By Jill Miller
Staff Writer
Scott Mooberry, international and transfer enrollment counselor, poses for a shot in his office.
Scott Mooberry is finding out there is no such thing as a typical day in the life of an enrollment counselor. From travel to paperwork, there is always some sort of business to attend to.
“A typical day is a hard thing to define in the life of an enrollment counselor, because we’re just always running — running pretty fast all the time,” Mooberry said.
Most days involve a little travel, phone calls with prospective students, and administrative work, such as going over applications or turning in receipts from recent trips, he said.
He travels West Tennessee to meet with potential freshmen and said his recruiting territories are fairly localized this year. Counselors also cover national territory and sometimes international areas.
“I’ll be going to Asia at the end of October,” he said. “It’s like a two-, two-and-a-half week trip where there will be a six-country tour of Asia.”
Counselors travel to schools involved in the North American Coalition for Christian Admission Professionals to recruit international students for Union.
Those involved will visit Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan and Hong Kong, he said.
When he is not traveling, Mooberry does have a daily routine.
From 8 to 11 a.m., he does administrative work such as generating call lists, pulling files and examining progress and goals.
From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mooberry visits with prospective students. If no meetings are planned, he eats lunch with his wife, Christine, new head coach for the Lady Bulldogs volleyball team.
At the end of his day, from 2 to 5 p.m., Mooberry communicates with potential students on the phone, answers emails and plans travel.
“To try to have a healthy balance of work and home, I usually do a pretty good job of not working while I’m with my wife,” Mooberry said. “I’ll sometimes check email on my phone so that I can be prepared to answer those emails first thing in the morning.”
Mooberry is unique to the enrollment counseling team in that he did not graduate from Union. He earned his degree in biblical studies from Moody Bible Institute in 2001. From there, he and Christine were youth ministers in the Buffalo area for six years.
He said when they felt their time in ministry there was over, his wife got a job coaching volleyball at the college level. They moved to a private Christian school in North Carolina, where they stayed for four years.
“It was a good, natural progression from being in youth ministry at the junior and high school level to being able to work on campus with Christian college students,” Mooberry said.
The couple became familiar with Union through the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
“We heard about Union and what Union was doing and the way Union was doing Christian higher education, and when some positions opened up both for my wife and I, we put in for them,” Mooberry said.
Mooberry said he most enjoys talking with prospective students and their families about Union, how professors pour into their students and the Christian college experience versus attending a state school.
