High School Enrollment Specialist

MARQUISHA (BYA) BRADLEY

Milwaukee, WI Tel: 414-***-**** Em: ******************@*****.***

PERSONAL PROFILE SUMMARY

Education Consultant specializing with over 5 years of experience in educational guidance and support. Proven track record facilitating student transitions, achieving a 94% college acceptance rate for seniors forward thinkers and helping school systems strive towards college prep and career readiness. My goal is to gain a full-time position with a growing innovative company that will utilize my skills in relationship and rapport building, administrative, communication, and project management abilities. Also provide opportunities for professional growth and advancement in addition to equity, inclusion, and diversity. Education

Cardinal Stritch University May 2019

Master of Science in Higher Education and Student Affairs University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee May 2012

Bachelor of Science in English

Work Experience

Enrollment Counselor 05/2023-03/2024

Waukesha County Technical/Pewaukee, WI

● Counsels’ prospective students and their support systems through the admissions funnel the admissions tunnel

● . Manage a diverse group of prospective students from assigned areas while maintaining comprehensive knowledge of college policies and procedures.

● Facilitated seamless transitions for students to academic advisors

● Coordinated follow-up activities and organized various enrollment events,

● Collaborated closely with fellow staff to provide accurate and timely enrollment information

● Work closely with other enrollment services staff, student services staff, and WCTC campus departments and divisions to provide complete and accurate enrollment information and excellent customer service, through in-depth relationship building, to students.

● Monitor, track, and guide students throughout the enrollment process from inquiry to enrollment.

● Administer reports and review dashboards for various admissions-related performance measures, auditing needs, and student follow-up. Maintain current professional technical knowledge in the field through professional development including state-called meetings, conferences, and other opportunities.

● Work closely with the Recruitment & Engagement Team to ensure the creation of a positive team environment and creative efforts to recruit and enroll prospective students to WCTC.

● Participate in campus committees and other related activities as needed or desired. College/Career Advisor 06/2022-05/2023

Milwaukee Excellence Charter School Milwaukee, WI

● Established/developed the College/Career department.

● Created the groundwork by establishing Milwaukee Excellence school profile, presentation slides for seminars, FERPA consent forms, and other documents that need to be sent out to colleges.

● Create partnerships with colleges and universities to help with enrollment and summer bridge programs.

● Design and implement college readiness lessons for all high school grade levels.

● Assisting students to transition from high school to a post-secondary organization, employment trade, or apprenticeship setting.

● Initiate remote college advising model consisting of planning remote panels, workshops, and college tours.

● Assisting students and families with financial aid and FAFSA

● Sending transcripts, letters of recommendations, and ACT scores to colleges/universities

● Manage scheduling and hosting of college representatives with intent to market new opportunities to students.

● Hire and train new college/career advisors.

College Transition Coordinator 09/2019 - 06/2022

Carmen Middle/High school of Science and Technology Milwaukee, WI

● Assisting students to transition from high school to a post-secondary organization, employment trade, or apprenticeship setting.

● Sending transcripts, letters of recommendations, and ACT scores to colleges/universities

● Manage scheduling and hosting of college representatives with intent to market new opportunities to students.

● Initiate remote college advising model consisting of planning remote panels, workshops, and college tours.

● Design and implement college readiness lessons for all high school grade levels.

● Assisting students and families with financial aid and FAFSA

● Attending counselor conferences to learn about various colleges.

● Plan an end of year college assembly, consisting of guest speakers, to celebrate seniors’ accomplishments.

● Seniors received over $5,000,000 in renewable scholarships.

● 94% seniors submitted college applications and 94% have been accepted into a 2–4-year college/university and/or trade and apprenticeship programs.

● Create partnerships with colleges and universities to help with enrollment and summer bridge programs.

Early Literacy Program Manager 06/2018 - 09/2018

Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee/Future Forward Milwaukee, WI

● Supervises/Train staff of instruction in implementing the Future Forward Program. Coordinates tutoring schedule, after-school sessions, and family activities. Models reading instruction, observe lessons and review lesson plans and binders.

● Creates and uses a print-rich literacy environment that is conducive to early reading instruction. Research, purchases, and maintains research and materials.

● Manages the program staff and volunteers according to the policies and procedures developed by BGCGM.

● Works with teachers, parent partners and tutors to ensure that parents receive information on their child’s progress and how best to support their child’s achievement. Teacher 01/2018 - 06/2019

Milwaukee Center for Independence Milwaukee, WI

● Instructed adolescents in small group settings which involved learning to listen to instructions and playing with others.

● Conducted teacher and student observations in various classroom settings to measure the learning process and interactions between teachers and students.

● Inspired first graders to become creative, confident, and to exceed all expectations.

● Responsible for grading and filing papers, keeping student’s folders organized with current work, and providing a clean, and safe learning environment for students at all times.

● Distributed teaching materials to students such as textbooks, workbooks, and paper and pencils.

● Flexible with different adaptations to help those with disabilities be in the classroom.

● Tend to children who have disabilities like autism to help to become independent by having 1:1 meetings.

● Conducted and contributed to IEP’s and Behavior Plans for students with disabilities. Course Designer / Internship 10/2018-12/2018

Cardinal Stritch University Milwaukee, WI

● Designed a course for the Student Support Department Academic Support Canvas.

● Compiled content to be added to the course to display the Student Support departments services.

● Created templates for free tutoring, online writing lab, student accessibility services, student resources, testing center/placement testing, supplemental instruction, workshops by request and academic coaching.

● Pitched ideas on how the department can get students to sign-up for this course to receive the services.

Leader Teacher 3/2017-11/2017

St. Ann Intergenerational Center Milwaukee, WI

● Created Lesson plans for school agers by using my organizational skills.

● Engaged school agers with adult care to do intergenerational activities with the elderly.

● Assist students with homework.

● Engage students in group activities and life and leadership skills. Areas of Expertise, Core Knowledge and Skills:

● Create detailed college and career roadmaps and goals.

● Highly successful in building rapport with adolescents, families and community leaders

● Conversant with conducting site visits and outreach for neighboring organizations and schools.

● Provide guidance on project prioritization and other activities within organizations.

● Experience working with children and adults with special needs/autism.

● Program funding experience contributing to grant extensions.

● Curriculum and activity facilitation for children and childcare professionals.

● Creative programming implementation for children and young adults.

● College and Career Consultant

● Student success coach

● Youth Mentor

● Program and events facilitation

REFERENCES

Tou Fong Lee, Community Programs Coordinator

Diverse & Resilient

Em: ***********@*****.***

Cell: 414-***-****

Kristin Bischoff, Director of Future Forward/Boys and Girls Clubs Em: *************@*****.***

Cell: 414-***-****

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