Guest Profile

DJ Menifee

DJ Menifee joined the Susquehanna University community as vice president for enrollment in May 2020. As a member of the senior leadership team, DJ oversees a team of 20 in the offices of admission and student financial services and serves as the university’s strategy and policy leader on all matters relating to student enrollment. Most recently he served as director of admission at Butler University, Indianapolis, where he led a 25-member team that managed applications for first-year, transfer, international recruitment and graduate programs. In alignment with the university’s strategic enrollment plan, DJ led successful collaborative teams with the goals of increasing out-of-state enrollment, attracting more diverse students as first-year and transfer students and enrolling three of the four largest classes in university history, in addition to strengthening collaborative relationships across the campus community. DJ currently serves as a board director for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling and has served on the executive boards for Indiana and Illinois Associations for College Admissions Counseling. Menifee earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina, in 2007, and his master’s degree in instructional design and technology from Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, in 2013.