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Dr. Rodney Parks

Registrar, Director of Summer College, Assistant Vice President at Elon University

Dr. Parks is the University Registrar, Director of Elon’s Summer College and Assistant Vice President at Elon University where he has served since 2013. Dr. Parks also serves as an Assistant Professor of Health and Wellness, teaching two to three courses per year, including a core capstone. Parks earned his Ph.D. in Counseling and Student Personnel Services from the University of Georgia.
 
Since joining Elon, Dr. Parks has been a prolific author, publishing more than 80 articles and book chapters. Some of his work appears in current AACRAO book publications including: Helping Veterans Succeed: A Resource for Higher Education Administrators, Academic record Transcript Guide, The Displaced Student, Mentorship in Higher Education: Practical Advice and Leadership Theories and College Admissions: Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Student Body. Dr. Parks is also well known in higher education for his work to expand the academic record. In 2015, he led Elon’s initiative to turn Elon’s co-curricular transcript into visual infographics, better illustrating a picture of the comprehensive 4-year student experience. As a result of his early work to expand student records, Elon was part of the AACRAO/NASPA grant sponsored by the Lumina Foundation.
 
As the director or Elon’s Summer College, Dr. Parks has used data driven marketing strategies to increase Elon’s summer revenue from 1.8 million to over 6.2 million in the last five years. This accomplishment is particular noteworthy, given decreases in summer revenue nationally. Course efficiencies during Elon Summer College routinely hit the 90th percentile.
 

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Angé Peterson

Angé Peterson is a former Associate Vice President at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Regional Campuses. In this role, she supervised transfer enrollment services, marketing and partnership outreach for the 10 regional campuses and locations in the central Florida region. Additionally, Angé had responsibility for partnerships internal to UCF administration relating to admission, financial assistance, registrar’s functions, transfer transitions plus marketing; and externally she provided leadership in partnering with community and state colleges serving the central Florida region. Under the Central Florida Higher Education Consortium, her responsibilities included guaranteed admission for academically qualified transfer students seeking a Baccalaureate degree through participation in the DirectConnect to UCF program. The umbrella of the consortium agreement continues to provide solutions that impact access, diversity and student success pathways leading toward degree completion.  This umbrella included working groups in curriculum alignment, data and internal research solutions, resource development, work force initiatives, joint advising and assisted in developing one of the most productive 2+2 programs in the nation. She has consulted within the field of higher education colleges and universities for ten years and currently is an AACRAO senior consultant. 

Angé has been involved in AACRAO leadership for most of her higher education professional life, first as chair of the Admission and Enrollment Management committee, Vice President for Admission and Enrollment Management followed by selection as AACRAO’s President-elect, President and Past President from 2005 – 2007.  She has actively participated in the SEM conference for 25 years and prioritized the development of the AACRAO Transfer Conference as a presidential goal.  Prior to joining UCF, Angé was at Pittsburg State University. She has presented at a many national conferences including AACRAO, SEM, AACRAO Transfer, First Year Experience, NACADA, GPACAC, NAFSA, ACT EM, KACRAO, Transfer Institute, Noel-Levitz Retention, STEMtech (League for Innovation), Excelecia in Education, plus numerous state and regional EM workshops. She is one of the authors of the “Practical Guide for Strategic Enrollment Management Planning”, EDI, Nov. 2007. Ange’s latest publication is posted online, “Student Access and Completion: A Regional Strategic Enrollment Partnership” Jan. 2014.

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Michele Sandlin

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Senior Consultant, AACRAO Consulting

About
Michele Sandlin previously served as the Director of Admissions and the Campus Visitors Center at Oregon State University for 15 years, during which university enrollment grew by over 67%, while achieving additional goals for diversity and academic preparedness of incoming students. Ms. Sandlin’s career has also included successful tenures at Pacific University, Portland State University, the University of Oregon, and Western State Colorado University. 

