John B. Lehman
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
Phone 906-487-1832
jblehman@mtu.edu
Education
Ph.D. College/University Leadership Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
M.A. Written Communications/Pedagogy Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan
B.A. English/Writing Adrian College Adrian, Michigan
Professional Experience
2013-Present
Associate Vice President for Enrollment, Marketing, and Communications
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
2015-Present
Faculty member, Academic Impressions, Denver, CO
2008-Present
Lead Facilitator, LeaderShape Institute, Champaign, IL
2005-2013
Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Services, Michigan Tech
2000-2005
Director Youth Programs & Educational Opportunity Advancement, Michigan Tech
1998-2000
Coordinator Youth Programs, Michigan Tech
1997-1998
Assistant Coordinator Youth Programs, Michigan Tech
1996-1997
Staff Assistant, Youth Programs, Michigan Tech
Enrollment Success
• Lead a thriving team of seven directors with over eighty staff members in the departments of Admissions, Career
Services (2012-present), Center for Precollege Outreach, Enrollment Services Information Systems, Financial Aid,
International Programs and Services, Registrar’s Office (2005-2012), and University Marketing and Communications,
with general fund budget over five million dollars and a financial aid general fund budget of $30 million.
• Developed the University’s first comprehensive enrollment plan, tenants of which include:
o Shifting institutional focus from enrollment to enrollment/revenue metrics
o Aligning university resources to create optimal mix of quantity, academic quality, and diversity in the
university’s student body
o Ensuring a data-rich environment to inform decisions and evaluate strategies
o Directing a healthy collaboration with academic deans, department chairs, and faculty to assist with
recruitment and enrollment objectives
o Despite a 2006 state ballot referendum similar to California’s Proposition 209, increasing diversity of
Michigan Tech’s study body
• Consistently outperformed University enrollment goals in gross enrollment, net-revenue, and academic standards
• On-campus student enrollment has increased 13% since 2005, incoming freshman ACT composite rose by 1.5 (25.2 to
27.0), recruited new international students from 48 different countries
• Increased female enrollment (underrepresented at a STEM-based institution) from 15% to 22% in the College of
Engineering, overall undergraduate female enrollment has grown from 19% to 28% since 2005
• Enrolled the most domestic-ethnically diverse freshmen class in the history of the institution in 2014
• Decreased institution’s incoming student tuition discount rate each year from 2010 to 2015.
Student Success, Development, and Service
• Oversee university Career Services department which has a 96% six-month placement rate and an average annual
starting salary of recent graduates of $62,800 – tenth highest for public universities in the nation
• Lead retention analysis efforts on campus which review and offered success programming for students deemed at
higher than normal risk of not retaining year 1 to year 2
• Serve as emergencies operation primary back-up director of institutional incident command team. Trained to NIMS
level 400
• Six years’ experience as responsible individual for all academic information records of the university, administration of
the academic requirements, University Calendar, course scheduling, registration process, classroom inventory
management, and other typical responsibilities of a university registrar
• Led efforts to open an institutional one-stop Student Service Center fall of 2010
• Developed a student-centered “culture of care” ethic among student service personnel
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Responsible for international student tracking and immigration compliance as well as all student life projects
associated with international students
Recruitment
• Lead an energetic and efficient team of on and off-campus recruiters enrolling students from over 40 states and
nearly 70 different countries
• Restructured admissions recruiter positions into territory managers, requiring staff to study their areas and make
informed and strategic decisions about their resources and time
• Oversee development of a comprehensive prospective student communication plan which includes:
o Centralizing and streamlining communications from all university sources to ensure students see, read, and
hear a consistent, coordinated, and strategic institutional voice
o Successfully implemented new contact management software (EMAS Recruitment/Telecounseling Pro)
o Utilized “the experts” (current students) in recruitment by developing an admissions tele-counseling center
as well as student ambassador high school visit program
o Developed an entirely new prospective student website (mtu.edu/admissions)
• Responsible for campus visit programs, established a spring program to “close the deal”
• Responsible for development, fund raising, and recruitment for annual engineering and science expo (YES! Expo) with
over 15,000 precollege students from the Detroit attending the annual program each year
• Utilize over ten years’ experience directing precollege, academic, residential programs serving 1,200-1,500 middle
and high school students each year to assist with recruitment efforts
Diversity Initiatives
• Enrollment of STEM-based female students increased by from 23% to 27% of student body (as a STEM based
institution, Michigan Tech looks to increase its female student population)
• Enrollment of new domestic minority students increased from 2005 to 2015
• Enrollment of international students increased from 9% to 15% of student body from 2005 to 2015
• Experienced in planning and implement precollege outreach to underrepresented populations as well as corporate
advancement fundraising often associated with such activity
Financial Aid Leveraging
• Effectively leverage a thirty million dollar financial aid budget
• Experience developing and utilizing systems and procedures using predictive modeling to target merit as well as needbased aid for utmost matriculation efficacy
• Utilize strategies to continually investigate areas of tuition elasticity
• Revised and centralized donor-funded scholarship award practices to provide maximum relief to institutional general
fund
• Instituted new merit-based scholarship programs for in-state, non-resident, as well as international students which
highlight University’s distinction
K-12 Outreach
• Developed externally funded STEM-based outreach initiatives giving nationwide exposure to institution
• Organize efforts to seek, promote, develop, and maintain resource development opportunities with individuals,
corporations, foundations, governments, civic organizations, schools, and parent groups
• Lead efforts to organize Michigan Tech’s Youth in Engineering and Science Expo at Ford Field in Detroit 2006-2008
• Successfully launched a precollege STEM-based hands-on “road-show” offering tent-style interactive educational
modules to students at such venues as the national Boy Scout jamboree, the Washington D.C. mall, Girl Scout
gatherings, etc.
