Forrest Stuart

Forrest Stuart

Dr. Forrest Stuart is the Vice President for Enrollment Management at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Lafayette in January 2019, Forrest served as Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management and Director of Financial Aid at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, as director of financial aid at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and as assistant director of admission, assistant director of financial aid, and ultimately director of financial aid at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. In all, Forrest has 31 years of higher education administration experience. Forrest holds a PhD in Educational Leadership from Clemson University, concentrating in higher education administration. His dissertation, entitled Sustainable Enrollment Management: A Dynamic Network Analysis, focused on enrollment management as a complex adaptive system and examined the dynamic network structures of a current enrollment management department, how those structures can be optimized for efficient information diffusion, and how enrollment management leaders can enable a sustainable enrollment management system. Forrest is also interested in the law of contracts and agency as they pertain to admission and financial aid. Dr. Stuart has conducted several assessment consulting assignments for focusEDU in the financial aid area and provide expert assistance and advice for optimized best practices. Previously earned degrees of Forrest include a Master of Arts degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Alabama and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Resources Management from Birmingham-Southern College. Forrest and his wife, Pam, have two daughters: Emily, who is a graduate of TCU and now a certified, licensed athletic trainer in Waco, Texas, and Katelyn, who is a senior sociology major at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Forrest is an organist and has outside interests which include college football, boating, and Broadway musicals. On his “bucket list” are opportunities to conduct the orchestras for Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, and Wicked.