In the second episode of our two-part chapters mini-series, we talk with NYGAP Chapter president Jaclyn Napoleon and TXGAP Chapter president Victor Lopez. Jaclyn and Victor tell us about the benefits of being part of a regional chapter and how ...

In the first episode of our two-part chapters mini-series, we highlight the two NAGAP Special Interest Chapters: BioGAP and JGAP. Chapter presidents Brandy Wood and Colleen Sommerfeld discuss the opportunities these chapters present, how to get...

Join The NAGAP Report  hosts Lauren McGowan, Marcus Hanscom, and Aaron Berger as they're off to the races discussing the upcoming 2024 GEM Summit in Louisville, KY.  Find out what makes attending Summit so powerful for your o...

Enrollment managers are often forced to confront difficult student situations and make tough decisions regarding how to enforce or apply a policy (or not). How do we make fair and defensible decisions when students ask to be the exception to th...

Are you looking to expand your international graduate student recruitment efforts in South America? Listen in as The NAGAP Report co-host Marcus Hanscom has a conversation with Ana Villavicencio and Rita Moriconi, both Regional Educati...

We are always looking for better ways to reach our students, right? This podcast episode of The NAGAP Report is about the benefits of podcasting in graduate enrollment. Join co-host Dr. Aaron Berger and Dr. Christopher Lewis, Director ...

As institutions look to grow and diversify programs and revenue ahead of the projected enrollment cliff, online education has become even more critical to the enrollment arsenal. But for many campuses, scaling online education efficiently - and...

Join The NAGAP Report co-hosts Lauren McGowan, Aaron Berger, and Marcus Hanscom as they debrief after an exciting few days at the 2023 NAGAP Graduate Enrollment Management Summit. This year's annual conference was held at the Marriott ...

Student workers and graduate assistants are an important part of our recruitment and admissions teams. But how can we ensure that we are hiring the right people, and supervising them effectively? How can we set reasonable expectations that allo...

The Institute for International Education released its most recent Open Doors report in November and the news was positive: the total number of international students in the U.S. grew by four percent in 2021-2022 over the prior year, bolstered ...

This episode explores the difficult decision many GEM professionals are facing – staying in your role, transitioning to another role in GEM, shifting to other roles in higher education, or leaving the field entirely. The conversation delves int...

Content marketing is the future, but what does it actually look like in practice? Hear from Stevie Otto, Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Southern Methodist University’s Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, as she describes t...

So much institutional knowledge lives in the minds of individual staff and faculty, creating a reliance on them from others for information. In addition to creating inefficiencies, this practice is problematic as institutional knowledge walked ...

As graduate enrollment professionals constantly seek to learn more about their potential student populations, the University of Notre Dame has spent the past 10 years asking their applicants to provide insight into their admission journey. Hear...

As graduate enrollment professionals feel increased pressure to enroll more students, one critical, low-hanging fruit hangs right under our own eyes - our own undergraduates. Hear from Lauren Kicak, Associate Director of Graduate Admission at C...

The second of our two-part series on video in graduate student recruitment, this episode features an interview with Lauren McGowan, Director of Recruitment and Admissions for the University of Buffalo School of Social Work. Lauren presented a p...

Join Aaron Berger for his first episode hosting The NAGAP Report as he welcomes Gabe Ruttner, Co-Founder and CTO at Clearmix, to the podcast to discuss using video in graduate student recruitment. Listen in as they discuss best practic...

Launched in 2019, the NAGAP Leadership Academy provides an expansive, year-long professional development opportunity for higher education professionals. The Academy combines formal leadership training from professional development leader Manage...

Most graduate enrollment professionals are scratching their heads on what the fall graduate recruitment cycle looks like as we emerge from the deepest impacts of the pandemic. As schools more heavily revert back to on-campus graduate fairs, man...

As we wrapped up Women's History Month for 2022, we had the opportunity to sit down with our incoming NAGAP President, Kristen Sterba; Vice President, Naronda Wright; and Publications Chair, Melissa Sersland. Listen in to hear about their caree...

We celebrate International Women's Day with this special conversation with Holly Wilbanks of The Wilbanks Consulting Group. Once a card-carrying member of the NAGAP community, Holly embarked on a soul-searching journey that led her to found her...

Lauren McGowan takes the reigns for her first podcast episode as cohost of The NAGAP Report. Join Lauren as she talks about innovation in graduate student orientation with two student affairs colleagues from the University of Buffalo S...

Join us for part two of our first conversation with our new The NAGAP Report cohost, Lauren McGowan. After discussing the importance of altruistic marketing in graduate enrollment, we take a deeper dive into what it takes to develop va...

The idea of altruistic marketing certainly isn't new, but it plays a critical role in graduate student recruitment. Our prospective graduate student "consumers" are seeking right-fit institutions that not only offer their intended program of st...

This episode of The NAGAP Report features the audio from our April 20, 2021, virtual panel as part of the “Leadership Edition” of The Exchange Live, the NAGAP webinar series. This is the second of a two-part conversation on st...