During her 42 years as a higher education professional, Ms. Sandlin has become well known for her industry-leading expertise in holistic admissions, Strategic Enrollment Management, admissions operations, staff and space management, 2yr/4yr campus partnerships, branch campus development, transfer policy and practices, accreditation compliance review, articulation process, policy and agreements, decentralized-centralized structural realignment, and graduate/professional school and international admissions. She has served in state, regional and national leadership positions with AACRAO and with the International Baccalaureate Program, having served as the IB Chair for the Americas College and University Recognition Board. 
 

She has served in state, regional and national leadership positions with AACRAO/PACRAO/OrACRAO and with the International Baccalaureate Program, and has received numerous professional recognitions, most notable:

• Received the first AACRAO National Tom Bilger Citation for Service Award. 2006.

• Was Oregon ACRAO President, 2003-4, served on numerous committees, Local Arrangements (LAC) and Program Chair positions. 

• PACRAO President, 2006-2007, served on numerous committees, LAC and Program Chair positions. 

• Awarded PACRAO Honorary lifetime membership in 2018.

• AACRAO Board Member, Vice President, Admissions and Enrollment Management, 2007-2010, served on numerous committees, lead chair for development of Admissions Management training course, lead presenter for AACRAO on the Road, served three years as program chair Admissions and Enrollment Management group 1.

• International Baccalaureate Association, North & South Americas, Chair, 2008-2011.

• State of Oregon International Baccalaureate Alignment Task Force, Lead role.  2009-2010.

• State of Oregon, Oregon Transfer Days Task Force, Inaugural Chair.  2007-2009

She has written for numerous publications, articles, chapters, has a recent book on Holistic Admissions, presented webinars and at conferences and meetings at the state, regional, national, and global level for more than 30 years.  

Ms. Sandlin completed her Master of Science degree in Higher Education Policy Foundations and Administration at Portland State University, Oregon and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Sciences from Colorado State University.  She is a native of the Colorado Rockies, but she identifies as an Oregonian and calls Oregon home where she has lived since 1985. 

 

 

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Dr. Clayton Smith

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Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor

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Dr. Clayton Smith is Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor. He previously served 12 years as Vice-Provost and Dean of Students. Over the course of his career, Dr. Smith has amassed significant knowledge and expertise in enrollment management. Dr. Smith previously held senior enrollment management positions at the State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill, Tallahassee Community College in Florida, and the University of Maine at Augusta.

Known for his focus on comparative enrollment management, Dr. Smith has performed collaborative research into the distinctive qualities of enrollment management in the United States and Canada that has allowed educational leaders from both countries to compare and share best practices. In 2011, Dr. Smith co-edited SEM in Canada: Promoting Student and Institutional Success in Canadian Colleges and Universities. His recent research focuses on the faculty role in SEM, how change management impacts successful SEM institutional implementation, and Canadian enrollment leaders’ reflections on the effectiveness of SEM in Canada.

Dr. Smith is a leader in the field of enrollment management, with special emphasis on the areas of institutional SEM readiness, implementing SEM, enrollment planning, change management, international student affairs, and student success and retention. He has worked at a variety of higher education institutions, including residential and commuter, rural and urban, and two-year and four-year schools, and has consulted for AACRAO Consulting at more than thirty colleges and universities.

Dr. Smith holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern Maine, an M.A. in Political Science from Drew University, an M.P.A. in Public Administration from the University of Maine, and an Ed.D. in Higher Education from Florida State University. He is a senior consultant with AACRAO Consulting and currently serves as AACRAO’s Strategic Enrollment Management Conference director and Editor-in-Chief of Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly.

