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Vice President for Enrollment

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Ripon College
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Ripon, Wisconsin (US)
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Ripon College prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship.  Our liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education.

Mission Statement

 

As Ripon College, a private, residential liberal arts college, prepares for its 175th anniversary in 2026, they seek a Vice President for Enrollment with deep recruitment experience to lead a collaborative campus community to enrollment success.  Reporting to President Victoria Folse, and joining an engaged senior leadership team known as the Administrative Council, the new Vice President will build on the foundation provided by the College’s long history of quality teaching and learning and bolstered by the momentum of a multi-prong, new thoughtful strategic plan.

 

Full Position Announcement: https://nessearches.com/vpe-ripon/

 

To Apply
NES, a higher education search firm specializing in enrollment management searches, is assisting Ripon in identifying the College's next Vice President for Enrollment. For more information, or to nominate someone for this position, contact Suzi Nam (suzi.nam@nessearches.com), Catherine Capolupo (catherine.capolupo@nessearches.com) or Mary Napier (mary.napier@nessearches.com). All conversations will remain confidential unless otherwise stated and agreed. Interested candidates should submit a résumé and a letter of interest describing their unique qualifications for the Vice President for Enrollment position at Ripon College. Candidates should also provide the names and contact information of at least five professional references. For confidentiality, references will not be contacted without permission. For best consideration, all application materials should be submitted electronically to ripon@nessearches.com by November 8, 2024. The position is campus-based and the preferred start date is Spring 2025.

 

Ripon College encourages applications from individuals from underrepresented groups in the professoriate, including, for example, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, first-generation college students, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Organization

Ripon College is a liberal arts and sciences college located in the small city of Ripon, Wisconsin. Founded in 1851, Ripon is a blend of tradition and innovation. Small-group seminars are held in beautiful century-old buildings with windows that look across our lovely tree-shaded campus—and the college also offers computer-equipped classrooms, modern laboratories, a beautiful flexible-space theater, and excellent athletic facilities. Our students, numbering about 1,100, come from most of the states and from countries around the world. We offer a wide variety of residences, from traditional residence halls to apartment-style living, and more than 90% of our students choose to live on campus. Ripon students participate in more than 70 campus organizations, and they compete in 23 varsity sports. They study off-campus, too, taking part in research programs, internships, and study abroad. Ripon is a true community of scholars where students and faculty collaborate for the success of all.

Mission

Ripon College prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Our liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education.

Vision

Ripon envisions itself as a venerable, prosperous, and widely respected liberal arts college that is proud of its history and confident about the future.

An intense engagement with and concern for academic, artistic, and personal development of students have defined Ripon since its founding on the Wisconsin frontier and will always be enduring characteristics of the college.

Vigorous and healthy growth will place Ripon in a distinctive class of intentionally sized, intellectually vibrant, and civic-minded colleges. Ripon will attract students, faculty, and staff of excellent character, great potential and high quality, and the college will be increasingly appealing to its alumni. Ripon will interact conscientiously with the local community and will extend its reach to the nation and the world at large.

Ripon College will command broad interest, recognition, support and respect. A burgeoning spirit of optimism and opportunity, accessibility and possibility will emanate from the college and will inspire it to imagine - and to do - great things.

Core Values

We are committed to:

  • Serious Intellectual Inquiry

A standard of academic excellence fosters scholarly and artistic achievement and promotes lifelong learning.

  • Integrity

Ethical conduct guides the college. Decisions and actions reflect the principles of honesty, fairness, candor, respect, responsibility, trust, inclusiveness, and openness.

  • Diverse Community

Differences of perspective, experience, background, and heritage enrich the college. Relationships are sincere, friendly, welcoming and supportive.

  • Stewardship

Ripon College is a responsible steward of its mission, traditions and resources.

  • Service

Service within and beyond the campus enables effective governance, encourages community engagement and creates leadership opportunities.

 

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