Diane Walleser, Vice President of Enrollment Management, has been Madison Area Technical College’s “Champion of the Student Experience” since 2005, helping her two-year institution embrace the SEM culture. Under her guidance and leadership, her institution was able to build and implement a comprehensive SEM plan. A number of new initiatives were implemented through the reallocation of divisional resources and the use of technology to deliver basic services. The president of Madison Area Technical College has noted Diane’s creativity, tenacity and management skills--all keys to successful SEM leadership.
At this year’s AACRAO SEM Conference, AACRAO honored Walleser's hard work with the SEM Award of Excellence (SAE). The SAE is a peer-review awards program that recognizes outstanding achievement and visionary leadership in strategic enrollment management. Like Walleser, all SAE recipients are exemplary SEM professionals who make a significant contribution to their institution in achieving SEM goals, establishing benchmarks and models for SEM practice, promoting the core values of student access and success within SEM, and contributing to the ongoing development of the SEM profession.
“AACRAO has always set the bar and raised the standards for innovative service and processes for SEM professionals," Walleser said after receiving the award. "What an honor to receive this award from the very people that I have emulated and learned from. It is, also, gratifying to play a role in the work of this leading organization that is so committed to advancing student access and success.”
AACRAO congratulates Diane Walleser for her outstanding contributions to SEM both through her hard work at Madison Area Technical College and her committment to the profession.