NACAC’s national conference offers members a chance to learn and grow. It also signals the beginning of a new year for the association’s Board of Directors.

Over the weekend, the following occurred:

• Stefanie Niles, vice president for enrollment and communications at Ohio Wesleyan University, assumed the NACAC presidency.
• Jayne Caflin Fonash, director of school counseling at The Academies of Loudon (VA), was voted president-elect.
• Four individuals joined the Board of Directors. Sara Brookshire, director of admissions, Brandeis University (MA) and Stephen Pultz, assistant vice president for enrollment, University of San Diego (CA), were elected to three-year terms. Ken Redd, senior director of research and policy at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (DC), was appointed to serve a one-year term on the board. Mark Steinlage, Jr., associate dean of admission at Saint Louis University (MO),  joined the board for one year as a board director and coordinator of the NACAC Affiliate Presidents Council.

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