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Recruiting and Admissions Advisory Group

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Charge

The Recruiting & Admissions Advisory Group provides a forum for schools and colleges to have input into the processes of recruiting and admissions. This advisory group is currently known as ASP (Admitting Systems Production group).

Membership

A school/college admitting office representative chairs the Recruiting and Admissions Advisory Group on a rotating basis. The chairperson is elected every two years.

The membership consists of representatives from each of the admitting offices on campus. Participation from other central and campus offices is encouraged. The current membership includes:

• School of Music: Laura Strozeski (chairperson)
• School of Education: Brian Jones, Cheryl Szpaichler
• Law School: Sabrina Ervin, Sarah Zearfoss
• Rackham: Antoinette Hopper, Shih-Wen Wu, Jody Misiak, Maia Bergman, Monique Washington
• College of Engineering: Felicia Becker (Graduate), Frenchie Burroughs, Sharon Burch (Undergraduate transfers)
• School of Business Adminstration: Fran Robinson, Douglas Thomas
• School of Dentistry: Gale Jaynes
• Medical School: Sandra Davis
• School of Public Health: Daryl McDaniel
• College of Architecture & Urban Planning: Meghan Lee-Hinkle, Ann Burghdoff
• School of Social Work: Sandra Rod
• Office of Undergraduate Admissions: Sally Lindsley, Clark Brigger, Lynn Pruitt, Dria Howlett, Cindy Bylsma
• Registrar's Office: Vera Hernandez
• School of Natural Resources: Patti Kardia
• MAIS: Mark Nelson, Diane Pearson, Joan Masters

People, who are not current representatives, can request to be placed on the agenda to raise a specific issue. To request to be placed on an agenda, the person should contact the chairperson stating the specific issue to be addressed.

Goals

To help promote and ensure the effective administration and implementation of recruiting and admissions at the University of Michigan by:

• Providing a forum for open dialog on overall recruiting and admissions processes.
• Seeking input from and representing the needs of recruiting and admissions stakeholders throughout the University community.
• Identifying potential areas of improvement in the overall recruiting and admissions process.
• Reviewing the impact of policy issues on business processes
• Providing input to and making recommendations regarding system-related enhancements.
• Providing input to and making recommendations regarding manual process enhancements.
• Sharing best practices within the group and with other recruiting and admissions stakeholders throughout the University community.
• Communicating the group's activities and discussions with other stakeholders throughout the University community.

Meetings

The Recruiting and Admissions Advisory Group meets twice a month.

• An e-mail group of the members of this Advisory Group has been created for contact purposes. The e-mail group is aspall@umich.edu.
• An agenda is distributed prior to each meeting using the e-mail group.
• Minutes of each meeting are kept. The minutes may be shared with the Student Unit Liaisons and/or posted on the MAIS Web site.