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With AACRAO membership you'll be connected to more than 11,000 members from institutions around the world. Facilitate your professional development by attending discounted meetings, gaining complimentary subscriptions to our College & University journal and more.

Why should you join? From professional development opportunities to forging connections that will help you in setting down career stones, there's more than one reason. 

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Annual Membership Price: Starting at $302

Requirements: YOU MUST BE AT A POSTSECONDARY DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTION OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES RECOGNIZED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OR APPROPRIATE MINISTRY IN YOUR COUNTRY AND AUTHORIZED TO GRANT DEGREES.

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When education standards change, new credentials are awarded, or foreign education systems are reorganized, AACRAO EDGE utilizes the expertise of the International Education Standards Council (IESC) to review and update our database.

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Work on your skills like diversity and inclusion, interpretation and application of institutional and external data, and leadership. We have the tools for you.

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From free webinars to self-paced on-demand learning, AACRAO's online learning covers a variety of subjects—technology, strategic enrollment management, admissions, FERPA, transfer, credential evaluation, and international education—and allow you to engage with the presenters and instructors.

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AACRAO's professional journals College & University and SEM Quarterly are always accepting articles and have a wide circulation base.

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Leverage the expertise of our over 11,000 members and contribute to one of the premier sources of practice related research within the global higher education community. 

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Do work you're passionate about, with support and mentoring from fellow members. From Caucuses to specialized topics, it's all one community, no matter where in the world your institution is located. 


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Meet Winter Institute Faculty Robert Watkins

Nov 27, 2018, 11:17 AM
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Robert Watkins, Assistant Director, Foreign Credentials, at University of Texas at Austin began his career in the admissions office at UT in 1977 and moved into international admissions in 1983 -- and he's a founder of AACRAO's Winter Institute for International Credit. But even so, he doesn’t know all of the answers to international credential evaluation questions.

“You think you know everything when you’ve done it for 41 years,” Watkins laughed. “One of the reasons it’s so much fun to do this [Winter Institute faculty] is inevitably a participant raises a question or a situation that you’re not familiar with. And someone with fresh eyes brings a new perspective to the pat answer you gave earlier in the day.

Winter Institute encourages participants to bring their real-world experiences to share and learn. The collaboration that happens in the workshop adds significant depth of understanding and nuance to supplement traditional resources like books, professional networks and experience, and AACRAO EDGE.

“Another reason it’s so fun is that I get to see the bright new faces in the field,” Watkins added. “My generation that has been doing this forever is aging and beginning to retire. My mentors have all retired and are no longer active in the field, so it’s a concern who will replace us. It’s exciting to see the up and coming professionals during the institutes and find out about them."

In addition, Institute participants are those who recruit heavily in the field, and usually bring a wealth of on-the-ground stories to share -- which cannot be conveyed with the same richness in a paper on your desk.

"That was the value of being in Cuba,” Watkins said. “And traveling to the Canada and Philippines on AACRAO projects. Folks come back from recruiting experience and can share what’s really happening. That first-hand knowledge is valuable both to the Institute faculty -- we can add to our curriculum if necessary -- and it’s also beneficial to other participants.”

When he’s not overseeing foreign crednential evaluations, Watkins might be found singing with his local choirs.

“My wife and I sing in our church choir and also now in the community chorus,” Watkins said. “I’m one of the few, the proud -- the tenors.”

Singing classic pieces, such as Brahms’ A German Requiem, satisfies the inner History major in Watkins. As does his avid reading habit.

“I mostly studied European political and diplomatic history in undergrad,” Watkins said. “Only in grad school did I discover that American history can be fun.”

His recent reads include Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin and he “usually has a fiction book going, too,” -- something in the realm of espionage, political thrillers, or -- of course -- international history.




Winter Institute
Feb. 4-7, 2019
Arlington, VA
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  • Credential Evaluation
  • International
  • International Admissions
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