About me
Dr. Forrest Stuart is the vice president for enrollment management at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Prior to assuming this role at Lafayette, Dr. Stuart served as Lafayette’s assistant vice president for financial aid. Prior to joining Lafayette in January 2019, Dr. Stuart served as associate vice president for enrollment management and director of financial aid at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, as director of financial aid at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and as assistant director of admission, assistant director of financial aid, and ultimately director of financial aid at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. In all, Dr. Stuart has 35 years of higher education administration experience. Dr. Stuart is a past president of the Tennessee Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and has served on the boards of the Alabama Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and the Southern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators as well as on the national and regional CSS councils of the College Board. Dr. Stuart holds a PhD in Educational Leadership from Clemson University, concentrating in higher education, a Master of Arts degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Alabama, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Resources Management from Birmingham-Southern College. Dr. Stuart is also interested in the law of contracts and agency as it pertains to admission and financial aid. Dr. Stuart and his wife, Pam, have two daughters: Emily, 28, is a graduate of both TCU and Baylor and serves as the interprofessional educational program assistant director at the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth, TX, and Kate, 25, is a graduate of Furman University and is currently pursuing a career in diagnostic medical sonography and lives in Greenville, SC.
