Trajectory

Additional topics include preparing for standardized exams such as the GRE, building a long-term application timeline, and developing effective interview skills.

Suzanne McCray serves as vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and nationally competitive awards at the University of Arkansas. She is also an associate professor in the Higher Education Program in the College of Education and Health Professions where she teaches courses on the history of and trends in higher education and strategic enrollment management. She was tasked with creating an enrollment services division for the U of A in 2009. Total enrollment at the University of Arkansas has increased more than half, and the freshman class has more than doubled in size during her tenure. She is active in the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the Association of Chief Admissions Officers of Public Universities, the SEC Enrollment Managers Association, and the National Association of Fellowships Advisors. In the fall of 2023, she will begin serving as chair of College Board’s National Academic Assembly and as a member of the Board of Trustees. She has also been a member of the Advanced Placement Higher Education Advisory Committee and has served as chair of the Southwestern Regional Council.

Prior to her work in enrollment, she served as the associate dean and interim dean  of the honors college at the U of A. She has edited or co-edited eight volumes of essays on the topic of nationally competitive scholarships published by the University of Arkansas Press. The most recent is Wild about Harry:  Everything You Have Ever Wanted to Know about the Truman Scholarship (2021), co-edited with Tara Yglesias, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Truman Foundation. In 2019, she received the National Association of Fellowships Advisors’ inaugural exemplary service award.

She earned a B.A. (with high honors) and an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee.