Bridget S. Coleman has been named to the new position of director of admissions and recruiting for the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, according to Dean Robert E. Thach, Ph.D.
“We created the new position primarily to enable us to enhance our recruitment of applicants to graduate programs in Arts & Sciences, and to bring together various aspects of the admissions process into one position,” Thach said.
“Bridget is ideally suited to this effort, as she has had extensive experience in database management working with the University’s Student Information Systems, as well as other aspects of the admissions process.”
Coleman joined the University in 1991 in the Office of Computing and Communications, working her way up from receptionist to information systems programmer/analyst.
Her positions in that department also included providing computer support and serving as interim assistant registrar for the College of Arts & Sciences.
In her new position, she manages regular and deferred admissions.
Her responsibilities include training Arts & Sciences staff who work with graduate admissions in the online application process; mailing admissions and award letters to admitted students and monitoring applicants’ responses; and managing international admissions applications to ensure that the numerous, complex federal requirements for international applicants are met.
She also is involved in recruiting, traveling to graduate-student recruiting events and working with Arts & Sciences departments on discipline-specific recruiting and the design of recruiting materials.
Coleman is a member of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals.