Muma named senior associate VP for enrollment management at Wichita State
In making the announcement, WSU President John Bardo said Muma will take the overarching responsibility of moving students through the admission and enrollment process, as well as retention and degree completion programming.
Although staff working on enrollment are doing good work, better coordination is needed to grow the university's enrollment, says Bardo.
Muma has served as associate vice president for Academic Affairs and Professor of Public Health Sciences at WSU since 2011. He has nearly 30 years experience as an educator/administrator in both the public health and physician assistant disciplines. He started at WSU in 1994.
"Rick Muma is the ideal person to coordinate and lead this effort at Wichita State," said Tony Vizzini, provost and senior vice president. "He enables and empowers his team to provide creative solutions to address concerns."
In his new position, Muma will join the executive team and he will continue to report to the provost.
"I'm looking forward to this new challenge of working more broadly inside and outside the university to assure we have enrollment growth, student success, and most importantly, degree completion," said Muma. "Top priorities will be working to grow a diverse student body, providing supportive student services and timely graduation."