Steven W. Nape
Interim Dean of Enrollment Management
Steven Nape is the founder and CEO of Fifth Postulate LLC, a consultancy serving higher
education, nonprofits and industry with quantitative and qualitative analysis. He
formerly served as dean of enrollment management at Sweet Briar from 2012 to 2013.
Nape began his career at Gordon College in Barnesville, Ga., where he served as director
of institutional research and director of enrollment services. In 2000, he moved to
Randolph-Macon College, serving as director of admissions, then dean of admissions
and financial aid. From 2009 to 2011 he was vice provost for enrollment planning and
management at Radford University. Nape came to Sweet Briar in 2012 from Enrollment
Intelligence, an enrollment management consultancy where he served as the managing
vice president.
He holds a bachelor’s with a double major in philosophy and economics from the
University of South Carolina, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
He also received his Ph.D. in economics from USC.