Canadian Enrollment Leaders’ Reflections on the Effectiveness of SEM 

Faculty Involvement in Strategic Enrollment Management at North American Postsecondary Educational Institutions

The Role of Organizational Change Management in Successful Strategic Enrollment Management Implementation

Putting the Puzzle Together: International Student Success

International Student Support Services at Ontario Universities

The Intersection of SEM and Equity: A Systematized Literature Review

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Cassandra Moore

Director of Admissions and Enrollment Development, Anne Arundel Community College

 

Bio:

Cassandra Moore is the Director of Admissions and Enrollment Development at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. She has worked at every level of college admissions, but her passion for first-generation college students led her to community colleges.  She has been an active member of AACRAO, and currently serves on its Board of Directors as the Vice President of Access and Equity.

Understanding that lack of opportunity and access is a social justice issue, she has focused her efforts on improving access, equity and inclusion in higher education and in her community. She is a member of Anne Arundel Women Giving Together, a women’s giving circle that awards grants up to $20,000 to non-profits who improve the lives of women, children and families. She has served on the Anne Arundel County Partnership for Children, Youth and Families Disconnected Youth Workgroup, focused on 16-24 years old residents, who are not connected to school, family or work. Cassandra also serves on two Signature Program Integrated Community Stakeholder Teams (ICST) with business and political leaders focused on providing co-curricular workforce opportunities to high school students. She has served as a scholarship application reviewer for the Gates Millennium Scholars Foundation, and the United Negro College Fund STEM Scholars program. Her commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion has been recognized by her college and community. 

She is the recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Zeitgeist Award, Diversity Champion Award,  YWCA Tribute to Women of Color Service to Youth Award, Minority Access, Inc. Role Model for Recruitment Award, and the Northern Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce Education in Excellence Award.  Previous experience includes the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Central Michigan University, and the Community College of Baltimore College. She is a proud wife, mother, and daughter of educators.

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Haley Johnson

Account Executive with College Scheduler by Civitas Learning

CSU, Chico graduate with BS Business emphasis in Marketing. 

Was a Resident Advisor junior and senior year, loved being part of the student journey and building community in the residence halls.

Went to college with Founder of College Scheduler, Robert Strazzarino and started with College Scheduler in November 2009.

Enjoys partnering with higher ed institutions and improving the most important transaction of the student experience - registration!

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Juan Gilberto Garcia Jr.

Associate VP & University Registrar, Texas A&M International University

Garcia has been associated with the University for 10 years, was most recently TAMIU’s director of Recruitment and School Relations. A TAMIU graduate, he holds his BBA with a concentration in Finance and his MBA in International Business from TAMIU. 

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Karin Fischer

Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education & Research Associate, UC Berkeley

Karin Fischer is a journalist who focuses on higher education and a research associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley. She focuses on international education, including American colleges’ activities overseas, the globalization of the college experience, and study abroad. Her extensive reporting on international-student recruitment and the experience of foreign students in the United States has been collected in a special publication, Chinese Journey: Student Migrations, Family Dreams and What Happens Next. She also writes about U.S. higher education policy and the relationship between colleges and the economy. Her work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, EdSource, the Washington Monthly, and University World News. She publishes a weekly newsletter on global education, latitude(s).

Ms. Fischer is a recipient of the East-West Center’s Jefferson Fellowship for reporting in Asia and the International Reporting Project fellowship. Her work has been honored by the Education Writers Association, the National Press Foundation, and the Poynter Institute. She is a graduate of Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Annabel Lawday

International Portfolio Manager, International BTEC Education, Pearson

Annabel Lawday is currently an International Portfolio Manager for International BTEC Education at Pearson. Annabel works within the team to support product development, as well as supporting our regional Pearson teams globally. The primary focus is the ongoing support to enhance and expand the BTEC international qualifications coverage, through partnerships and opportunities within employers, governments and educational centres in over 65 countries.

Prior to this role at Pearson, Annabel worked within financial services and accountancy education, optimizing client relationships and managing a team to oversee education programmes run in the UK and Europe. Annabel’s career in education begun a number of years ago in digital education companies in international teams, in roles including key account management and client focused roles.

