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- Dr. Wendy Kilgore
Director of Research, AACRAO

August 2017 - Defining the Chief Enrollment Management Officer career | 08/30/2017

July 2017 - Freelancing as a “surrogate” student, Parents Completing College Applications for Many, and more | 07/27/2017

June 2017 - How to get students to eat their vegetables | 06/29/2017

May 2017 - Announcing AACRAO Research Grants | 05/26/2017

April 2017 - New Research Advisory Board Member | 04/27/2017

March 2017 - A Call for 60-Second Survey Ideas | 03/27/2017

February 2017 - Introducing AACRAO's new Research Intern | 02/28/2017

January 2017 - A Perspective on Student Records Management | 01/30/2017

December 2016 - AACRAO's Policy Library | 12/21/2016

November 2016 - Michelle Obama's "Up Next" Project | 11/21/2016

October 2016 - DOL Overtime Rule and Your Campus | 10/21/2016

September 2016 - Degree Revocation | 09/26/2016

August 2016 - VA reporting of graduation rates for military connected students | 08/29/2016

July 2016 - Student persistence, Emergency financial support, Cost of attendance, and more | 07/27/2016

June 2016 - Separation of Official Transcripts by Level and AACRAO Research Initiatives | 06/08/2016

May 2016 - Members Using AACRAO Research Resources | 05/23/2016

April 2016 - Lessons learned from AACRAO's 60-Second Surveys | 04/13/2016

March 2016 - Building a SEM Analytics Reporting Portfolio | 03/10/2016

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Dr. Wendy Kilgore
Wendy Kilgore serves as the Director of Research and Senior Consultant for AACRAO with more than 20 years of experience as a higher education administrator, researcher, and consultant in the US and Canada. She brings expertise in recruitment, admissions, financial aid, academic advisement, curriculum support, registration, records management, veterans’ education services, technology, organizational restructuring, student-centric business practice development, policy development, and managing comprehensive collaboration to support enrolment efforts.

Prior to her full-time work with AACRAO, Dr. Kilgore served as state dean of enrollment services for the Colorado Community College system and the director of admissions and registrar for the Pima County Community College District. Her professional and consulting experience spans a wide array of institutions, including large public universities, small private colleges, small private, faith-based colleges, private for-profit institutions, technical colleges, a large two-year multi-campus community college district, and a state community college system consisting of 13 colleges.

Dr. Kilgore’s strategic consulting experience has included: records retention and disposition reviews, comprehensive student service evaluations; registrar and admission office reviews; business process analysis, mapping, and re-engineering; policy reviews; student service division mission; values and goals development; recommendations for organizational restructuring; technology requirements assessment and documentation, project charter and project plan development and SEM plan development.