Colom Named OSU Vice President for Enrollment Management
Friday, January 27, 2006
Albert N. Colom of Boynton Beach, Fla., was named the new vice president for Enrollment
Management at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater during the Oklahoma A&M Regents
meeting in Muskogee on Jan. 27.
As vice president for Enrollment Management, Colom will report to the CEO and president
of the OSU System for strategic and system issues, and to the provost and senior vice
president for operating issues. He will be responsible for the development and implementation
of integrated strategies to achieve the enrollment management goals of OSU and the
OSU System.
Specifically, he will implement the strategic enrollment management plan for the
university and the system; develop recruiting strategies and enrollment programs to
enhance the student-institution fit and facilitating successful student transition
to the university; and enhance divisional service to internal and external publics.
Colom has served as director of enrollment management at Florida Atlantic University
since 2005, where he also served as director of admissions and community college relations
and articulation from 2003-05, as director of admissions from 2000-03, and as director
of student retention from 1999-2000.
Prior to joining Florida Atlantic, he worked from 1986-1999 at the University of
South Florida, including serving as the admissions officer for international students,
as assistant director for transfer students, and as assistant director for articulation.
As the assistant director of academic support services from 1995-99, he coordinated
the establishment of the newly created Office of Adult and Transfer Students Services,
and was responsible for the overall direction and management of recruitment and retention
of adult and transfer students.
Colom received his B.A. in international studies, his M.Ed. in educational leadership,
and was a doctoral candidate in higher education administration, all at the University
of South Florida.
He holds memberships in the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions
Officers, Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars, Strategic Enrollment Management,
Association of Chief Admission Officers of Public Universities, the College Board,
National Association for College Admission Counseling, American Marketing Association-Symposium
in Higher Education, and American Association for Community Colleges.