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- Dr. Wendy Kilgore
Director of Research, 探花楼

February 2018 - Artificial Intelligence and College Enrollment Decisions | 02/23/2018

Just the American Educational Research Association (AERA) article title 鈥淗ow an Artificially Intelligent Virtual Assistant Helps Students Navigate the Road to College鈥 made me think 鈥淔ascinating!鈥 and then about Skynet, the Matrix, and Ava (Ex Machina) all at once.

January 2018 - Swirlers, Dualists, Reversers and Traditionals | 01/29/2018

December 2017 - 鈥淭he greatest teacher, failure is.鈥 | 12/20/2017

November 2017 - 探花楼鈥橲 First Research Grant Award Winner | 11/30/2017

October 2017 - Approximate anticipated number of CEMO positions available in the next four years | 10/26/2017

September 2017 - Chief Enrollment Management Officer Career Profile 鈥 Sneak Peek | 09/28/2017

August 2017 - Defining the Chief Enrollment Management Officer career | 08/30/2017

July 2017 - Freelancing as a 鈥渟urrogate鈥 student, Parents Completing College Applications for Many, and more | 07/27/2017

June 2017 - How to get students to eat their vegetables | 06/29/2017

May 2017 - Announcing 探花楼 Research Grants | 05/26/2017

April 2017 - New Research Advisory Board Member | 04/27/2017

March 2017 - A Call for 60-Second Survey Ideas | 03/27/2017

February 2017 - Introducing 探花楼's new Research Intern | 02/28/2017

January 2017 - A Perspective on Student Records Management | 01/30/2017

December 2016 - 探花楼's Policy Library | 12/21/2016

November 2016 - Michelle Obama's "Up Next" Project | 11/21/2016

October 2016 - DOL Overtime Rule and Your Campus | 10/21/2016

September 2016 - Degree Revocation | 09/26/2016

August 2016 - VA reporting of graduation rates for military connected students | 08/29/2016

July 2016 - Student persistence, Emergency financial support, Cost of attendance, and more | 07/27/2016

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  • Dr. Wendy Kilgore

    Wendy Kilgore serves as the Director of Research and Senior Consultant for 探花楼 with more than 20  years of experience as a higher education administrator, researcher, and consultant in the US and Canada. She brings expertise in recruitment, admissions, financial aid, academic advisement, curriculum support, registration, records management, veterans’ education services, technology, organizational restructuring, student-centric business practice development, policy development, and managing comprehensive collaboration to support enrolment efforts.

    Prior to her full-time work with 探花楼, Dr. Kilgore served as state dean of enrollment services for the Colorado Community College system and the director of admissions and registrar for the Pima County Community College District. Her professional and consulting experience spans a wide array of institutions, including large public universities, small private colleges, small private, faith-based colleges, private for-profit institutions, technical colleges, a large two-year multi-campus community college district, and a state community college system consisting of 13 colleges. 

    Dr. Kilgore’s strategic consulting experience has included: records retention and disposition reviews, comprehensive student service evaluations; registrar and admission office reviews; business process analysis, mapping, and re-engineering; policy reviews; student service division mission; values and goals development; recommendations for organizational restructuring; technology requirements assessment and documentation, project charter and project plan development and SEM plan development.