The document outlines the presenter's academic and professional interests in higher education, enrollment management, organizational transformation and leadership, diversity and equity, and multicultural studies. Their goal is to develop cultural competency through coursework to better serve diverse student populations and lead enrollment efforts at institutions with special concerns through strategic planning and research on diversity-related issues in enrollment management.
3. Higher Education
Enrollment
Management
…professional interest became an academic one. Studies in enrollment
management were the basis of my masters project which focused on the
intricate balance of streamlining university resources to optimize student
needs—a balance designed to also achieve institutional success.
Higher Education
4. Higher Education
Organizational
Transformation
& Leadership
Enrollment
Management
In order to achieve this, however, a competent enrollment manager must
have the ability to identify organizational issues which inhibit institutions
from helping their students to meet their full potential. Such leaders must
utilize organizational evaluation and assessment tools together with an
understanding of organizational change management to optimize both
functions and enrollment to meet institutional missions.
Higher Education
5. Higher Education
Organizational
Diversity &
Transformation
Equity
& Leadership
Enrollment
Management
But by no means is this an exact science. Institutions are as diverse as the
students they serve—and each institution must contend with specific
student needs in a specific organizational culture. Thus, institutional
missions and solutions are customized to help the individual institution
to change and grow to meet the needs of these constituencies.
Higher Education
6. Higher Education
Organizational
Diversity &
Transformation
Equity
& Leadership
Multicultural/
Enrollment
Multilingual Management
Studies
Therefore, enrollment managers working with institutions serving special
populations such as underrepresented minorities, single-gender, international,
multilingual, differently-abled or other non-traditional groups, must be fully
familiar with the issues of equity, diversity, social justice, and the independent
variables which impact the institution, educational policy, student body, and
community.
Higher Education
7. Higher Education
Organizational
Diversity &
Transformation
Equity
& Leadership
Multicultural/
Enrollment
Multilingual Management
Studies
These interrelated issues require that some enrollment managers
intentionally develop a range of cultural competencies to inform the use
of strategic planning to benefit institutions serving diverse populations…
Higher Education
8. Higher Education
Organizational
Diversity &
Transformation
Equity
& Leadership
Multicultural/
Enrollment
Multilingual Management
Studies Managing
Diverse
Enrollments
…so that they are adequately prepared to navigate these issues to the
greatest benefit of the institution and the students whom they serve.
Higher Education
9. SUMMARY:
By intentionally selecting
coursework revolving around Enrollment
these topics, it would permit me Management
to develop cultural competency
useful to university enrollment
development. It is my belief that
I will be positioning myself to
become an administrator able to
lead enrollment development
within institutions which have
special concerns. Further, I will
become a contributor to the field Multicultural
Managing
Diverse
Organizational
of research a wide range of /Multilingual Transformation
diversity-related issues in Studies & Leadership
enrollment management which
will benefit the needs of
Enrollments
marginalized institutions of
higher education forced to
compete in an increasingly
globalized society and
mainstream institutions to serve
students from all backgrounds.
Diversity &
Equity
