Leadership in Enrollment Management Certificate Program

Relevant

Experienced Independent School Practitioners Advise and Support

Two admission and enrollment management veterans from the independent school community work with USC’s CERPP team to provide independent school relevancy in the case studies and to serve in an advisory role to the independent school admission professionals enrolled in the program. 

Supported

$50,000 Scholarship Commitment From The Enrollment Management Association

The Enrollment Management Association has committed $50,000 in annual scholarship funds in support of up to ten $5,000 scholarships each year. The full cost of the program is $10,000. Eligible scholarship recipients are current admission professionals in U.S. and Canadian independent schools who are accepted into the program and are employed at a member school. Participants must first apply and confirm acceptance to the USC's CERPP certificate in Leadership in Enrollment Management program before applying for the scholarship.

Are there additional requirements for scholarship recipients who participate in the program?
Scholarship recipients agree to attend a seminar session hosted by USC’s CERPP at our Annual Conference both in the year their program begins and in the year following completion of the course.

In addition, each scholarship recipient agrees to:

• Be interviewed by The Enrollment Management Association staff about the program experience
• Write a 500-800 word blog about his/her learnings during the course of the program
• Join The Enrollment Management Association’s social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and post about 1x per month about his/her experience
• Join The Enrollment Management Association’s LinkedIn group, and define and lead a LinkedIn conversation about key lessons learned
• Present a workshop at the Annual Conference following the completion of his/her course, individually or with other scholarship recipients

Expert

Senior Program Faculty

• Jerome Lucido, Executive Director, USC Center for Enrollment, Research, Policy, and Practice, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
• Philip Ballinger, Associate Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admissions, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
• Stephanie Balmer, Head of School, Harpeth Hall (Nashville, TN)
• John Barnhill, Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management, Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
• Arlene Wesley Cash, Enrollment Management (Stockton, CA)
• Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management, University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
• Barbara Gill, Assistant Vice President, Undergraduate Admissions & Enrollment Planning, University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
• Donald Hossler, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
• David Kalsbeek, Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing, DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
• Robert Lay, Dean of Enrollment Management, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
• Courtney McAnuff, Vice President, Enrollment Management, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ)
• James McCoy, Vice President for Enrollment Management, University of New Haven (New Haven, CT)
• Donald Saleh, Vice President for Enrollment Management, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
• Stuart Schmill, Dean of Admissions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• Richard Shaw, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

Apply for Scholarship

How to Apply for the Scholarship:

1. In order to qualify for The Enrollment Management Association’s scholarship, your school must have been a member of The Association for at least the past two years.
2. If awarded the scholarship, you agree to:
   1. to attend a seminar session hosted by USC’s CERPP at The Enrollment Management Association's Annual Conference in the year your program begins
   2. to be interviewed by Association staff about the program experience
   3. to write a 500-800 word blog about your learnings during the course of the program
   4. to join Association social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and to post approximately 1x per month about your experience
3. Click here first to apply for the program via the USC's CERPP online application form, indicating whether your participation requires The Enrollment Management Association scholarship support. Please note that the deadline for applying to USC CERPP is August 1, 2017 and that notifications of acceptance into the program will be made by August 15.
4. Get accepted to the USC's CERPP program. If no scholarship is required, the process ends here.
5. If a scholarship is required, return here after your acceptance into the program to complete the scholarship application process. Click the "Apply Now" button below. You will need to supply the following (send to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. after completing the online application):
   1. Biographic information
   2. Confirmation of acceptance to the certificate program
   3. Letter of institutional support (view a sample here)
   4. Confirmation of the additional requirements outlined in the Supported section
6. Receive acceptance or rejection of The Enrollment Management Association scholarship funds.
7. Complete enrollment process with USC's CERPP.

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