{"id":11060,"date":"2022-11-11T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2024-11-05T18:51:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:51:52","slug":"podcast-augsburg-enrollment-leaders-talk-college-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/11\/podcast-augsburg-enrollment-leaders-talk-college-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Augsburg Enrollment Leaders Talk College Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-1.04.30-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11061 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-1.04.30-PM-300x187.png\" alt=\"Headshots of Robert Gould and Stephanie Ruckel on a green and orange background with white text reading, &quot;Enrollment Edge: the enrollmentFUEL podcast. Episode 45: Robert Gould &amp; Stephanie Ruckel&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-1.04.30-PM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-1.04.30-PM.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Robert Gould, vice president for strategic enrollment management, and Stephanie Ruckel, director of admissions operations, joined host Jay Fedje as featured guests on a recent episode of the Enrollment Edge podcast by enrollmentFUEL.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The episode focused on the power of direct admissions\u2014a simplified approach in which students are admitted based on high school GPA, in some cases before they have even applied\u2014to break down college access barriers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEssentially, what we\u2019re trying to do is remove as many barriers as we can for students, and give them the most options to enroll in whatever institution is a good place for them,\u201d said Ruckel. \u201cWhen you start thinking about the student\u2019s perspective, you can start questioning the [admissions] process a little bit differently. Why are we requiring these things? How are we using this data? Are we using this information?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe challenge in doing this is really stripping down the application\u2014making sure we are collecting what we need to collect, but keeping it as simple as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Augsburg\u2019s participation in pilot programs with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the Common App, as well as significant changes to the Augsburg application itself, puts the university at the leading edge of this new policy movement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI want to credit the whole team,\u201d said Gould. \u201cWe\u2019ve literally taken the admissions process and the system and changed it in one cycle. We had some good thoughts about how it fulfilled our mission as an enrollment division, but I think more importantly, people had the appetite for it\u2014wanting to build deeper relationships and wanting to eliminate barriers for all students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Listen to the episode here: <span class=\"s3\">Direct Admission: Unpacking College Access<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gould, vice president for strategic enrollment management, and Stephanie Ruckel, director of admissions operations, joined host Jay Fedje as featured guests on a recent episode of the Enrollment Edge podcast by enrollmentFUEL.\u00a0 The episode focused on the power of direct admissions\u2014a simplified approach in which students are admitted based on high school GPA, in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3228,7],"tags":[3998,944,3999],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-kudos","category-staff","tag-direct-admissions","tag-enrollment-management","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11603,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}