Admission Practices Committee

Chair:  Louis Hirsh, Director of Admissions, University of Delaware

Members of the AP Committee:

  • Jenifer L. Blair, The Boys' Latin School of MD
  • Suzanne Colligan, Georgetown Visitation School (DC)
  • Florence Hines, McDaniel College (MD)
  • Betty Jones, Retired member (VA)
  • Joe Manning, James Madison University (VA)
  • Joe Monte, Albert Einstein High School (MD)
  • Greg Roberts, University of Virginia
  • Jake Talmage, St. Paul's School (MD)
  • Jonathan Webster, Washington and Lee University (VA)
  • Evelyn Boyd White, Thomas Dale High School (VA)
  • Martin Wilder, University of Mary Washington (VA)
  • Karl Wolf, Shepherd University (WV)

The Admission Practices (AP) Committee is charged with an annual review of the Statement of Principles of Good Practice (SPGP) of the National Association for College Admission Counseling and of the monitoring procedures that are used when a member institution of NACAC makes a formal complaint of an ethics violation against another member.  The AP Committee is expected to be aware of evolving new practices and procedures within the admissions counseling community and to recommend appropriate changes in the SPGP to the NACAC Admissions Practices Committee.

When Admission Practices complaints are filed against institutional members of the Potomac and Chesapeake affiliate of NACAC, the AP Committee is the body which investigates those charges using the SPGP as its guideline and complying with NACAC monitoring guidelines.  The identities of the institutions and individuals involved in a formal complaint are made known only to the AP Committee members and are otherwise anonymous. If the Committee determines that a violation has occurred, it will recommend appropriate action to the NACAC AP Committee.

At present, the Admission Practices Committee consists of experienced school counselors and college admission officers within PCACAC representing both secondary and post-secondary as well as public and private institutions, and includes members from each of the five states within our region.

Questions about possible SPGP violations may be directed to the AP Committee Chair.