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Andrea J Lehmacher

Managing Director of Marketing Strategy at Elgin Community College

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2016 SEM-EP Graduate

Over 20 years in higher education with experience in public two-year and private four-year institutions. Diverse leadership experience in admissions, leading all aspects of the marketing function, establishing marketing and digital strategies, brand development and management, institutional website redesign, assessment, and creating high performing teams. Expertise in Admissions and Enrollment Management, Marketing Strategy, Leadership, Holistic and Systemic Thinking, Collaborative Decision Making, Team Building and Development

Capstone Project - "Elgin Community College Career and Technical Education Mini Enrollment Campaign Fall 2016" was a pilot opportunity to create a targeted and intentional marketing campaign using Perkins grant funding to impact fall 2016 enrollment in career and technical education programs. A total of six newly enrolled students can be directly connected to campaign analytics; however, there was also a 26% increase in new applications and a 13% increase in new student CTE enrollment for fall 2016.

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Erin Crum

Retired University Registrar at University of California-Davis

2015 SEM-EP Inaugural Graduate

13 Years of Higher Education Experience in Academic and Enrollment Management at a Public Institution with an enrollment in excess of 10,000 students. Expertise in Records and Registration, Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, Leadership, and Research.

Capstone Project - "Enrollment Management Data" explored key data points associated with informing enrollment decisions on college campuses.

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John Soltice

Asst. Director, International Data Management, Analysis, & Rankings, University of Alberta

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2015 SEM-EP Inaugural Graduate

Diverse experience in the realm of international higher education, including the development of international student marketing and recruitment strategies, admissions policy and processes, scholarship strategies, statistical analyses, database design, and enrollment management. Past experience in ESL programs and study abroad programs.

Capstone Project - "In-Country Recruitment Activities Effect on Enrollment" study found that when recruitment staff were able to connect with prospective students in their country, the University saw a growing return on investment. In comparison with non-connected students (over the same 12 countries), the connected group showed growth in new intake over three successive years, as well as higher yield rates, first-year success rates, first-year GPAs, and the same or higher entry GPAs.

"Measuring the Effect of In-Country Recruitment Activities on Future International Enrollment at a Large Canadian University" -John G. Soltice, Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, Volume 4, Number 2, 2016.

Review of: Strategic Enrollment Planning: A Dynamic Collaboration

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Sarah McAbee

VP for Enrollment Management and Student Support Services at Athens State University

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2015 SEM-EP Inaugural Graduate

Past Higher Education experience as State Auditor of Higher Ed Institutions and Financial Aid Director.

Currently serving as Vice President for Enrollment and Student Support Services, leading a team responsible for recruiting, enrolling advising, retaining and providing funding for new and continuing students. In addition, her team provides student services at off campus centers and student activities and career development opportunities at the main campus.

Capstone Project -"Athens State University Communication Study of Retention Outreach Methods​" piloted a study of email messaging strategies for stop out students at Athens State University. Study achieved an 11% return to degree work.

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Arturo Montiel

Campus Administrator at South Texas College-Starr County Campus

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2015 SEM-EP Inaugural Graduate

Experience in higher education as faculty and program chairperson with duties including curriculum and program development for student success. Currently serving as campus administrator with duties including program development, community partnerships, facility management, and enrollment management.

Capstone Project - "A Campus Role for Retention" examined the current trends related to retention on community college campuses, with a specific focus on first-generation students in the south Texas region.

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Rob Garrett

Enrollment Services Managing Director at Brigham Young University - Idaho

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2014 SEM-EP Inaugural Graduate

13 Years of Higher Education Experience in Admissions and Enrollment Management at a Private Institution with an enrollment in excess of 15,000 students, offering over 70 Bachelor's and 18 Associate's degrees. Expertise in Admissions, Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, Leadership, and Research.

Capstone Project - "Pathway Matriculation Rates at Brigham Young University -Idaho" tracked the matriculation rates of students who were engaged in non-degree online programs in Idaho.

