About
Customized Solutions for Small Colleges
At Small College Consulting, we excel in offering tailored solutions that cater to the distinctive needs of small colleges. Through collaboration with a network of reliable affiliate consultants and strategic partners, we equip institutions with top-notch services to realize their goals and tackle pressing challenges. Our all-encompassing approach—ranging from focused assessments and strategic planning to interim leadership and ongoing advising—ensures each college benefits from personalized support and expert guidance. We are dedicated to empowering small colleges to flourish by aligning innovative strategies with their missions, promoting growth, and delivering measurable success.
Our Team
Chris Coons
Partner
Enrollment Management
Alma mater: West Virginia Wesleyan College
Chris brings 30 years of enrollment management experience to clients and has a proven track record of helping institutions increase new student and total enrollment. He has worked for five different small colleges and was chief enrollment officer for two of them.
After leaving the campus side, he joined Underscore, a dedicated Slate development and optimization company, as business development and enrollment consultant. After Underscore merged with Carnegie, Chris worked with several small colleges in helping them exceed new student enrollment goals.
Chris is an experienced facilitator for admissions trainings and workshops and brings to the team his unrivaled knowledge of enrollment best practices and enrollment strategy.
Scott Novak
Partner
Enrollment Marketing
Alma mater: Susquehanna University
For the last 30 years, Scott has been an authority on market trends in the industry, with an unrivaled ability to anticipate the marketing needs of small colleges and universities across the country.
Scott was the founder of Underscore, a dedicated Slate development and optimization company, which became part of Carnegie in 2021. As Chief Development Officer at Carnegie, Scott started the Carnegie "Small College Initiative." You can listen to his podcast, "Small College Movement" and follow him on social channels.
Scott has worked with more than 300 small colleges and universities in his career in helping them achieve their marketing and enrollment goals.