Anne Prisco

Anne Prisco came to Loyola Marymount University in September 2006 as vice president for Enrollment Management. She also teaches in the School of Education doctoral program. Prisco works closely with the academic leadership and across the institution on enrollment and retention initiatives and strategic planning, and oversees the following offices: Undergraduate Admission, Financial Aid, Office of the Registrar, International Students Admission  and the Center for Global Education. She brings to her position more than 25 years of experience in higher education where she has served in a number of roles including administrator, faculty member, consultant and policy researcher.

Throughout her career, Prisco has worked successfully with diverse communities. In her position as vice president for Enrollment Management, she leads efforts that foster collaborations to develop a more cohesive enrollment services infrastructure that supports institutional and student success. In addition, she promotes the University’s strategic goal to foster global education and increase the number of international students enrolled at LMU. Her involvement includes chairing and serving on a number of committees that focus on enrollment, transfer students, internationalization, retention, and intercultural initiatives. She is committed to the LMU mission as reflected in the Enrollment Management vision statement.

Prisco earned her bachelor’s degree in family and consumer science at the University of Arizona, where she graduated summa cum laude and was named Outstanding Senior; holds an MBA in finance from Fordham University; and earned her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in an interdisciplinary program in economics and education from Colombia University. Prior to coming to LMU, Prisco was the vice provost at Hunter College of the City of New York, with responsibility for a myriad of areas that supported student success and promoted the academic mission of this urban institution, to include institutional research, study abroad, graduate admissions, the Hunter Campus Schools (K-12) and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Prisco worked with Lehman College, CUNY, located in the Bronx, NY, a majority-minority institution. As the associate provost, she led a portfolio of departments focused on enrollment and academic programs and services. Prisco was an educational advocate in the Bronx, supporting the work for a number of high school outreach programs as well as grant projects, including two Title V grants, and served on the Board for the Bronx Economic Development Council.

Her research and scholarly interest are in the areas of education and human capital, including educational access, financing and leadership. She has presented at numerous conferences and held several faculty appointments, including St. John’s University, where she taught courses in economics and management. Her interest in international education is reflected in her research policy work with NYU’s Alliance for International Higher Education Policy Studies and her dissertation, “Trends in Wage Inequality in Italy during the 1990s: Why a University Degree Now Matters,” an empirical study that examined educational access and socioeconomic disparities.