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Basirat Agboola

Progression & Recognition Manager, International General Qualifications, Pearson

Basirat drives relationships with universities, diploma evaluators and other government and global education partners to enhance the progression of Pearson Edexcel students from over 80 countries into higher education around the world.

 Before joining Pearson, Basirat developed and enhanced international partnerships and scholarship activity within transnational education (TNE), student and staff exchange, research and work abroad and international student recruitment programmes at the University of Greenwich and King's College London.

 Basirat holds an MA in Education and International Development from University College London (UCL) and is a Regional Assessor for the Chevening UK Master’s Scholarship scheme. She is an active Inclusion, Access and Success committee member of the International Association for College Admission Counseling (International ACAC).

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Wade Tomlinson

Partnerships Manager, Pearson Higher Education Qualifications

Wade Tomlinson is currently the Stakeholder Manager for higher education institutions and ministries at Pearson Higher Education Qualifications (HEQ) division. Wade works with organisations across the globe, gaining recognition for Pearson BTEC qualifications, while securing degree pathways for BTEC Higher National learners in over 65 countries.

Prior to his current role at Pearson, Wade worked with UniQuest, an organisation that works in partnership with Higher Education institutions, optimizing student recruitment and conversion in the UK and US.

Wade started his career in education in 2012 as President of Roehampton Students’ Union. Since then he has worked in Public and Private Higher Education Institutions across multiple roles, including partnership management, outreach, international enrolment & admissions.

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Michael V. Reilly

Executive Director

Mike Reilly served as the Executive Director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) 2012 - 2021.

Prior to coming to AACRAO he served as the Executive Director for the Council of Presidents, an association of the six public baccalaureate degree granting institutions in the state of Washington.  He has 25 years of experience in university administration, admissions and enrollment management, including having been the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management at both Central Washington University and Humboldt State University.  He recently served on the American Council on Education Board of Directors and is currently on the American Council on Education’s Commission on Education Attainment and Innovation and the College Board’s Access and Diversity Collaborative Advisory Council.  He is a frequent writer and speaker on public policy matters impacting higher education.

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David L. Roy

Director, Academic Relations, Competitive Admissions, & Access and Diversity

David L. Roy serves as the Director for Academic Relations, Competitive Admissions, and Access and Diversity in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at The Ohio State University. In this role, he is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the application review process for domestic and international new first year applicants for Ohio State University’s Columbus campus. He also provides senior leadership for the strategic partnership between Undergraduate Admissions and Ohio State’s academic colleges. In addition, David direct efforts to increase the recruitment and enrollment of underrepresented minorities, first-generation and low-income students as well the training and development of Admissions staff specific to access and diversity best-practices.   

Prior to his current role, he served as Director for the Diversity Services Office in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State.  In that role, he directed recruitment, orientation and advising activities for minority students as well as initiatives designed to assist with minority student retention and graduation.  

David has twenty years of higher education experience in enrollment management, diversity, advising, recruitment and retention. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences and Sociology from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, a master’s degree in African American and African Studies from The Ohio State University. He is an alum of The College Board’s Enrollment Leadership Academy. 

 

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Kristi Wold-McCormick

Assistant Vice Provost & University Registrar, University of Colorado Boulder

Kristi Wold-McCormick currently serves as Assistant Vice Provost and University Registrar of the University of Colorado Boulder. In her leadership role, she focuses on student data privacy, business process improvement, academic policy, inclusion initiatives, and academic record and enrollment innovation.

Kristi served as Vice President for Records and Academic Services. She has also served on both the Program and Nominations & Elections committees, and recently chaired an AACRAO committee that developed guidance on disciplinary transcript notations.

Prior to joining CU Boulder, Kristi was registrar of North Dakota State University. She also has held various positions in admissions and enrollment management. Kristi earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from NDSU and a Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota.

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Lee H. Melvin

Vice Provost for Enrollment Management

Lee H. Melvin is the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is responsible for leading, developing, articulating and implementing an enrollment management strategy, with the primary vision of maintaining academic momentum and moving UB to higher levels of institutional distinction. Melvin oversees the offices of financial aid, admissions, registrar, marketing and communications and 1Capen Student Services Center. 

