The fourth season (FOURTH!!!) begins in just a few days.  We have sixteen dynamic, interesting interviews scheduled revolving around 8 different topics directly related to recruitment and admission.  If you haven't already, subscribe now so you don't miss a single episode.

Sponsored episode: Ardeo Education Solutions

Ardeo Education Services helps admissions offices by addressing the number one concern of most students and families today – student debt. We’ll help you enroll students who are hesitant to attend your institution due to fear of borrowing.

After listening to this week's episode, you can continue the conversation with Ardeo Education by visiting our website at Ardeo.org or emailing [email protected].

Our limited edition partner series features Meghan Cooley, a Higher Ed Marketing Specialist in Rock Island, Illinois and a current client, Omar Correa, Vice President of Strategic Enrollment Management St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Meghan Cooley Consulting helps admissions offices by streamlining, updating, and advancing enrollment marketing strategy. She partners well with all levels of staff, resulting in better and on-time delivery of communications often by supporting overworked staff members. She has an in-depth knowledge of the Slate Deliver module. You'll find her creativity brings new life to marketing efforts and her sense of humor and easygoing nature will inspire the best out of your team.

After listening to this week's episode, you can continue the conversation with Meghan by emailing her at [email protected], connecting on LinkedIn or calling 309-721-6564.

Sponsored episode: Verto Education

Verto Education helps admissions offices by connecting you with qualified, internationally engaged applicants.

Sponsored episode: Loper

After listening to this week's episode, you can continue the conversation with Loper by emailing [email protected]. Loper is a personalized pathing platform that helps students explore their preferences and discover best-fit schools. The average user inputs dozens of criteria on Loper’s mobile platform, enabling admissions teams to automate targeted in-app messages and push notifications to amplify their omnichannel marketing presence.

Sam and his co-founder Eric Menna founded Loper last year with the mission to meet students where they are to help them find the right next step for their education. Bringing students greater transparency into their college search empowers them to make better choices, all with the goal of driving stronger student outcomes.

Personal testimonial from both of your hosts: Mary Napier is one of the kindest, most helpful, and effective executive search consultants operating in the enrollment management space.  In our final episode of the season, "Making the Move", Mary Napier, Founder and Search Consultant at Napier Executive Search in Deland, Florida, guides us through the process of a search, how to prepare yourself, and perhaps most importantly: how to know when you're ready to make the move.  There was too much to fit into the regular season episode, so we bring it to you now to round out our summer session.

Each season, we've brought you a guest a step or two removed from our profession.  We've had a parent, a bakery owner, and now a Director of Residence Life.  As you'll hear in this extended cut, Terry Tumbarello, Director of Residence Life at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, has a lot to say about how colleges and universities can help students become higher education professionals.  There is a lot that we can do better in admissions, and in this extended interview, we have an opportunity to dig deeper.

In our original episode, Dan Savaadra, Founder and President of StriveScan in Chicago, Illinois, shared some thoughts about the future of college fairs.  We had so much left on the (not-literal) cutting room floor, that we knew immediately we'd have to bring you this extended cut.  What happens to college fairs in the next few years is going to impact us all.  As a genuine thought leader on college fairs, there's no better source to predict how this wild ride continues.

When an interview runs long, we have to make edits to fit the format.  This week, we are excited to bring you the extended cut of our interview with Dean Jacoby, Director of College Guidance at Albuquerque Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  In this longer interview, Dean discusses gap year experiences, what the current research says, his own gap year experience, and what colleges can do better for students taking a gap year.  

Whether it's moving in to your first Director role, or moving on from it, the decision on when to make the move is critical.  And difficult.  And not always yours to make.  

Our influencer is Mary Napier, the Founder and Search Consultant at Napier Executive Search in DeLand, Florida.  She discusses how the process works, when she knows someone is ready to make the move, and what you might want to think about when you're considering the move.  Our practitioner is John McGreal, Dean of Enrollment Services at Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee, Wisconsin.  He describes his own journey, and the multiple times he decided he was ready to make the move.

It's an introspective episode, as we prepare to take our summer hiatus.