The Admissions Directors Lunchcast

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team. Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissi...

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team. Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissi...

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team. Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissi...

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team. Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissi...

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team. Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissi...

Over the summer, we've worked with two guests from season five to conduct research related to staff morale and burnout among college admissions professionals. Some of the results were presented at the NACAC conference. A deeper analysis was published in a 12-page paper, available online. In this episode, each of us raises something interesting or noteworthy from the research, giving us an oppo...

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team. Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissi...

This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment process that admissions counselors need to be trained on. The goal is to help our listeners, Admissions Directors, identify opportunities to improve or enhance the development of their team. Each episode correlates with a module of Lunchcast Leadership - a two-day workshop we offer to admissi...

We are (about to be) back for another season!  As always, we have sixteen different guests, each bringing their own perspective and insights to issues being faced by admissions directors everywhere. Plus, a bonus episode, discussing some research we conducted with two guests from last season. This season, we're going back to basics. Each week, we'll dig deep into a stage in the recruitment...

In a professional highlight for your humble hosts, we were fortunate enough to be invited to serve as keynote speakers for the Ohio ACAC conference in March. We present you the unedited audio recording from inside the room, where we discussed the Shattering The Status Quo concept with three Ohio professionals. Alicia Watts, College Counselor at St. Edward High School Emily Haggerty, Director of Ad...

Every season, a few interviews need just a bit more space than we can fit into our regular format. When the full interview can't fit into one hour, we catch up in between seasons to give an unedited conversation. Originally released as part of "The Future of Test Scores", we had so much more to share from our conversation with  Perry Robinson,  Happily Retired School Counselor, and V...

Every season, a few interviews need just a bit more space than we can fit into our regular format. When the full interview can't fit into one hour, we catch up in between seasons to give an unedited conversation. Originally released as part of "The Future of Test Scores", we had so much more to share from our conversation with Kristoffer Toribio,  Manager of International Admissions...

Every season, a few interviews need just a bit more space than we can fit into our regular format. When the full interview can't fit into one hour, we catch up in between seasons to give an unedited conversation. Originally discussed in the episode, "What's Happening Post Covid", we are joined by Kathi Moody,  Department Head for School Counseling at Lynnfield High School in Lynn...

Our limited edition partner series this weeks features CollegeVine, the recruiting network for colleges. We begin with a clear outline of the challenges coming with changes in student search during our conversation with Vinay Bhaskara, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CollegeVine. We follow up with a compelling discussion focused on "now what?" with Jonathan Wehner, Vice Presiden...

When developing professional development plans for your team or for yourself, how frequently are you including involvement in your state or regional ACAC?  In a fitting end for a season featuring affiliate leaders, this week we're talking about the many benefits for professionals and their institutions. And yes, we even address the biggest perceived barrier: that the affiliates seem too cliqu...

In our profession, we are often told that to move up, you have to move on.  However, on every campus and high school, you'll find professionals who have spent most of their careers in one place.  There are benefits to that experience, and perhaps we need to counter the conventional wisdom of moving from institution to institution. Of course, both of your hosts took the path of moving on,...

Many of us have been or will be there - parenting a child going through the college search process.  In some ways, children of admissions professionals have unique advantages.  In other ways, our insight into the process makes this a genuinely different experience for us.  How should we approach it, and what can we learn from going through it ourselves? This week, we are joined by two counselors w...

Our limited-edition partner series this week features High School Counselor Marketing. Those of us who have been in leadership roles have no doubt run into Glen Hauser, Director of Sales at High School Counselor Marketing. High School Counselor Marketing has over the years become the most established company in the industry by providing reliable, updated and accurate Counselor data thereby offerin...

What's the surest way to initiate a heated argument between admissions professionals that boils over? Take a strong position on the use of test scores in college admissions. So that's what we're going to do - specifically, focus on the future of test scores.   As always, we have two great guests to provide insights. Perry Robinson, Happily Retired School Counselor, and Vice President for Enro...

Over the last several years, we all underwent a dramatic learning curve on the values, benefits, and drawbacks of in-person, hand-shaking college fairs.  We wanted to get perspectives on what we all specifically learned, which lessons will stay with us, and which innovative approaches will stay behind only as a covid-era necessity. As always, we are lucky to have two outstanding guests to hel...

If you've had more than two cycles in admissions leadership, you've no doubt been there: despite your best-laid plans, your class did not come in as intended.  In these situations, our playbook is thinner, and the ROI is more challenging to justify. Or is it? This week, we're breaking form a bit by bringing two active admissions professionals to share their thoughts on when, how, and what hai...

While it's not quite a covid episode, you might say the pandemic inspires the topics discussed.  All around us, and at every level of our profession, The Great Resignation is real.  It's hitting admissions offices particularly hard.  How does this rapid turnover, large number of admissions counselors who've never experienced a travel season, and changing expectations of families imp...

We're not superstitious, so we'll ask the question: now that we're in the post-covid "new normal" - what's happening with the college search process?  Which of the emergency adjustments are here to stay, and which are going to be left behind in favor of a return to the old ways? To tackle these questions, we have lined up to great guests. Kathi Moody, Department Head for School Counseling at...

We are (about to be) back for another season!  As always, we have sixteen different guests, each bringing their own perspective and insights to issues being faced by admissions directors everywhere. To find guests, we tried something a little different this time.  Each guest is a current President, President-Elect, or current Past President of their state or regional ACAC organization. &...

We now conclude this Financial Aid J Term with the extended conversation with Mark Salisbury, Co-Founder and CEO of Tuition Fit.  The edited interview aired during our conversation about student loan fears, but we had to cut so many great insights for time.  Enjoy this extended conversation where we discuss new federal regulations, crowdsourcing tuition data, and the need for change and...