and weekend program• Balance operation and programming budget for the Student Staff Training budget of $8000• Develop print and digital marketing for the Catalyst Leadership Luncheon , a candid lunch where keynote speakers give a lecture to a group of 30-45 students during a lunch hour• Manage the selection of professional speakers for the Catalyst Leadership Luncheon • Control and manage an ever changing student employee listserv of over 80 students Research and Implementation • Researched model student staff training programs at peer institutions for implementation at University of Houston• Created a Student Staff Training curriculum that is holistic to include professional, personal and social training for each student • Assist with the planning, development, and implementation of the Student Staff Yearly Training Calendar Activities including monthly workshops, Student Staff Scholarships, evaluations, and assessments• Analyze Learning Outcomes Assessments completed by Student Life Student Staff to utilize in future training plans• Assist with the development of written materials and marketing efforts related to Student Life Student Employment and Training

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Journalism And Electronic Media