• Developed and sustain partnerships with school districts and educational organizations with high concentrations of
underrepresented students
• Served on Detroit Area Precollege Engineering Programs (DAPCEP) programs committee from 1997 to 2005
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Organizational Membership
• STEMConnector Higher Education Council executive team member 2014-present
• National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)
o Region IV-E Regional Conference Co-chair 2013
o Region IV-E Treasurer 2009-2011
o Regional Conference Planning Committee 2009 & 2010
• National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC)
• American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)
• American Association of Engineering Educators (ASEE)
• American Marketing Association (AMA)
• College Day Coordinator for the State of Michigan’s King, Chavis, Parks Initiative 1996-2004
• Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Programs (DAPCEP)
o Program committee member 1996-2004
o Board of Directors member 2013-Present
Workshops/Institutes
• Faculty member for Auditing Customer Service on Your Campus – Webcast with Academic Impressions, to be
delivered January 2016
• Faculty member for Academic Impressions conference “Building a Customer Service Training Plan for Higher
Education”, July 2015
• NASPA Stevens Institute for Senior Student Affairs Officers, July 2007
• NASPA James E. Scott Academy's Critical Issues Institute, January 2006
• Michigan Equity Workshops (annually 1998-2005)
Professional Honors and Awards
• 2006 Michigan Tech Innovative Solutions staff council award
• 2004 Building the Future Award for National Outstanding Precollege Programming, Society of Manufacturing
Engineering (SME) Foundation
• Contributing Editor, “High Tech Hot Shots: Careers in Sports Engineering” Celeste Baine, National Society of
Professional Engineers press 2004
Presentations/Publications
• Holz, S., Lehman, J.B., “How Children of Student Affairs Professionals Make Meaning of Our Work” NASPA National
Conference, March 2016
• Lehman, J.B., “Using Qualitative Research to Better Understand the Enrollment Experience of Students” AACRAO
Strategic Enrollment Management National Conference, November 2015
• Lehman, J.B. “Partnering with Corporate America in Science and Engineering Festivals” Advancing a Jobs-Driven
Economy February 2015
• Holz, S., Lehman, J.B., “Navigating Workplace Politics for New Professionals” NASPA National Conference, March 2012
• Carter, A., Lehman, J.B., “The Three C's of a Successful Communication Plan: Creative, Collaborative, and CrossCampus” Noel-Levitz National Conference on Student Recruitment and Retention, July 2010
• Amato-Henderson S., Lehman, J.B., Cattelino P., “Outreach to Prospective Engineering Students: Assessing Michigan
Technological University’s YES! Expo” International Journal of Engineering Education Volume 25 Number 3, 2009
• Granger, H, Lehman, J.B. “Care or Coddle: The Role of Customer Service in Higher Education” AACRAO Strategic
Enrollment Management National Conference, November 2008
• Carter, A., Lehman, J.B., Tremblay, C. “Engaging Faculty in Undergraduate Recruitment: Perspectives, Suggestions and
Tips” AACRAO SEM Source publication, March 2008.
• Lehman, J. B., Tremblay, C., Carter, A., “Sure I'd be happy to do that and other unbelievable responses from faculty engaging academic units in the recruitment process.” AACRAO Strategic Enrollment Management National
Conference, October 2007
• Cook, L.P, Lehman, J.L, O’Connell, J.A., “Give ‘Em a Pickle, Throw Them a Fish: A Renewed Focus on Shaping Student
Service”, NASPA/ASCPA Joint National Conference, March 2007
• Cook, M., Lehman, J., Tremblay, C. “AACRAO Admissions Toolkit” AACRAO National Conference, February 2007
• Invited panel presentation member, “We're Not Talking About Diversity…We're Doing Something About It.” American
Society of Civil Engineers Diversity Conference, 2006
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Lehman, J.L., Raber, M.B., Stone, D.H., “Tech PrEP: Seeding Technology Careers via Michigan Tech University’s
Enterprise Program” Association of Engineering Education National Conference, 2005
Lehman, J.L., Tucker M.A., Martinez, A.L. “Program Mechanics for the Recruitment, Retention and Enrichment of
Urban and Latino Students and Parents in Pre-College Programming” Hispanics in Engineering National Conference,
2004
Lehman, J.B., Larsen, P.A. “University, Corporate, and Secondary Education Partnerships for Precollege Students”
Michigan Governor’s Conference on Career Development, 2003
Advisor for Student Groups:
• Michigan Tech ski and snowboard club, founding advisor, 2012-present
• Mu-Lambda Chapter, Tau Kappa Epsilon 2006-2013
• Leading Scholars Student Scholarship Organization 2007-Present
• Michigan Tech Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa 2005-2006
Other Interests
• Sunday school teacher and past council president, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) Chassell, MI
• Chassell Lions Club member, Chassell, MI
• Supporting participant and funder of high school athletic booster club, band and choir, Girl Scouts and Science Fair
• Actively involved volunteer with my daughter’s national figure skating organization
• Hopelessly addicted runner and mountain biker who enjoys any outdoor adventurous activity involving snow
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