{"id":92749,"date":"2025-05-15T03:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T07:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=92749"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:21:57","slug":"utoledo-welcomes-undergraduate-recruitment-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_15_2025\/utoledo-welcomes-undergraduate-recruitment-leader","title":{"rendered":"UToledo Welcomes Undergraduate Recruitment Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo is welcoming a director of undergraduate recruitment to develop and implement the institution\u2019s student recruitment plans and lead the recruitment team.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Shepherd, an enrollment leader with experience in student recruitment, advising and admissions, joined UToledo on May 12.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92751\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92751\" class=\"wp-image-92751\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sarah-Shepherd-STORY.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Sarah Shepherd, who recently joined UToledo as director of undergraduate recruitment.\" width=\"305\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sarah-Shepherd-STORY.jpg 381w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sarah-Shepherd-STORY-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shepherd<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Throughout her career, Shepherd has worked with domestic and international students both in admissions and in program management for English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, gaining a broad understanding of enrollment management and experience in event planning and visitor experience, marketing and student outreach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to have Sarah on our team and look forward to gaining even more momentum from her insights and experiences,\u201d said Tony Bourne, vice president for strategic enrollment management. \u201cSarah is bringing a valuable additional perspective to UToledo Enrollment Management. The University will benefit from her leadership over undergraduate recruitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly excited to return to The University of Toledo,\u201d said Shepherd, who is a UToledo alumna, earning a Master of Education in higher education and administration as a Rocket. \u201cThis University gave me opportunity, mentorship and lifelong connections. Now, I get to give back by helping future students find their path here. Here is to new beginnings in a familiar place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining UToledo, Shepherd served in admissions roles at the University of Cincinnati, Appalachian State University and Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>She most recently was an academic advisor for the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. She also held positions of director of admissions at Wright State University, director of admissions, first-year and international at Appalachian State University and served the University of Cincinnati as a program manager of the accelerated college English program and senior admissions counselor.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd also has a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science from Bowling Green State University and graduate certificate in marketing from the University of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_15_2025\/utoledo-welcomes-undergraduate-recruitment-leader\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Sarah-Shepherd-SIDE-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Photo of Sarah Shepherd, who recently joined UToledo as director of undergraduate recruitment.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Sarah Shepherd, an enrollment leader with experience in student recruitment, advising and admissions, joined UToledo on May 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":92750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92781,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92749\/revisions\/92781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}