ROBERT BORDEN
President of BFE Blueprint & Co-Creator of the Blueprint App
Robert Borden is the President of Blueprint and Chair of the Arts Advisory Board at Best Fit Education. He is also currently serving as the Associate Dean of Enrollment at the Tianjin Juilliard School, Juilliard’s only campus outside of NYC, in Tianjin, China. He has spent more than two decades working in college enrollment, holding the posts of Vice President of Enrollment at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Vice President of Enrollment at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and various enrollment capacities at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
Robert has effectively served to assist each of these schools in finding and enrolling talented students and attaining each institution's student enrollment goals. Now, in his work for Best Fit Education, he is able to use his years of knowledge and expertise in the area of visual and performing arts, as well as niche school enrollment, to counsel institutions on strategies to reach their enrollment goals through our Blueprint Enrollment Management Tool and our other institutional consulting services.
Robert earned his undergraduate degree in music education at DePauw University and obtained his MS Ed. in Higher Ed Administration from Miami University of Ohio.
He currently lives in Santa Clarita, CA with his wife, Louise, and his two lovable dogs, Poppy and Sage. He enjoys photography, traveling with his family, and exploring Southern California.