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Tom Black

Chief Innovation Office, Paradigm, Inc.

Thomas C. Black’s forty-year career in higher education has included work in various administrative and registrar roles in academic and student affairs at Stanford, U Chicago, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and, most recently, Johns Hopkins University. Tom is currently the Chief Innovation Officer of Paradigm, Inc. Throughout his career, Tom has implemented student information systems, experimented with data standards, and developed new digital credentials that eventually became the norm within higher education. Most recently, he has worked to prototype the CLR (comprehensive learner record) with an emphasis on helping learners understand what knowledge, skills and abilities they are acquiring, and developing narratives that enable them to become successful in the marketplace.  Accordingly, he's turned his attention toward increasing the exchange of learner data using national standards while ensuring only authorized access to improve learner mobility in the marketplace. 

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Ibram X. Kendi

Professor and Founding Director, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped From The Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist. His relentless and passionate research puts into question the notion of a post-racial society and opens readers' and audiences' eyes to the reality of racism in America today. Kendi's lectures are sharp, informative, and hopeful, serving as a strong platform for any institution's discussions on racial discrimination.
 
When Dr. Ibram X. Kendi won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016 for a book about the history of racist ideas in America, some people felt a disconnect. Emerging from eight years of leadership under an African-American president, a narrative was building in America about the emergence of a post-racial society, colorblind to race and valuing merit over skin color. Kendi challenges this notion in his New York Times-bestselling book Stamped from the Beginning, taking an expansive view on race and racist ideas that spans from 15th century Europe until modern day America. Kendi’s insight on racist structures are the focus of his latest book, How to Be an Antiracist, which empowers readers and audiences to not only recognize the pervasive influence of racism and racist ideas, but to actively participate in dismantling it.
 
Kendi embarked on the research for his book under the assumption that the major producers of racist ideas were hateful and ignorant. And that borne from racist ideas were racist policies like slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration. But as Kendi dug deeper and contextualized motives, he began to gain a new understanding of the cause and effect actually at play. He soon discovered that political, economic, and cultural self-interest are behind the creation of racist policies and these policies in turn create the racist ideas that rationalize the deep inequities in everything from wealth to health.
 
Ibram X. Kendi is Professor and Founding Director, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is a frequent public speaker who speaks with great expertise and compassion about the findings of his book and how they can fit into the national conversation on racial and social justice.
 
Kendi has received research fellowships, grants, and visiting appointments from a variety of universities, foundations, professional associations, and libraries, including the American Historical Association, Library of Congress, National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation, Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Brown University, Princeton University, Duke University, University of Chicago, and UCLA. Most recently, he was named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow for his work.

 

In addition to winning the National Book Award, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas was also named a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and nominated for the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Nonfiction. The book was featured on many Best Books of 2016 lists, including in the Boston Globe, Kirkus, The Washington Post, The Root, Chicago Review of Books, and Buzzfeed.
 

 

 

 

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Joel Zeff

Author and Humorist

Joel Zeff creates energy. He is a dynamic speaker, improvisational humorist and author. His interactive performances invite members of the audience to participate in hilarious improvisational exercises that illustrate Joel's central message: That organizations and individuals should CELEBRATE every day successes to increase collaboration, productivity, passion and innovation.
 
Since 1997, Joel has inspired audiences from Wells Fargo to Samsung to KPMG and even the IRS. Yes, the IRS. Joel is a masterful public speaker and a nationally renowned motivator, lifelong humorist and improvisational actor.
 
His career is a search for fun and passion. He quickly realized the importance of both at his first jobs delivering the hometown newspaper and cleaning up trash at a suburban movie theater.
 
