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Paul Marthers

This just in — the new Vice President for Enrollment has been announced: Dr. Paul Marthers.  Hailing from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, he received his Ed.D from UPenn.    As Dean of Admission at Reed, he reached record numbers of applicants, and Dr. Jackon’s email (full text below) expresses similar high hopes for RPI.

Also of interest is that Dr. Jackson’s title on the text now includes Professor of Engineering Sciences.  We think that due to the reduction in force she had to pick up a little slack and teach an extra class… or not.

To:      The Rensselaer Community
From:    Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
President
Professor of Physics
Professor of Engineering Sciences
Date:    May 19, 2009
Subject: Appointment of the Vice President for Enrollment

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Paul Marthers as Vice
President for Enrollment. Dr. Marthers will join Rensselaer on August 1,
2009.

Dr. Marthers has been Dean of Admission at Reed College in Portland,
Oregon, since 2002.  He joined Reed after four years at Oberlin College,
where he was Senior Associate Director, and later, Director of
Admissions, responsible for working with the president, deans, and
financial aid director in setting enrollment management policy.

Dr. Marthers has more than twenty-five years of experience in higher and
secondary education.  In 2007, The Chronicle of Higher Education
selected him as one of “10 admission deans who are shaping their field.”
In addition to Reed and Oberlin, Dr. Marthers has also worked in
admissions at Boston College, Vassar College, and Bennington College.
He also spent five years at Duke University as assistant and associate
director of foundation relations.  He later served as executive
assistant to the senior vice president of alumni affairs and
development.

In addition to his strong experience as a university administrator,
Dr. Marthers also has spent extensive time working directly with
students as both a counselor and coach. In the summers of 1994, 1995,
1997, and 1998, Dr. Marthers was the college counseling coordinator for
the Math and Science for Minority Students Program at Phillips Academy
in Andover, MA. From 1996-1998 at Phillips, he was a college counselor,
a live-in house counselor, and assistant coach of junior varsity
baseball.

As the Vice President for Enrollment at Rensselaer, Dr. Marthers will
serve as an officer of Rensselaer, while working closely and inclusively
with the President, President’s Cabinet, the enrollment staff, and the
Rensselaer community as a whole to develop strategies and programs to
enhance the Institute’s enrollment function.  Dr. Marthers will provide
leadership and direction to the entire enrollment management and
financial aid programs, assuming direct responsibility for all programs,
functions, facets, and activities affecting undergraduate enrollment at
the Institute.

Dr. Marthers will be responsible for the oversight of Undergraduate
Admissions, Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid, as well as working
collaboratively with the Deans of Undergraduate and Graduate Education.

Dr. Marthers earned his B.A. in English from Oberlin College; an
M.Ed. in Counseling from Boston University; an M.A. in Liberal Studies
from Reed College; and an Ed.D. in Higher Education Management from the
University of Pennsylvania.

During his tenure at Reed, the college has made major strides in its
admissions program, increasing its applications by more than 100 percent
and reaching record levels for six consecutive years.  The selectivity
and diversity of the student body at the college also have been
increased significantly during that time.

Dr. Marthers has written more than twenty articles for publication.  His
essays on admissions, athletics, college counseling, community
engagement, environmental sustainability, faculty compensation,
financial aid, liberal arts, multicultural counseling, and women’s
college history have appeared in or been accepted by Academe (the
Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors), College
and University, History of Education Quarterly, The Journal of College
Admission, Inside Higher Ed, the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies,
the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Liberal Arts
Online, The School Counselor, University Business, in the book College
Unranked as well as the Reed College alumni magazine.  Dr. Marthers
serves on the editorial board of College and University, which is the
journal of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and
Admissions Officers, and frequently speaks to the national media about
higher education.

Dr. Marthers will succeed James Nondorf, who recently accepted a
position as Vice President for Enrollment Management at the University
of Chicago. I am grateful to Mr. Nondorf for his many contributions to
Rensselaer during his time with us, and I wish him well in his new
pursuits.

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Paul Marthers to our community.

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