College Admissions Staff - Massive turnover

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Anonymous wrote:Univ Prof here. I agree with the main observation of this thread. Admissions offices are being staffed, on average, by poorly trained and poorly educated folks (who are, in general, MUCH less able than folks they are screening). Fact of life and it will not change.

Seriously?

I've yet to meet an admissions person who is "MUCH less able than folks they are screening." I've met a variety of folks with a variety skills - none in the "MUCH less" category.

Also, did you not get the memo that many PT AO staff are work study students and many entry-level FT employees are recent college grads. That reflects more on their professors than anything else.

But if this is the case on your campus, then what steps are you taking to increase pay in order to attract better trained and educated talent (as well as what improvements are you making in your classroom to improve the quality of your college's grads?)?

You should know that universities use HR/admissions offices to staff up on URM so they can meet their URM quotas. They often hire graduates from schools that are ranked far below their own rank. You can do the math on the rest.

My niece worked in the admissions office as a tour guide at her school from sophomore year onwards. She’s in a master’s degree in higher education affairs program now at the same school and still works in admissions; she has some kind of stipend and I think she said the school is paying for most or all of the degree.

From what I gather, that’s a typical path if that’s the field you want to work in. She is at a regional state school BTW.