Last month I had the opportunity to participate in the NACAC Day of Advocacy on Capitol Hill.  What a learning experience!  My many thanks to Sean Robins and the NACAC team for supporting this event with an advanced day of “training”.  Also, a shout out to my partner, Rose Llanos, from Lynn University, for trudging around the Hill with me.  We got our steps in for sure. In advance of spending our day on the Hill, as part of our advocacy training, we discussed opportunities to

Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the Conference on Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice (CERPP) in Los Angeles, where, amongst other topics, we discussed the future of college admission. First, my shout out thanks to Julie Posselt, Emily Chung, and their team for hosting a great thought-provoking event.  Given the Supreme Court decision on race conscious admission coupled with the current administration activities, diving into the future of college admission w

I’ve been working on a project for an institution where we are building a financial model that integrates new student enrollment, continuing student enrollment, and financial aid across all levels – undergraduate and graduate.  While not a new concept, for high end market position institutions with rich endowments, this may be a newer construct. At Saint Joseph’s University, because of the collaborative, committee-oriented culture of the institution, we had this structure in

This past fall, I had the opportunity to attend the Strada  Foundation’s State Opportunity Index event in Washington DC as part of some advisory work I was engaged with in association with the foundation.  One of the principles discussed at the conference involved higher education access leading to completion to opportunity.  I heard someone wiser than me recently say, “access without completion is a broken promise” – truer words were never said.  Similarly, this past fall,