Interview with DJ Menifee

DJ Menifee joined the Susquehanna University community as vice president for enrollment in May 2020. As a member of the senior leadership team, DJ oversees a team of 20 in the offices of admission and student financial services and serves as the university s strategy and policy leader on all matters relating to student enrollment. Most recently he served as director of admission at Butler University, Indianapolis, where he led a 25-member team that managed applications for first-year, transfer, international recruitment and graduate programs. In alignment with the university s strategic enrollment plan, DJ led successful collaborative teams with the goals of increasing out-of-state enrollment, attracting more diverse students as first-year and transfer students and enrolling three of the four largest classes in university history, in addition to strengthening collaborative relationships across the campus community. DJ currently serves as a board director for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling and has served on the executive boards for Indiana and Illinois Associations for College Admissions Counseling. Menifee earned his bachelor s degree in business administration from Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina, in 2007, and his master s degree in instructional design and technology from Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, in 2013.