{"id":3977,"date":"2012-12-14T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/magazines\/vanderbilt-business\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:18:24","slug":"new-admissions-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/new-admissions-director\/","title":{"rendered":"New admissions director"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3979\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3979  \" title=\"St-John_250\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/legacy\/i\/St-John_250.jpg\" alt=\"St-John \" width=\"250\" height=\"404\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St-John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Owen School has named Christie St-John, MA\u201994, PhD\u201999, as its new Director of Admissions, effective Oct. 1, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>St-John returns to Vanderbilt from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she served as Senior Associate Director of Admissions and Recruiting since 2004. St-John began her MBA admissions career at Vanderbilt in 1997, overseeing international recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>Previously St-John held roles in marketing, as well as in oil and gas trading. A Nashville native, she holds a master\u2019s degree and doctorate from Vanderbilt. St-John has lived abroad and traveled to 70 countries for both work and pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome Christie back to Vanderbilt,\u201d says Dean Jim Bradford. \u201cShe combines a vast global experience with a keen understanding and appreciation of what makes a top graduate management program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tami Fassinger, Chief Recruiting Officer for Owen, adds that St-John will also play a key role in the school\u2019s larger strategy of aligning incoming student career objectives with placement results on a broad geographic scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristie\u2019s ability to relate to our global talent pool is invaluable to where we\u2019re going as a school. We\u2019re glad to have her back on our team,\u201d Fassinger says. \u201cI hired Christie in her first tenure at Vanderbilt. We\u2019ve missed her talent, as well as her international mindset and far-reaching network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St-John will handle recruiting and admissions for the full-time MBA program and one-year MS Finance program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVanderbilt has seen a great deal of positive momentum in recent years,\u201d St-John says. \u201cI am pleased to have the opportunity to increase the school\u2019s reach, both in the U.S. and globally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Owen School has named Christie St-John, MA\u201994, PhD\u201999, as its new Director of Admissions, effective Oct. 1, 2012. St-John returns to Vanderbilt from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she served as Senior Associate Director of Admissions and Recruiting since 2004. St-John began her MBA admissions career at Vanderbilt in 1997, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,8],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departments","category-inside-owen","tag-fall2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}