{"id":9055,"date":"2015-12-09T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2015-12-09T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:35:04","slug":"thorp-86-focuses-admissions-on-alumni-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/12\/09\/thorp-86-focuses-admissions-on-alumni-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorp &#8217;86 focuses Admissions on Alumni  Recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike Thorp &#8217;86<\/strong> joined Wabash in May as the Dean for Enrollment Management.\u00a0 Admissions Counselor <strong>Tyler Wade &#8217;12<\/strong> shares this update on the department&#8217;s focus on alumni aiding admissions recruiting efforts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Wabash College Admissions Office has been incredibly busy since Mike Thorp \u201986 took over this summer as Dean for Enrollment Management.\u00a0 Among the first orders of business for Dean Thorp and his staff was a reimagination\/revitalization of our recruitment efforts involving Wabash Alumni.\u00a0 To that end, the staff in Admissions has relaunched \u201c<b>Spreading the Fame<\/b>,\u201d their alumni admissions newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>December\u2019s edition contains a passionate articulation of the value of a Wabash education from Dean Thorp, as well as inside information on the decision making process used by our Admissions staff in evaluating applications.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/alumni\/docs\/Spreading_The_Fame_December_15.pdf\">Click here<\/a> to read this month&#8217;s newsletter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9060\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Hayhurst-Grigsby-adm-fellows-2015.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9060\" alt=\"Jared Grigsby '01 pictured with fellow Alumni Admissions Fellow award winner David Hayhurst '83. Hayhurst recruited Grigsby to Wabash. \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Hayhurst-Grigsby-adm-fellows-2015.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Hayhurst-Grigsby-adm-fellows-2015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Hayhurst-Grigsby-adm-fellows-2015-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Alumni in Action:<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>Jared Grigsby &#8217;01<\/strong> (left) pictured with fellow 2015 Alumni Admissions Fellow award winner <strong>David Hayhurst &#8217;83<\/strong>. Hayhurst recruited Grigsby to Wabash!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Thorp &#8217;86 joined Wabash in May as the Dean for Enrollment Management.\u00a0 Admissions Counselor Tyler Wade &#8217;12 shares this update on the department&#8217;s focus on alumni aiding admissions recruiting efforts: &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Hayhurst-Grigsby-adm-fellows-2015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9064,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions\/9064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}