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App State announces appointment of senior director of admissions

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Kimberly Holley, Appalachian State University’s newly appointed senior director of admissions. Photo submitted

By Cindy Barr
Posted July 10, 2020 at 1:12 p.m.

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University announces the appointment of Kimberly Holley as its senior director of admissions. Holley will begin her position in Appalachian’s Office of Admissions — a unit of the Division of Enrollment Management — July 20.

Holley, who has over 15 years of experience in college admissions, has served in both undergraduate and graduate admissions capacities at private and public institutions. She has worked with students from marginalized populations while assisting organizations with improving the overall diversity of their enrollment.

Most recently, Holley served as the associate director of admissions for North Carolina State University’s Jenkins MBA program, where she was responsible for leading the recruitment strategy of the MBA program. With Holley as its leader, the MBA recruitment team effectively met the program’s enrollment goals.

As an innovative strategic leader, Kimberly developed and facilitated an MBA course on effective diversity management. She is also a qualified administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), an assessment tool for intercultural competence — the capability to shift cultural perspective and appropriately adapt behavior to cultural differences and commonalities, according to the IDI website.

Prior to joining NC State, Holley served as associate director of admissions for the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. She also served as director of multicultural recruitment at Elon University, where she successfully led the school’s diversity recruitment efforts.

She has facilitated workshops and presentations on multicultural student recruitment, supporting first-generation college students and the college admissions process.

Holley is the current president of the Southeastern Association of Graduate Admission Professionals and an active member of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Africana studies and cinema from Binghamton University and her Master of Science in communications management from Simmons University.

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The Division of Enrollment Management at Appalachian State University is responsible for planning, implementing, assessing and providing services and programs that promote student success — from pre-enrollment through graduation. The division comprises the Office of Admissions, Office of Online and Transfer Services, Office of the Registrar, Office of Student Financial Aid and University Scholarships, and College Access Partnerships. Learn more at https://em.appstate.edu.

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As the premier public undergraduate institution in the state of North Carolina, Appalachian State University prepares students to lead purposeful lives as global citizens who understand and engage their responsibilities in creating a sustainable future for all. The Appalachian Experience promotes a spirit of inclusion that brings people together in inspiring ways to acquire and create knowledge, to grow holistically, to act with passion and determination, and to embrace diversity and difference. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Appalachian is one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina System. Appalachian enrolls more than 20,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate majors.

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