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  • Friday, April 10, 2026
  • 7:00am - 8:00am East Coast USA Time
    Continental Breakfast
  • 7:00am - 4:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Exhibits Open
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Registration
  • 8:00am - 9:00am East Coast USA Time
    Plenary Session - Leading from the Top: Insights from Executive Leaders in Graduate Admissions
  • 9:00am - 9:45am East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 9:45am - 10:45am East Coast USA Time
    Addressing Unique Needs Without Naming Differences for Students in Science and Healthcare
  • 9:45am - 10:45am East Coast USA Time
    Borders, Bias, and Bureaucracy: The Current Administration’s Impact on Graduate Admissions in Higher Education
  • 9:45am - 10:45am East Coast USA Time
    From Chaos to Clarity: Scaling Transcript Evaluation Operations in Slate
  • 9:45am - 10:45am East Coast USA Time
    I Know Where You're Coming From: Relatability as an Enrollment Management Tool
  • 9:45am - 10:45am East Coast USA Time
    Reading the Right Signals: What Graduate Applicant Behavior Means (and What It Doesn’t)
  • 9:45am - 10:45am East Coast USA Time
    The Online Graduate Student: What They Want, What They Expect, and How They Choose
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Balancing niche and broad-appeal programs, and successfully recruiting for both
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Best Practices for Admissions Integrity and Innovation with AI: Results from the Fall 2025 ETS/NAGAP Survey
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Bridging the Gaps: Implementing Graduate Enrolment Management in a Decentralized Institution
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Centralizing Your Graduate Enrollment Strategy: Lessons from Rapid Growth
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Engineering National Graduate Institutional Name Exchange (ENGINE)
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Maximizing People, Minimizing Costs: How Strategic Alignment Powers Graduate Recruitment and Retention
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Meeting Students Where They Are: The Non-Linear Path to Enrollment
  • 11:00am - 12:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Setting the New Standard: Expanded 2026 Benchmarks for Graduate Marketing Cost Per Enrollment (MCPE)
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm East Coast USA Time
    NAGAP Business Meeting AND Lunch
  • 1:00pm - 4:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Help Desk
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm East Coast USA Time
    ADVANCED ROUNDTABLE: TBD
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Career Connected Graduate Recruitment: How Graduate Schools Compete and Win in an ROI Driven Market
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Don't Just Survive … THRIVE: A GEM Blueprint for Competing in a Dynamic Marketplace
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Leveraging Data Analytics to Support the Tech Talent Investment Program
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Micro-Adjustments, Macro Results: Rethinking Inquiry Response in Graduate Enrollment
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Navigating the Harbor: Streamlining International Processes to Support Enrollment Growth
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Strategic Staffing in Graduate Admissions: Using Data to Do More with Less
  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm East Coast USA Time
    The Revenue Lever Nobody's Pulling: How Visibility Drives Graduate Enrollment Growth
  • 2:30pm - 3:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Education is a Business: Using ROI Data to Have Hard Conversations
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Hot Topics, Hard Truths: A Roundtable on the Future of Enrollment
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Increase Yield and Grow Enrollment
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Old Bay & New Bonds: Building Strong Relationships with Program Directors
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm East Coast USA Time
    On the Margins -- How to use available data to improve enrollment management
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Smart Docs, Stronger Systems: Creating Standard Operating Procedures with Scribe
  • 3:15pm - 4:15pm East Coast USA Time
    The Middle Manager’s Toolkit: Balancing Upward and Downward Leadership
  • 5:30pm - 6:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Emerging Leaders Reception (BY INVITATION ONLY)