Elevating Admission Voices

New to enrollment management? You aren't alone! Cassie Jo Cunningham, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Salem College shares her experience on being new to this unique career and what she has learned so far.

What is the thread that connects all the work we do? Between the admissions office to student success to alumni involvement, be the person that starts connections on a campus. Let’s talk about it with Stephanie Chipman the Vice President of External Relations at Illinois College. Sometimes changing the culture structure can be tough, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying.

With conference season upon us, hear from four professionals that have leaned into leadership. Featured on the program is: Julio Mata - Director of College Counseling at Francis Parker School  Lacey Patterson - Assistant Director and Texas Regional Representative at University of Iowa Sheldon Tawata - Outreach Coordinator at Kapiolani Community College Sean Kennedy - Co Director of College Counseling at Ravenscroft School

Pull up a chair and join me while I talk to Hillen Grasen Jr., Dean of Admission at Franklin and Marshall College  in Lancaster, Pennsylvania about leading people through good personal preparation and when it comes to the expectation in transition - its not perfection.

Pull up a chair because in this episode we talking to Dr. Mardell Maxwell, Executive Director at University of Houston. He calls on all of us to think about what is the gap that we stand in and how do we show up in leadership.

Not only are you going to want to grab a chair but grab a pen, our guest is Hope Krutz - President of Enroll360 at EAB. We are going to dive into questions like "are we doing strategic things or tactical things" - "what is a one way door or a two way door" - "are you a deep end person or shallow end person". Its a great episode, lets get started!

This episodes guest is Anne Kremer - Senior Director, Client Success Leader at Carnegie as we talk about the power of saying yes, and that you also give yourself the grace to say no. 

The conversation with Dan Saavedra, President and Founder of StriveScan, starts with a high school mentorship and ends with a founder of a company that many of us are using everyday in our work.

Joining me is Cassy Tefft de Muñoz, Executive Director of Enrollment Initiatives at Michigan Technological University. We talk about spontaneous adaptability, attention to detail, gen z, gen zoom. Lets get started!

Pull up a chair! Joining us to kickoff season 2 of Elevating Admission Voices is DJ Menifee, Vice President for Enrollment at Susquehanna University, as we talk about approaching everything with a purpose, committing to self reflection and the value of being your authentic self.  

You know those people in your orbit that you get to observe, get to learn from and watch...they influence you and you think "gosh I would love to talk to them". Today is that day, we sit down with Lawrence Q Alexander II, independent consultant serving schools as a DEIB strategist on a wide range of topics.  

Carin Smith, Chicago-based Midwest Regional Admission Manager for Beloit College joins the conversation as we dove into why we sometimes just need to close the physical door to our offices and how we might not do it well every day...we can do it a little bit better than the day before. 

Can we lead with care and have fun? Join me in sitting down with Patrick Correia-Harker, Assistant Director of National Recruitment at Marquette University to hear a little bit about his journey and the fun he has had along the way. 

Today we talk with Julie Nelson, Assistant Dean of Admission-Xavier University, about everything from the importance of keeping people in the loop to what it means to be a self cheerleader. 

On this Episode, Alejandra Sosa Pieroni, Vice President & Enrollment Management Consultant for Ruffalo Noel Levitz, answers the question - is a good leader someone who is confident or competent? And why her favorite word is believe. 

We talk with three women who are currently serving as independent counselors and ultimately we ask what is the best thing that can happen next?

We talk with Eastern Illinois University's own Omar Solomon about the importance of connections, the people that build those connections, and at the heart of what we do, we have to build those connections first before we start talking about our institutions.

This week we talk to Jennifer McClendon, Associate Director of Recruitment at Oklahoma State University, about her path to leadership was regional and what that means to her professional journey.

Mayra Lagunas, Assistant Vice President & Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Northern Illinois University about revolutionary love and how she will always keep being a college admission counselor at the core of her heart.

Brian Hodges, Senior Associate Director at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign talks about how to think bigger and bolder and the importance of having those difficult conversations to be a change that YOU want to see.

Christina Berardi, Senior Associate Dean of Admissions at Salve Regina and Erin Earle, Ed.D., Director of Campus Visit Experience at the University of Rhode Island encourages young leaders to tap into the admissions network.

Nikki Chun, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, talks about the joy of leading with your own strengths.