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Don Hossler, Ph.D., is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Hossler has served as the Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Services for Indiana University Bloomington and the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Services for the seven campuses of the Indiana University system, the Executive Associate Dean for the School of Education, and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies. He is the founding Executive Director of the Research Center of the National Student Clearinghouse. His areas of specialization include: college choice, student persistence, student financial aid policy, and enrollment management. Hossler has consulted with more than 45 colleges, universities, and related educational organizations, including The College Board, Educational Testing Services, the University of Cincinnati, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, the Pew Charitable Trust, the University of Missouri, Colorado State University, the University of Alabama, and the General Accounting Office of the U.S. government. He has presented more than 130 scholarly papers and invited lectures, and is the author, or co-author, of 12 books and monographs and more than 80 articles and book chapters. Hossler has directed projects funded by The College Board, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Found for Education, The Lilly Endowment, and the Spencer Foundation. He has received national awards for his research and scholarship from the American College Personnel Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

David H. Kalsbeek, Ph.D., is the senior vice president for Enrollment Management and Marketing at DePaul University. David leads the enrollment management and marketing development strategies for the largest Catholic university and the nation’s 13th largest private not-for-profit university, enrolling over 23,000 students in ten colleges and multiple campuses in the greater Chicago region. His responsibilities encompass undergraduate and graduate admissions, financial aid, student records, career services and employer relations, university marketing, TRIO programs, and institutional research. For more than 25 years, his approaches have been showcased as best practices in the field. He has given more than 120 professional presentations, authored more than 20 publications and chapters in seven books on university administration, and consulted with more than 40 institutions and associations. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the University of Pennsylvania’s Executive Doctoral Program in Higher Education Administration and currently is on the faculty in University of Southern California’s certificate program in enrollment management leadership. David holds a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from Saint Louis University.

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