He started his professional career as a newspaper journalist and public relations executive. In 1994, Joel went out on his own as corporate communications specialist. He helped clients with their employee communications, media relations, strategy and customer marketing. Throughout the consulting process, Joel realized his clients – many of them high-level technology and telecommunications firms – needed more than marketing and public relations strategy. Many of his clients’ employees were starving for fun, passion and new perspective on finding success.
 
At the time, Joel was having fun on the weekends as a comedian. Through friends, he discovered improvisational comedy. One of his clients (a large technology company) knew Joel performed comedy on the weekend. The client asked him to play some improvisational games before dinner for a group of high level executives. He brought a fellow comedian and a corporate speaking career was born.
 
He connects to his audience with humor that has them laughing so uncontrollably that their mascara runs, their cheeks hurt, and their bellies ache. And he doesn't do it alone. Volunteers from the audience join him on stage and play an integral role in an improvisation game in front of hundreds or thousands of people—something the audience members have never done. He expects nothing less than their success. He expects the volunteers to focus and work together as a team; communicate effectively; positively support each other; and take responsibility.
 
Joel makes his audience laugh so hard that they forget about the corporate nonsense of conference calls, "strategic deliverables," PowerPoint presentations with upside-down triangles, or "paradigm shifts in a cross-functional organization." Make the Right Choice is conversational, funny, and very informative. Yes, Joel will make you laugh, but he'll also make you think. This presentation delivers a combination of inspiration, essential business knowledge, and significant ideas to help audience members reconnect with their own passion and success.
 
As discussed in his book, Make the Right Choice, Joel believes that we all encounter choices in our careers. We always have the opportunity to make the right choice to live a more creative, passionate, and productive life. How do you “make the right choice”? You can choose to provide opportunity. You can choose to provide positive support. And along the way, you can choose to have fun. It’s really that simple. Joel teaches us just how easy it is to make these choices.
 

When he is not speaking, Joel expresses his creativity as an actor, writer and comedian. He started performing professionally in 1992. In Dallas, he was co-host of The Movie Zone on UPN 21. He has appeared in dozens of commercials for numerous clients, including the Dallas Cowboys, Harrah's Casino, Mydiscountbroker.com, Time Warner Cable, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Eagle Country Markets, and Extraco Bank. He has appeared in hundreds of corporate videos and has appeared on shows from CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch to the Fox Network’s Fox and Friends Weekend. His articles have been featured in The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, The Kansas City Star, among many other mainstream media outlets.

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Paul C. McCarty

Registrar, Washington College

Paul McCarty is the Registrar at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. He began his career in higher education at the University of Denver where he was the Associate Registrar for Academic Services.

He has been involved in AACRAO both nationally and regionally--previously serving as on the board of directors and as newsletter editor for the Rocky Mountain Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers (RMACRAO).

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James Miller

Role: Associate Provost and Dean of Admission, Seattle University

James Miller is the Associate Provost & Dean of Admission at Seattle University. James has focused his career on building successful, highly efficient student-centered recruitment strategies and tactical approaches that help institutions meet their enrollment and revenue goals. He has expertise in the development and management of complex marketing plans, national recruitment strategies, enrollment data management and analysis, admissions technology, and process redesign. He brings a passion for the inclusive mission of higher education and the development of recruitment and enrollment plans that open the doors as widely as possible to those who are traditionally underrepresented in higher education. 

He has worked in the admissions profession for 16 years and has served at Oregon State University, University of San Francisco, University of Puget Sound, and University of Washington Bothell. He is is a consultant for AACRAO Consulting, the consulting arm for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, a recognized leader in Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) consulting.

He has served in leadership positions in state, regional and national professional organizations; he is a Past-President of the Pacific Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (PACRAO) and the Admissions Practices Chair of the Pacific Northwest Association for College Admissions Counseling (PNACAC). James created PACRAO’s Leadership Development Institute, an award-winning leadership training program for early career high potential leaders.

James received Bachelors’ Degrees in Economics and Psychology from Oregon State University.