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Inside Iowa State
July 5, 1996

Finalists named for assistant VP for enrollment

by Anne Dolan
Three finalists have been named for the position of assistant vice president for enrollment. They are David Bousquet, director of undergraduate admissions at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg; Don Kajcienski, owner of Don Kajcienski & Associates, Las Vegas, Nev., a marketing consulting service for non- profit organizations; and Ron Moss, director of admission and enrollment management at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

The assistant vice president position is new, resulting from a reorganization in Iowa State's enrollment services areas (admissions, financial aid, new student orientation and special recruitment programs). The assistant vice president will report to the vice president for student affairs and coordinate the total recruitment effort in enrolling the new undergraduate class each year.

Each of the finalists are spending two days on campus this month, meeting with students, faculty, staff and administrators. Each candidate also gives a 20- to 30-minute public presentation on "Changing the Culture: Moving into the Enrollment Management Mentality" and fields questions from the audience.


Candidate presentations

9 a.m.,  Memorial Union Pioneer Room

  • July 8 David Bousquet

  • July 15 Don Kajcienski

    Moss visited campus July 1-2


  • Bousquet has been director of undergraduate admissions at Virginia Tech since 1986, although he stepped out of that position from 1992 to 1993 to lead the school's transition to an integrated enrollment services division. Previously, he spent more than eight years at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he started in the office of veterans affairs, held several acting positions in student activities and served as a staff assistant in academic support services. He became assistant director, freshman admissions, in 1982 and associate director, freshman admissions, in 1984.

    Bousquet earned a B.A. in sociology and an M. Ed. in higher education administration from the University of Massachusetts.

    Kajcienski started his own consulting business in 1990. For seven years prior, he was associate vice president, enrollment services, at California State University, San Bernardino. He also directed the admissions office at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti; and was a project coordinator for the Michigan Health Council, East Lansing; director of admissions at Mercy College of Detroit, Michigan; and a marketing representative for the Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

    Kajcienski earned a B.A. from the University of Detroit, Michigan, and an M.A. from Eastern Michigan University.

    Moss has been director of admission and enrollment management at Southern Methodist since 1993. Prior to that, he was director of admissions at Rice University, Houston, and spent five years at Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, where he served as an admission counselor, director of freshman admission and associate director of development for church relations.

    Moss received a B.S. in journalism and an M. Ed. in educational administration from Texas Christian University.

    Eric Hoiberg, associate dean of agriculture, is chairing the search committee.

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