As I mentioned in my competency reflection essay on Leadership, one of the most recent recent ways I have demonstrated leadership was in my job at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences graduate admissions office. In the last year, we have transitioned our nursing programs from our old admissions platform onto NursingCAS, the centralized application service for nursing programs. This application platform gives us access to a national pool of applicants, and boosts our visibility among applicants. This transition was not just a technological adjustment for our program directors: using the new platform required a paradigm shift for those evaluating applications to Northeastern’s nursing school. My response required working directly with the nursing program directors in Bouvé to gain their buy-in.

These artifacts are Local Status Guides that I created and sent to the nursing program directors to help them understand how applicants move through the application process in WebAdMIT, which is the admissions platform that receives NursingCAS applications. A Local Status tells us where the applicant is in the process, and where they need to go next. Changing a Local Status in WebAdMIT sometimes triggers emails to be sent or affects applications in other ways, so it’s important that instructions be clear and simple to understand. Although these guides are just a small part of my involvement in the many steps and meetings involved in transitioning programs to NursingCAS, they represent the final step in that process.