The Enrollment Spectrum Podcast

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How Enrollment Leaders Can Think Like Rocket Scientists Oct 29, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Ozan Varol. Ozan is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and author. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, he learned English as a second language and moved to the United States by himself at 17 to attend Cornell University and major in astrophysics.

While there, he served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers project that sent two rovers–Spirit and Opportunity–to Mars. He built stuff that went to the red planet and wrote code that snaps photos of the Martian surface.

Ozan is the author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life and recently spoke with Heather Hoerle, EMA's Executive Director and CEO at the opening of our online annual conference.

Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions Sep 15, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Jeff Selingo. Jeff has written about higher education for two decades. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, a contributor to The Atlantic and the Washington Post, and a special advisor at Arizona State University. Jeff was a keynote speaker at our annual conference last fall and was a guest on the podcast back in episode 59.

Jeff's new book Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions comes out on September 15.

Fall Reopening: A Multi-Layered Approach at Avenues: The World School Sep 03, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Matt Lai and Dave Buckwald from Avenues: The World School.

Matt is the Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management at Avenues Silicon Valley (CA). Prior to joining Avenues, Matt spent 14 years at Woodside Priory School (CA) in a number of capacities, including Director of Admissions & Financial Aid, Dean of Students, Dean of Residential Life, and a teacher and coach. Matt is also an EMA trustee.

Dave is Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management at Avenue, The World School in New York. With 15 years of experience in highly selective college admissions, Dave joined Avenues in the summer of 2018. Most recently, Dave served as a director in the undergraduate admission office at Columbia University.

Fall Reopening: An All Remote Approach at Stoneleigh-Burnham School Aug 21, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Kristen Mariotti. Kristen is the Assistant Head of School for Enrollment at Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Massachusetts and has nearly 20 years of experience in admissions and enrollment management at independent schools, colleges, and universities.

We invited Kristen to speak with us on the podcast as a part of our ongoing series exploring how schools are planning to reopen in the fall.

Fall Reopening: A Hybrid Approach at Tampa Prep Aug 17, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Kevin Plummer. Kevin became the seventh Head of Tampa Preparatory School in July 2007.

Kevin is deeply committed to independent schools and serves as Vice President of the Florida Council of Independent Schools, is a member of the Bay Area Association of Independent Schools, and served as their President in 2009-2010, and of course as board chair of EMA's Board of Trustee.

We were also lucky enough to have Kevin join our online Heads Institute as a cohort leader. We've invited Kevin to speak with us today as a part of our series exploring how schools are planning to reopen in the fall.

Bennett Labs: Innovation With the Intent to Share Aug 13, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kelly Page. Kelly is the director of Bennett Labs at Bennett Day School in Chicago. She is a social and digital innovator, entrepreneur, educator, and learning consultant with a Ph.D. in the Psychology of Web Knowledge and an obsession with social digital storytelling. She has over 18 years of experience working at the intersection of social innovation, and social design for startups, universities, schools, school districts, and Fortune 500 companies.

Fall Reopening: An In-Person Approach at Randolph-Macon Academy Jul 29, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Brigadier General Retired David Wesley. Dave served as an active-duty officer in the Air Force for 26 years before retiring in 2014. For the last five years, he's been the president of Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. We've invited Dave to speak with us today as a part of our new series exploring how schools are planning to reopen in the fall.

The Governor Declared Schools Will Be Online in the Fall… Now What? Jul 23, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Mark McKee and Laurel Baker Tew.

Mark is the Head of School at Viewpoint School in Calabasas, California where Laurel is the Assistant Head of School for Enrollment Management. Mark and Laurel are deeply committed to independent schools and the field of enrollment management. In fact just last week Laurel spoke last at our online Heads Institute where Mark was also a cohort leader.

Whittle GO!: How One School Launched an Online Program Jul 10, 2020

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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Susan Emery as she describes Whittle GO! a new online program.

Susan is Co-Head of Admissions, Director of Financial Aid, and Associate Director of Boarding Admissions for the DC Campus of Whittle School & Studios. Before that she had more than 15 years of international and domestic experience in education, advising, and school administration.

Hungry, Humble & Nimble Jun 29, 2020

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Join us in a conversation with Anne-Marie Kee.

Anne-Marie became Head of School at Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada in 2017. Before that she was the Executive Director at the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) for 11 years.

Anne-Marie also attended EMA's first Heads Institute last summer.

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