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August 25, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:
Dennis O'Shea
(410) 516-7160,
dro@jhu.edu
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Whalen Appointed Dean of Admissions and
Enrollment
Lorna Miles Whalen, an admissions, financial aid and market
research consultant
who has helped colleges and universities plan admissions
strategies for 16 years, has been
appointed dean of admissions and enrollment at The Johns Hopkins
University.
Whalen will be responsible for enrollment of the
undergraduate student body at
the university's Homewood campus, consisting of about 2,600
students in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and about
1,100 in the Whiting School of Engineering. Reporting to
Whalen will be the
offices of undergraduate admissions, financial aid, enrollment
research and the
registrar.
Whalen has been a consultant on strategic planning and on
marketing research
and communications since 1979, first for political strategist and
pollster Pat Caddell.
Since 1983, she has worked almost exclusively with clients in
higher education. She has
been a partner or principal in several consulting firms and, most
recently, account
executive since 1997 with Stamats Communications Inc. Her clients
there have included
Princeton Theological Seminary, Southern Methodist University and
the University of
Maine at Orono.
Earlier consulting assignments have included almost two
years in the early 1990s
working with the provost's office at Columbia University to merge
the undergraduate
enrollment operations of Columbia College and the School of
Engineering and Applied
Sciences.
"Lorna comes to Johns Hopkins with a broad background in
higher education and
with a new perspective and fresh approach to enrollment
planning," said Larry G.
Benedict, dean of Homewood student affairs, to whom Whalen will
report. "She's a very
creative and articulate person with strong leadership skills and
a lot of experience in
helping people and organizations change the way they do
business."
"My mandate is to bring to Johns Hopkins the experience I
have gained over the
last 16 years in integrated marketing, planning and
implementation in higher education,"
Whalen said. "That's my strong suit, working with people,
working with teams and
coming up with strategies to help Hopkins move forward to achieve
the full measure of
reward and recognition it deserves."
"I have enormous respect for Hopkins," she said. "It's a
wonderful school with
great name recognition and a wonderful tradition. The people are
fantastic. There's a
fabulous staff [in admissions and enrollment] with so much
expertise in so many areas.".
Whalen will begin work at Johns Hopkins on Sept. 7,
succeeding Robert J. Massa,
now vice president for enrollment management and college
relations at Dickinson
College. She is a 1972 graduate of Wellesley College and has done
graduate work in
education at Harvard University.
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