In Your Element with Eric Stoller and Guest Melanie Gottlieb — Interim Executive Director of AACRAO

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About the Episode

This fast-paced show drops listeners into a compelling conversation about higher education. In Your Element asks innovative leaders about the challenges, wins, and future of everything from meeting enrollment numbers to equity in education.

On this episode of In Your Element, Eric Stoller has a deep-dive conversation with Melanie Gottlieb — Interim Executive Director at AACRAO. Tune into this episode to learn the following:

What are the current challenges facing enrollment management professionals, including registrars?
How difficult is it for institutions to find people right now to fill roles, especially entry level positions that have completely changed in scope, responsibilities and expectations?
Why do enrollment analytics and predictive models matter?
What role will Ed Tech play in the future of college recruitment and admissions?
How do EM and HE leaders in general move forward into a post-pandemic reality?

People in this episode

Host

Daniella Nordin

Daniella Nordin is the Director of Customer Success and Engagement at Element451 and the host of In Your Element.

Brendan Henkel

Brendan Henkel is the Manager of Solutions Engineering at Element451 and host of In Your Element.

Interviewee

Melanie Gottlieb

Melanie Gottlieb assumed the role of Interim Executive Director in May of 2021, after nearly six years as the Deputy Director. She came to the national office with 18 years as an AACRAO member, with experience in Records & Registration, Enrollment Management and International Recruitment and Credential Evaluation. She has served the association in a variety of leadership roles throughout her career, most recently as Vice President for International Education on the AACRAO Board of Directors. Melanie earned an MA in Information Science from the University of Missouri - Columbia and a BA in History /American Studies from Marlboro College in Vermont.

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