| HAVERFORD
COLLEGE APPOINTS JESS H. LORD AS DEAN
OF ADMISSION AND FINANCIAL AID
Haverford College has appointed Jess
H. Lord to the position of Dean of Admission and Financial Aid,
effective July 1, 2005. Lord is currently Senior Associate Dean
of Admissions at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. The appointment
comes after a comprehensive national search process that started
last fall and that engaged students, faculty, administrators, alumni,
and Board members.
“Jess impressed everyone in the community with
the depth of his knowledge, his commitment to liberal arts education,
and his ready understanding of the special virtues of Haverford,”
said Thomas R. Tritton, president of the College.
Lord has worked in admissions at Pomona since August
1999 and has managed the day-to-day operations of the office since
June 2001. In addition to his regular travel workload, application
evaluation and assessment, and interviewing, Lord has been involved
in the overall processes of admission policy and decision-making
for Pomona, including issues such as the recruitment and enrollment
of students of color, the integration of technology with all facets
of the admission process, and managing a large-scale computer conversion
project. He also has had direct involvement with hiring of all staff,
served on a college-wide Web site redesign team, and supervised
the publications committee. He also coordinated office travel and
oversaw international admissions.
Prior to Pomona, Lord was an admission officer (1994-1996),
assistant director (1996-1999) and associate director (1999) in
the Brown University Office of Admission.
“I am honored by the opportunity to serve the
Haverford College community as the next Dean of Admission and Financial
Aid,” Lord said. “I have long held deep admiration for
Haverford and the special place it holds in the spectrum of higher
education, and I am enormously excited to join this community myself."
Lord is a graduate of Westtown School and continued
his education at Brown, where he earned a B.A. in Modern European
History, with significant coursework in literature, religious studies,
and international relations. He is a member of the Hartford (Conn.)
Monthly Meeting and currently attends the Orange Grove (Pasadena,
Calif.) Monthly Meeting. His wife, Andrea Nuneviller, a Souderton,
Pa., native and Brown University graduate, is a middle school teacher
at the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. They have a daughter, Emma,
2.
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