Enrollment Services

The mission of the Enrollment Services Division is to develop and implement strategies that ensure the opportunity for full participation of all students to attain access to, success in, and graduation from Coastal Carolina University. As a provider of services to students, parents, faculty, and staff, the Enrollment Services Division seeks to expand, enhance, and improve the quality of its services. Enrollment Services, through cooperation with Academic Affairs and Student Affairs, works to support and recommend campus-wide policies, programming, instruction, and other activities for the benefit of prospective and current students.

The Enrollment Services Division consists of the following units:

• Admissions, which administers admissions policies and procedures.
• Orientation, which conducts programs for new students that provide a smooth transition into the collegiate environment.
• Financial Aid & Scholarships, which oversees the awarding of institutional, state, federal and other forms of financial assistance.
• Welcome Center, which provides introductory information about Coastal Carolina University, administers some admissions procedures, and offers campus tours.

Administration:

• Dr. Judy Vogt, Vice President, Enrollment Services
• Greg Thornburg, Interim Assistant Vice President
• Amanda Craddock, Director of Undergraduate Enrollment
• Meredith Kahl, Director of Enrollment Events/Associate Director Admissions
• Mark Garrison, Senior Associate Director of Admissions Technology

Office of Admissions

The Office of Admissions is responsible for marketing the University to its many student constituent groups and processing their applications to enroll new and returning students who seek to attend a comprehensive liberal arts institution. Among its many student groups, the Office of Admissions recruits and enrolls traditional freshman, transfer, readmit, non-traditional, and graduate students.

The Office of Admissions seeks to enroll a talented student body from a variety of ethnic, economic and geographic backgrounds. Among its functions, the Office of Admissions identifies prospective student markets, develops recruitment literature and methods of outreach to these markets, implements recruitment outreach and counseling to identified markets, receives and processes admissions applications electronically, evaluates application files and makes admissions decisions, corresponds with accepted applicants through matriculation, performs initial transfer assessment for academic credit, finalizes matriculant files for the Registrar, and evaluates residency status for all new and readmitted students.

Orientation

Coastal Carolina's Orientation program is designed to assist new students in making a successful transition into University life. All new freshmen and transfer students are required to attend Orientation. At each Orientation session, new students receive their class schedule as well as information on campus activities and services as they learn their way around campus and make connections with Coastal's faculty, staff, and students. Two-day Orientation sessions for freshmen and one-day sessions for transfers occur throughout the summer, and there is also a one-day session in January for students planning to begin their studies in the spring. Freshmen are required to take math and foreign language (French, German, or Spanish) placement tests on the Internet prior to attending an Orientation session. For information about placement in other foreign languages taught at Coastal, please refer to the "Placement" section under the Department of World Languages and Cultures.

While students are attending Orientation, parents and family members are encouraged to attend a Parent Orientation program that addresses questions and concerns regarding academic policies, residence life, health and safety issues, and other services available to students. Registration materials for Orientation are mailed to students once they have been accepted, and information is also available on the Office of Admissions web site: www.coastal.edu/admissions.

Financial Aid & Scholarships

The mission of the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships is to support and assist the University in accomplishing its aspirations, specifically through the Enrollment Services Strategic Initiatives, while assisting students and parents in identifying possible sources of financial assistance in meeting the cost of education at Coastal Carolina University.

Financial aid available for Coastal students is derived from federal and state government sources such as scholarships, grants, work-study, loans and Veterans Educational Benefits. Additional scholarships are provided by Coastal Carolina University, along with other funds available through private and public sources.

To determine whether or not a student is eligible for federal student financial aid programs, the student and his/her family must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by March 1 each year for priority consideration. The University expects students and their families to share in the responsibility to meet the costs of college.

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