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Greater Boston Area

Enrollment Mangement and Marketing Assessment

Prescott AZ

• Responsible for managing all aspects of admissions strategy and marketing, enrollment modeling, and financial aid.
• Successfully formulated and led a strategic institutional financial aid investment program that over seven years used tuition discounting and aid leveraging to grow enrollment, achieve aggressive net tuition revenue.
• Built and maintained predictive admissions, enrollment and financial aid models for all college programs.
• Reorganized admissions and financial aid into a cohesive enrollment management unit consisting of marketing, recruiting, operations, and financial aid teams.
• Successfully persuaded Board of Trustees to undertake a $6 million project to build new freshman housing based on the positive impact of increased residential capacity on freshman demand, enrollment and persistence.
• Prepared the College for increased undergraduate admissions selectivity and improved academic support; researched and implemented a new system for evaluating and tracking freshman college readiness using benchmarks.

Prescott AZ

• Managed admissions program that recruits, admits, and enrolls undergraduate students into the College’s on-campus undergraduate program. Formulated and implemented institutional discounting strategies and policies for.
• Successfully led turnaround of failing admissions and recruitment program resulting in a 100% increase in undergraduate applications.
• Increased new enrollment in the resident undergraduate program by 60% while measurably increasing the overall academic quality of enrolling students and student retention.
• Stopped and reversed a five-year trend of diminishing enrollment in the resident undergraduate program achieving full recovery of optimal enrollment by Fall 2010.
• Led the successful repositioning of the residential undergraduate program into a more academically competitive and credible cohort of competitor institutions.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Oversaw operations of the Admissions, Financial Aid, Registration and Records and Student Services departments
• Developed highly successful high school recruitment network of private arts academies and arts magnets that provided 50% of freshman applications and enrollment.
• Increased graduate enrollment by 80% and net tuition revenue by $2 million over two years; restructured the graduate admissions process and deftly managed the transition to a two-tiered tuition structure.
• Chaired Strategic Planning task force that developed a new undergraduate curriculum model to cost effectively diversify curricular offerings and improve marketability.
• Implemented Admissions and Communications Management modules of Datatel Colleague integrated data processing system; highly proficient in most Colleague modules.
• Collaborated with staff and web developers to design and implements Institute’s website providing access to up-to-date information for prospects and Admissions recruitment staff, facilitating cost-benefit analyses and.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Reorganized and computerized the Institute’s Financial Aid Department. Assumed joint responsibility with Director of Student Services for analysis and implementation of retention programming.
• Conducted Institute’s first student satisfaction surveys and retention studies; doubled freshman to sophomore retention over a period of 5 years.
• Implemented PowerFaids financial aid software and designed packaging system – produced on-target institutional financial aid results and increased yield among highly qualified admits; extensive knowledge of tuition.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed admissions program that evaluated 600 undergraduate and 500 graduate applications annually.
• Developed recruitment planning process and Alumni recruitment network that visited 200 high schools and community colleges and participated in 100 recruitment events annually.
• Increased undergraduate inquiries 75% and applications 20%, graduate inquiries 50% and applications 20% over three-year period through improved promotion.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed admissions program that evaluated 1,300 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate applications annually. Responsible for personnel, operations and budget.
• Developed more analytical planning process to increase quality and quantity of enrollment that resulted in 15% increase in undergraduate enrollment.
• Directed Admissions professional staff, 10 alumni recruiters, direct mail campaign, 65 recruitment events and 600 high school visits annually.
• Reorganized department to create an efficient service-oriented business environment, improved communication with school offices and committees, and improved prospective and new student counseling and registration.

Greater Chicago Area

Managed scholarship, fellowship, and student loan programs and recruited MBA candidates.

Education record

Mfa, Fine Arts

Bfa, Fine Arts