Matthew Sidener

• Meet with 70+ prospective students and families each semester during on-campus recruitment visits
• Schedule interviews, hire, and train team of 15 Kinesiology department student ambassadors
• Advise 250+ students in areas of academic success, enrollment, and career development
• Increase Kinesiology department brand awareness through social media and website marketing
• Utilize social media analytics to optimize engagement and outreach with content

• Recruited prospective students through monthly on-campus and virtual admissions events
• Advised 300+ students through academic success, enrollment, and career planning
• Developed on-campus and virtual new student orientation for 100 incoming students involving outreach, onboarding, and advising
• Created and taught academic skills development course to 40 Freshman students each year
• Increased student retention through monthly student outreach campaigns via phone calls, emails, and text

Adjunct Instructor – Physical Education Weight Training

• Demonstrated proper exercise and lifting technique for safe and effective training
• Educated students on basic knowledge of anatomy, physiology, exercise, and nutrition.

• Trained youth, middle school, high school, and college athletes in both individual and group training sessions of up to 30 athletes
• Educated athletes on proper movement, warm-up, speed, agility, and strength training technique
• Programmed daily speed, agility, strength, and conditioning training for athletes.

• Engaged in prospective student outreach and recruitment of more than 600 students through phone and email outreach campaign
• Created campus visit itineraries for prospective students and families each week
• Supervised 20 campus tour guides as part of the MBU Tour Guide Program
• Led the staff hiring, training, scheduling, evaluation, and payroll of all campus tour guide employees
• Reviewed applications and made admission decisions for more than 1000 prospective students
• Collaborated with athletic coaches to organize campus visit schedules for athletic recruits.

• Met bi-weekly with 80-150 academically at-risk students each semester to provide individual and group academic coaching and advising
• Coached students in their development of study skills, time management, organization, motivation, goal setting, and utilization of campus resources.