Vice President for Enrollment Management

educational opportunities and preparing students to shape the world around them. The nation's leading gender-diverse women's college, Mount Holyoke immerses students in a vibrant, intellectually adventurous, and globally connected community that develops students' voices, broadens their perspectives, and prepares them for lives of purposeful leadership. As the College advances the ambitious goals of its strategic plan, MHC Forward , and a recently completed strategic enrollment plan, it seeks an accomplished and visionary vice president for enrollment management to help shape the institution's future by advancing enrollment success, student outcomes, and long-term strength. Reporting to President Danielle Holley and serving as a key member of the senior leadership team, the vice president oversees Admission, Student Financial Services, and Career Readiness. Guided by President Holley's conviction that "the future is now," Mount Holyoke is pursuing an ambitious vision for its next chapter, creating an exceptional opportunity for a strategic and entrepreneurial enrollment leader. Supported by a talented enrollment leadership team, a deeply engaged campus community, and the largest fundraising campaign to date in women's college history, the next vice president will play a central role in advancing Mount Holyoke's enrollment, revenue, student success, and career readiness goals while helping articulate the enduring value and contemporary relevance of a Mount Holyoke education. Mount Holyoke's next vice president will join a highly collaborative and mission-driven community committed to maintaining access, strengthening outcomes, and ensuring long-term institutional vitality. The successful candidate will bring expertise in enrollment strategy, financial aid, net tuition revenue management, and organizational leadership. The vice president will be expected to navigate complex trade-offs thoughtfully and collaboratively while aligning enrollment decisions with the College's mission, values, and strategic priorities. The new vice president will inherit a dedicated team and an enrollment operation poised for its next stage of development. Enrollment success will be essential to realizing the ambitions of MHC Forward and sustaining Mount Holyoke's distinctive position in higher education. As such, the College seeks an ambitious, data-informed, and action-oriented leader who will strengthen enrollment performance, deepen institutional partnerships, sharpen Mount Holyoke's market position, and help ensure Mount Holyoke remains a destination of choice for talented students from across the nation and around the world. The leadership profile may be viewed here . WittKieffer is assisting Mount Holyoke College in this search. All applications, nominations, and inquiries are invited. For fullest consideration, candidate materials should be received by January 7, 2027 . Applications should include, as separate documents, a CV or resume and a letter of interest that address the themes in this profile and should be submitted through the WittKieffer Candidate Portal . Nominations and inquiries can be directed to the WittKieffer team supporting this search: Robin Mamlet, Amy Crutchfield, and Randi Miller MHC-VPEM@wittkieffer.com The anticipated salary range for this position is $255,000-$275,000. Organization Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective liberal arts institution with a long tradition of educating women for active engagement in the world. A diverse community of approximately 2000 students (13% international, 17% U.S. women of color), the College is committed to the creation of a powerful learning environment which seamlessly links the curricular and co-curricular dimensions of campus life in a way that affirms identity, builds community and prepares women for leadership in a pluralistic world. Mount Holyoke is located in the beautiful Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts . The College, which has just completed the third year of an ambitious six-year strategic plan, is committed to educating a diverse community of women at the highest level of academic excellence and to fostering the alliance of liberal arts education with purposeful engagement in the world. Mount Holyoke is in a particularly strong position having received the highest numbers of applications in its history. Mount Holyoke is a member of the Five College Consortium (along with Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst). As the first of the Seven Sisters—the female equivalent of the once predominantly male Ivy League—Mount Holyoke established higher education for women as a serious endeavor. Our long, distinguished history of educating leaders arises from a powerful combination of: academic excellence in a global learning environment a tight-knit, diverse, and international community a worldwide network of alumnae the conviction that women can and should make a difference in the world. Reputation Mount Holyoke College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review Guide 's 2010 edition of its annual guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges . Mount Holyoke rates highly in a number of categories, among them "best classroom experience" (#6), "best college library" (#12), and "dorms like palaces" (#13). Students Our 2,200 students hail from 48 states and nearly 70 countries. One in three students is an international citizen or African American, Asian American, Latina, Native American, or multiracial. Sixty-two percent of incoming first-year students were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. Majors 49 departmental and interdepartmental majors Option to design your own major 33 percent of all majors are interdisciplinary Majors of current MHC students: humanities, 32 percent; social sciences, 42 percent; natural and applied sciences, 26 percent Class Size 15 percent of classes have 10 or fewer students 64 percent have 20 or fewer 82 percent have 25 or fewer Student-to-Faculty Ratio 9 to 1 After College Six months after graduation, 86 percent of the class of 2008 were working or in school. Of those students, 16 percent were attending graduate/professional schools of their choice. Typically, 75 percent of MHC graduates enroll in graduate/professional school within ten years.