Galen Graber consults directly with campuses on achieving enrollment growth through financial aid programs. He offers more than 25 years of experience in higher education.
Previous campus experience
Mr. Graber served in many roles at Goshen College (IN), most recently as director of institutional research. Prior to that, he served as director of enrollment, director of financial aid, and registrar, in addition to serving two years as director of the study abroad program in the Dominican Republic. When he started at Goshen as a member of the I.T. department, he helped write and support Goshen’s campus software system.
While serving in admissions, he led a team which achieved a 23 percent first-year enrollment increase within two years while also increasing freshman retention by four percent. He helped improve the efficiency of the financial aid office by designing systems to deliver first-year awards in late February instead of April. He also helped create and implement an athletic aid index system which rewarded high achieving student-athletes and raised the average GPA for athletes from 3.04 to 3.23.
Education
Mr Graber has a BA from Goshen College and has completed graduate work in applied statistics.