Call for abstracts: Reimagining Graduate Enrollment Management: Leadership, Equity, and Data-Informed Strategy

2025-12-21

This volume examines how rapid changes in data analytics, artificial intelligence, equity imperatives, organizational structures, and student expectations are reshaping graduate enrollment management (GEM). Drawing on practice-informed scholarship and institutional case studies, the book positions GEM as a strategic, cross-campus function central to enrollment sustainability, student success, and institutional resilience.

Suggested Titles

  1. Reframing Graduate Enrollment Management as an Institutional Strategy

  2. AI in Graduate Admissions: Opportunities, Risks, and Ethical Practice

  3. Data-Informed Decision-Making: Modeling, Benchmarking, and ROI

  4. From Inquiry to Enrollment: Designing the Graduate Student Lifecycle

  5. Equity, Belonging, and Cultural Competence in GEM Practice

  6. International Graduate Enrollment: Policy, Process, and Student Experience

  7. Integrated Operations: Centralization, Decentralization, and Scale

  8. Staffing, Supervision, and Professional Development in GEM Offices

  9. Faculty Collaboration and Shared Ownership of Enrollment Goals

  10. Leadership Pathways and the Future of the GEM Profession

Submission Guidelines [via online form)

  • Abstract: 100–120 words

  • Chapter length: up to 4,500 words (including references)

  • Methodologies welcome: conceptual, empirical, institutional case studies, reflective practice

  • Contributors may include: faculty, enrollment professionals, administrators, researchers, and advanced graduate students

STAR Scholars Press will publish this volume as part of its higher education book series. Open-access options and publication fee waivers or discounts may be available.

Contact 

Please send abstracts or inquiries to publications@starscholars.org
Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Full chapters due: August 15