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Helen Gonzalez

Senior Applications Business Analyst, Division of Academic and Career Success at FIU

Helen Gonzalez serves as a Senior Applications Business Analyst for the Division of Academic and Career Success. She works closely with the Associate Provost and various units across campus in helping to coordinate technology efforts to help achieve student success at Florida International University (FIU). She has over 20 years of experience working in Information Technology and digital media. Helen has been a state, regional and national conference presenter for conferences such as National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), HEUG Alliance and Florida Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (FACRAO) on multiple occasions. She is a graduate of the inaugural Presidential Leadership Program cohort and the Educational Leadership Enhancement Program (ELEP) 2017-2018 cohort. Helen has also served as the Chair for the Florida Academic Advising Association (FLACADA) as well as the Director of FACRAO’s Institute of Strategic Enrollment Management (FISEM), and is currently serving as FACRAO’s Director of Technology.

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Edward F. Trombley III

Registrar at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Edward F. Trombley III is Registrar at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide.  With more than 25 years of experience in education, he has also served as Senior Operations Manager, Registrar’s Office at Walden University; Registrar at DeVry University in the Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. metro regions; and Dean of Administration at Bryant & Stratton College in central New York.  He currently serves as President for the Florida Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (FACRAO), as Vice President for Topics in Higher Education for the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (SACRAO), and has previously served as a program committee member for AACRAO.

Mr. Trombley has presented at numerous state, regional and national conferences on topics including support of military and veteran students, working with non-traditional students, and collaboration between admissions officers and registrars.  He is a contributing author to AACRAO publications including The Transfer Handbook: Promoting Student Success (2015), AACRAO Guide to Graduation Ceremonies (2017), AACRAO’s Professional Development Guidelines for Registrars: A Self-Assessment (2018), AACRAO’s Student Records Management: Retention, Disposal, and Archive of Student Records (2019), and AACRAO’s Academic Record and Transfer Guide (2020).  He has also authored or co-authored articles in publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education Headcount Blog, AACRAO’s College and University journal, AACRAO Connect “Field Notes,” and The SACRAO Journal.  Mr. Trombley holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the State University of New York at Oswego. 

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Steven Taylor, D.B.A.

Founder and CEO of Ed2Work, ACE Transfer Task Force Member

Dr. Steven Taylor is the Founder and CEO of Ed2Work and a member of the Transfer Task Force for the American Council on Education.

Deana Williams

Assistant Director

Deana Williams is a graduate of Baylor University and has worked as the Assistant Director and Residency Office at the Graduate and International Admissions Center of the University of Texas at Austin. She collaborates with AACRAO's International Publications Advisory Committee (IPAC) and has participated in numerous workshop and conference presentations for organizations including AACRAO, SACRAO, TACRAO, NAFSA, College Board, NACAC, and the Texas Bar Association.    

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Scott Owzarek

Registrar, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Philip Hunt

Special Assistant to the President and University Registrar, North Dakota State University

Philip Hunt, J.D., LL.M., currently serves as Special Assistant to the President & University Registrar at North Dakota State University where he is responsible for the supervision and operation of the Registration and Records Office. He also coordinates strategic planning for retention and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Dr. Hunt has more than 20 years of higher education experience, Before NDSU, he was the registrar at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He has also held several positions at George Mason University, which included serving as the inaugural director of access and diversity initiatives, compliance officer for FERPA and FOIA, and associate registrar. His experience also includes positions at the NCAA and in secondary education.

Because giving back is important to him, Hunt is very active in his profession where he is a member of the Black Caucus, former Chair of the UMACRAO Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, as well as the Vice President for Leadership and Management Development for the AACRAO Board of Directors.

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Kizzy Morris

University Provost & Chief Academic Officer at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

2020 AACRAO Elections - Nominations and Elections Committee Candidate

Kizzy Morris, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Cheyney University has over 23 years of progressive higher education experience in academic administration, admissions, financial aid, student billing, registrar, placement testing, institutional research, and IT systems coordination. Kizzy’s student-centered philosophy is the driver for her work with different institutions on enrollment services, student success pathways, and employee and faculty professional development.

Throughout her career, Kizzy has been a member and officer of several professional organizations, often presenting at conferences throughout the US on topics such as student services, enrollment management, financial aid, student information systems and career development. With AACRAO, she serves on the Black Caucus and the Professional & Staff Development Committee and has co-taught Registrar 101. Her current research emphasis is on mentorship where she is leading the effort to create a Mentorship Toolkit as part of a statewide diversity consortium focused on education.

Kizzy holds a Master's degree in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from Bellevue University, where she graduated with honors. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Leadership in Higher Education from Capella University.

If elected, she intends to work with the Nominations and Elections Committee to establish and promote different membership outreach efforts that will encourage participation in the Association, and ensure that your membership voice is heard and meaningful through representation of officers. 

