Executive Search and Interim Leadership

Hardwick-Day collaborates with Academic Search to offer an executive search service focused on chief enrollment officers. A second service aggressively recruits and/or develops internal candidates for financial aid director. Hardwick-Day principals serve as interim enrollment management, admission, and financial aid leaders. The firm also develops customized training and mentoring for new enrollment, admissions, and financial aid leaders.

Search: Chief Enrollment Officers

Hardwick-Day collaborates with Academic Search to assist colleges and universities in the identification, recruitment, and selection of senior-level enrollment officers. Academic Search was the first and remains the principal consulting firm conducting executive searches for college and university presidents, provosts, and academic deans. This year, Academic Search expanded its search services to include all members of the campus leadership team. More...

Search: Financial Aid Directors

Financial Aid Executives, always crucial to the successful recruitment and student life on campus, have come to fill a strategic role. Directors are now required to understand and manage not only the arcane world of financial aid, but also the increasingly sophisticated role that aid strategy plays in delivering a class in terms of numbers, but a class with a particular set of characteristics that reflect strategic enrollment goals. Many colleges struggle to fill these key positions. More...

Interim Leadership: Enrollment and Admissions

When a college or university finds itself in between enrollment or admission leaders, Hardwick-Day principals can step into the breach.  In addition to ensuring that operations proceed as needed, they can take advantage of opportunities for improvements inherent in any change of leadership. Hardwick-Day principals have served as interim leaders for the colleges and universities listed below.  For more information, please contact Jim Day.

Interim Leadership: Financial Aid

David Busse and Herald Johnson have nearly 75 years of combined experience working in financial aid offices, much of that time at the director level. Since “retiring,” both David and Herald have filled interim financial aid leadership positions, sometimes on a week’s notice. A few of the places at which they’ve pinch hit include St. Mary’s College in Indiana, St. John’s College in Annapolis, the University of Portland, and the California Institute of Technology. More...