In episode 27, Jay talks with Andy Woodall, Executive Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Shenandoah University about successfully bringing faculty into the recruitment process. None of us doubt the high impact of members of a college community engaging prospective students. Most enrollment leaders will build relationships with coaches, staff, and faculty in order to fully connect with prospects, and set their college ahead of other options a student may be considering. Yet, getting faculty to commit to recruiting isn't as simple as it might sound. We talk about the importance of drawing faculty into the recruiting business, the key to bringing university leadership into the conversation, showing results and appreciation to faculty at the end of the recruitment cycle, and how to help the faculty to see that they are, in fact, caring for and shaping their future classrooms. As the old saying goes, if it takes a whole village to raise a child, it takes a whole university to recruit a one. 

About our Guest
Andy Woodall is the Assistant Vice-President for Recruitment and Admissions and Shenandoah University where he manages the coordination of all the University's recruitment efforts for First-Year, Transfer, and Graduate students. Andy stresses the importance of authenticity in how University's represent themselves to prospective students so that prospective students and their families can make the most informed college choice. This philosophy, along with centering the recruitment work around putting the needs of the student first has resulted in several record-breaking incoming classes at Shenandoah University. Outside of his work with students, you can usually find Andy close to or on a soccer field (either watching or coaching his two daughters) or in his kitchen at home, likely making too big of a mess (much to his wife's chagrin), but having a lot of fun doing it.