What Lies Ahead for Colleges when Demographics, Economics, and Changing Enrollment Trends Rock our Boats?
Morning Workshop Interactive presentation in which issues are presented and then discussed by the audience. Examples include demographic issues: declining numbers in VT, increasing numbers of immigrants (nationally); financial issues: student loan changes, economic challenges for our prospective families; and enrollment issues: communicating with prospective students in their virtual environments, difficulties in predicting class sizes (wait lists, multiple applications and multiple deposits), merit aid versus helping the disadvantaged, meeting financial needs of returning students, etc. Participants will be encouraged to share how these and other issues have impacted their colleges and brainstorm potential solutions. Dr. Sandra Bartholomew, Dean of Enrollment Management at Green Mountain College, has an MBA in marketing and a Ph.D. in management, two disciplines that serve her well in the administration of the admissions and financial aid offices. She came to GMC in early 2007 from a
