Senior AACRAO Consultant Wayne Sigler Receives APEX Award

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Wayne Sigler, Director of Admissions at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Senior AACRAO Consultant, received the 2008 AACRAO APEX award at the 94th AACRAO Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The award recognizes individuals for enhancing the administration and delivery of higher education through the effective management and use of information resources, namely information, technology, and services. SunGard Higher Education sponsors the award and donates $5,000 in the recipient’s name to his or her college or university scholarship fund.

Wayne Sigler has been Director of Admissions at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities since 1992. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, his work in higher education included serving as Associate, then Director, of Undergraduate Admissions at the University of Maryland, College Park and Dean of Admissions/Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Services at the University of Houston. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees from the George Washington University. He is a nationally respected author, speaker, and consultant on transformational leadership, enrollment management, customer service, and recruitment.

Wayne has been an active participant in AACRAO for approximately 35 years, where he has served as program committee member, committee chair, session recorder, session presenter, workshop presenter, and Webinar presenter. He has authored several publications, his most recent one focusing on higher education leadership and management. Managing for Outcomes: Shifting from Process-Centric to Results-Oriented Operations was published by AACRAO in the summer of 2007. Previously, his article “Outcome-Oriented Operations (Tri-O3): Thriving in a Highly Competitive market” was published in College and University journal in 2003. “The Age of Outcomes” will be published in the upcoming edition of C&U

Wayne has embraced the enrollment management concept and has been instrumental in helping to establish enrollment management as a standard in higher education. He is one of the original founders of the AACRAO Strategic Enrollment Management Conference and a long-time leading practitioner and conceptual developer of the national enrollment management movement and profession. Wayne has made over a dozen presentations at both national and regional meetings and was elected MSACROA Honorary Member in 1980.

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Posted on April 9, 2008