On Monday, Dec. 3, Cabrini welcomed Brandon Miller, EdD. as the new vice president of enrollment management.
Having previously worked in large universities, Dr. Miller was drawn to Cabrini’s values and its warm, welcoming environment.
What is enrollment management?
In this role, Dr. Miller will be responsible for overseeing the growth, management, and retention of students in accordance with the university’s goals. He will be focusing on overseeing the university’s 2020 strategic plan. This plan includes increasing student diversity and enrollment in undergraduate programs and the retention rate between semesters.
How did Dr. Miller get involved with enrollment management?
Dr. Miller’s journey to this position began at Baylor University as an undergrad worked as a tour guide for admissions. In his junior year, he had the distinct opportunity to work on the “Student Foundation,” an on-campus organization in conjunction with the admissions department.
This organization is reserved for a select number of students, who have been bestowed the “responsibility of accomplishing the tasks of recruiting qualified students, raising scholarship funds and building goodwill among alumni and students.”
He worked on the student recruitment team to attract students from the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. He thoroughly loved this experience working both as a tour guide and a member of Student Foundation.
This passion would later come to fruition when he became the vice president of student success at his alma mater. It was this position that helped to lay the road for his future endeavors in enrollment management.
In addition to increasing the retention rate by 4.5 percent, Miller was involved on several committees including the worked with committees for minority retention rate, student success team and served as the faculty fellow for the honors residential college.
Following Baylor, he worked in enrollment management at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and Texas A &M University- Central Park. During these years, he was very active in several on-campus organizations including the behavioral assessment team, the diversity committee, and the Provost’s academic council.
Junior social work major Grace Adams mentioned that Dr. Miller’s rich on-campus involvement would serve Cabrini well in the future.
“I’m super impressed by his prior commitment to diversity in previous positions,” Adams noted, ” which I think is something that any institution can never have enough of.”
How was he selected for this job?
In the interview process consisted of a panel of representatives from all across campus, including the athletics dept., the center for student success, admissions, campus ministry, academic affairs, etc.
The panel was responsible for sorting through evaluating resumes, selecting individuals for Skype interviews, and narrowing down the candidates for four on-campus interview.
Fr. Carl Janicki, a campus ministry representative, saw Brandon Miller’s values and ideas for the future as an excellent fit for Cabrini.
“He had a variety of higher ed experiences…” Janicki noted. “He was really attracted to the vision and mission that Cabrini has and where it’s going.”
Dr. Miller is optimistic about starting at Cabrini and has great plans in store.
“I am very excited to be here,” Miller said. “I look forward to working with the entire campus community to ensure that we make Cabrini a first choice destination and ensure that all Cabrini students succeed, graduate and have a wonderful experience.”
