John F. Latting, senior associate director of undergraduate admissions at the California Institute of Technology, has been appointed director of undergraduate admissions at the Homewood campus.

Latting, who will begin work in late August, will be responsible for recruiting and admitting the freshman classes and undergraduate transfer students for the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering.

"We are very excited to have John head up the admissions team. He comes to Hopkins with a solid admissions background and broad experience at highly selective institutions. We are confident that the Admissions Office will continue to flourish under his leadership," says Susan Boswell, dean of student life, to whom Latting will report until a new dean is named to oversee undergraduate enrollment and academic-related services.

Latting has been at Caltech since 1994, first as assistant then associate director before he was promoted to his present job in 1999. Among other responsibilities, he has managed the selection of all Caltech undergraduates and directed recruitment of international students and transfers. He has also worked in admissions at Stanford University, where he focused on admission of athletes and international students.

Latting earned a doctorate in 1996 from the education policy and management research program at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education. He graduated from Stanford in 1987 and earned a master of arts degree from Berkeley in 1993.