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Drew Carlisle

Assistant Director, EDGE Development

Research & Policy Division

Originally from Nashville, TN and always willing to tell you some stories on a long bike ride, Drew received his Bachelors of Arts in International Relations and in French from Allegheny College. Since 2013, Drew has worked in multiple areas of AACRAO, spending time in the Membership Department and collaborating with Publications before contributing to EDGE. Blessed to work on something representing the intersection of personal and professional curiosities, Drew enjoys highlighting pathways of students along their own personal journeys and sharing and learning more about global education systems.

Drew's Role at AACRAO

Drew provides customer service, refines and standardizes EDGE content, and manages projects that anchor AACRAO EDGE's position as an authoritative guide on comparative international education from a US perspective.

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Liesl A. Fowler

Registrar / Assistant Dean, Augustana College

Liesl has 28 years of administrative experience and is a long-standing member of AACRAO.  She currently serves as Assistant Dean and College Registrar for Augustana College. Areas of expertise include program expansion, budgeting, technology implementation, and change management, among others. Liesl received her institution's esteemed administrative recognition award for successfully leading the administrative team that adopted a new student information system. In fall 2019 after four years of planning and 50 years on trimesters, Augustana launched a semester curriculum, an effort enacted by the conversion and implementation team Liesl led.  

Augustana College’s Withdrawal Process Improvement Initiative

Dr. Nino Chinchaladze

Dr. Nino Chinchaladze is the Executive Director of the Foundation “Center for International Education” (CIE), whose mission is to support internationalization of higher education and student mobility between the United States/Europe and Georgia. CIE is part of EducationUSA, with a comprehensive EducationUSA Student Advising Center in Tbilisi and four regional branches located at state universities throughout the country. Nino has Ph.D. in History. She was Deputy Director for the Open Society Georgia Foundation from 1997 to 2006. She has been a member of boards for Higher Education Authorization and accreditation of Georgian higher education institutions. In addition, she was a board member for Millenium Challenge Account Georgia and recently a board member of the Millenium foundation.  She is also a board member of EPPM (Education Policy, Planning and Management Institute) and a member of the State scholarships commission.  Nino participates in international conferences and seminars, including NAFSA, EAIE, ACA, and AACRAO.  Nino is an active member of Georgian educational community.

Dr. Hasan Huseynli

Dr. Hasan Huseynli currently teaches Physics at the ADA School in Baku, Azerbaijan. From 2014 to 2016 he was an expert consultant for the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) in Azerbaijan.  Hasan is founder and chairman of the “Intelligent Citizen” Enlightenment Center Public Union. Prior to his work there he was director of the Ganja Branch of the Open Society Institute –Assistant Foundation, director of the Ganja Education Information Center (which for more than 10 years was in the EducationUSA network), and a consultant in the Office of the President of Azerbaijan. Hasan got his Ph.D. in Physics in 1987 from the Moscow Institute of Electron Technique and was head of the Physics laboratory at Ganja State Agrarian University.  In 1996 he was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and in 2006 a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Hasan has participated in several international education conferences in the United States, including as a presenter at AACRAO Annual Meetings.

 

Ann Koenig

Associate Director, International, AACRAO (retired)

Ann M. Koenig is a former AACRAO Associate Director. Her international education career spanned 33 years, including foreign credential evaluation work in private foreign credential evaluation services, and various positions in admissions, student academic advising, and student records management in a variety of campus settings in the United States and Germany. She has done in-depth research on education in several countries, and is a co-author of the PIER workshop report on Poland (1992), author of the ECE monograph An Overview of the Educational System of Albania (1993), contributor to the NAFSA series A Guide to Educational Systems Around the World, and author or contributor to several AACRAO publications. Ann has designed and presented numerous training sessions, workshops and conference presentations on country educational systems and best practices in international admission and credential evaluation, for AACRAO, NAFSA, EAIE (European Association for International Education) and other US and European organizations. She has served on committees with AACRAO and NAFSA.

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Michelle Blackwell

Manager of Data Partnerships, National Student Clearinghouse Research Center

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Ieva Normantaite

Results Team Leader, Cambridge International

Ieva works in the Results Services team, sending exam scores to schools and students around the world. Ieva’s team also looks after historic scores, helping former students to access their grades for credit at university or for job applications.