Friday, October 25, 2013

enrollment manager quietly tried to fix admissions messaging

<p>Laurie Koehler, newly hired senior associate provost for enrollment management, said Friday that GW is not need-blind, after officials told applicants for years that GW does not consider financial need. Hatchet File Photo.</p><p>Shortly after Laurie Koehler took charge of the University's admissions and financial aid offices three months ago, she realized that GW was misleading prospective students about how it decided its freshman class.</p><p>She reviewed GW-stamped materials and presentations, trying to clean up an admissions office that had also admitted to reporting inflated rankings data last year. But, she said, administrators failed to notice that the website still heralded GW as need-blind.</p><p>"It became apparent that we were not consistently telling the full story about the role of financial need in our admissions process," Koehler, senior associate provost for enrollment management, said in an email Wednesday.</p><p><a href="http://www.gwhatchet.com/2013/10/24/pushing-for-transparency-enrollment-manager-quietly-tried-to-fix-admissions-messaging/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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