Associate Provost for Enrollment Management
Mike Scott
As Associate Provost for Enrollment Management, Scott serves as TCU’s Chief Enrollment Officer, providing leadership and oversight for the Division of Enrollment Management. He and the enrollment team are charged with ensuring that TCU achieves its strategic goals related to recruiting and graduating undergraduate students who enhance and contribute to our vibrant and diverse academic community, as well as meeting important operational goals related to net-tuition revenue.
Scott joined TCU as a member of the financial aid staff in 1988 and became director of Financial Aid in 1996. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the Chancellor’s Executive Leadership Intern, a cabinet-level position working with senior leadership to learn strategic planning, resource allocation, budget development, and policy issues. He assumed the newly created role of Associate Provost for Enrollment Management in 2018. He holds a BFA and MBA, both from TCU. He has served on the advisory boards of a variety of organizations and is a member of multiple higher education associations.
Reporting Units
Undergraduate Admission
Led by Dean Heath Einstein, the Office of Undergraduate Admission is responsible for identifying, recruiting and enrolling a class of approximately 2,400 first-year and 500 transfer students each year. To meet this target, Dean Einstein and his staff process more than 20,000 applications for admission, travel to numerous states and foreign countries, host students and their families on campus for events, and send thousands of individual communications.
Enrollment Systems and Analytics
Led by Assistant Provost Kevin McDonald, this unit is responsible for the overall technical and analytical support of enrollment services. The enrollment division receives and generates an enormous amount of data. It also relies on multiple CRMs and software systems that are essential to analyzing, managing, and utilizing that data. Kevin and his team provide the technical and analytical skills needed to create enrollment models, develop financial aid strategies, provide revenue forecasts, and build communication plans that affect every area of the division.
Scholarship and Student Financial Aid
Led by Executive Director Victoria Chen, TCU’s financial aid office manages and oversees the awarding and distribution of over $480 million in financial assistance to approximately 12,000 TCU students each year. The office is essential to a successful enrollment management strategy. Once enrolled, the financial aid staff continues to work with and support students and their families from the first day of class to graduation. The financial aid office ensures TCU’s compliance with a myriad of Federal, State, donor-designated and institutional rules, regulations and audits.
Student Records
Dr. Nichole Mancone Fisher oversees the management and leadership of the Office of the Registrar. Once a prospective student submits an enrollment deposit, the Registrar immediately assumes responsibility for the safe and accurate maintenance of the student’s official academic records. The Registrar partners with deans, associate deans, and faculty to establish course schedules and room assignments that meet academic requirements and facilitate a path to degree completion for all students. The office provides certification and oversees compliance for a variety of areas, including NCAA academic eligibility regulations and the administration of veterans’ educational benefits.