The following is a transcript of our April 13, 2026 interview with President Martin A. Schmidt ’81. The transcript has been cleaned up for clarity. The Poly: How are you? President Schmidt: I'm okay, yeah. So, you've spoken most recently at the Town Hall about RPI Forward as a model of financial resilience in the face of the 2039 demographic cliff. How much of this relies on expanding the student base and body versus internal cost cutting? So, what it's really about is at some level revenue diversification. So, what we're trying to do is stabilize enrollment management so we can have a predictable class coming in every year, and a lot of that is really just, strengthening our processes and practices. So, you know, we've hired a number of new people to support that, most notably Wendy Lin-Cook, who's now the [Vice Provost] of Enrollment Management. She brings a lot of experience from her time at Montclair State [University] and then also at New Jersey Institute of Technology, I believe. [She] brings a very data analytic face to things, and I think that was one of the things that we probably weren't doing enough on which is using data analysis and being able to send targeted messaging to people and then engage with them proactively. So, that's step one. The second one is increasing our capacity to talk about RPI and to tell our story. To that end, we’ve hired a new Chief Marketing Officer, the first time in the Institute’s history that we have this position filled. Dana Bodine, she comes to us having worked in a variety of industries, from The New York Times, to Time [Inc.]. to Apple and Mastercard. So, [she] brings a lot of experience there but I think it’s going to help us