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AACRAO's bi-weekly professional development e-newsletter Connect offers timely information, actionable tips, and expert guidance relevant to your career; stories about interesting colleagues doing inspiring things; and news about association services, activities and resources.

Like a virtual, on-demand AACRAO conference-between-conferences, Connect keeps professional conversations alive and helps you stay engaged with the association that advocates for and believes in your career. 

Spotlight on SEM: Chief Enrollment Officers

Aug 26, 2014

What is a CEMO, and what can you do with your career path to become one? And, in the case of smaller institutions, how can you implement cross-functional positions to maximize your SEM efforts?

Using data to understand dropping persistence rates

Aug 26, 2014

AACRAO releases executive summaries from this year's Transfer and Tech Conferences.

"Summer in the City" with the AACRAO Board

Aug 26, 2014

Update on AACRAO Board activities this summer.

Tom Green delivers keynote address at technology conference in Wales

Aug 26, 2014

Green highlighted the ways in which technology can improve the student experience.

Dr. Tom Green selected to lead AACRAO consulting

Aug 25, 2014

Ask the FERPA Professor

Aug 25, 2014

Does FERPA allow work study students to call another student to find out their intentions on registering for classes in a future semester?

Ask the FERPA Professor

Aug 12, 2014

Can an online consent form be used to defer rent payments until aid money comes in?

Taking the transfer pathway towards student success

Aug 12, 2014

Understand the political and policy debate that led to the UC's Transfer Action report and learn how the plan will be applicable to higher education institutions throughout the nation.

AACRAO International Services hosts record-breaking Summer Institute

Aug 12, 2014

Participants discussed TOEFL scores, recruitment and foreign credential assessment

The MOOC is dead! Long live open learning!

Aug 12, 2014

Anya Kamenetz on how formal education is coping through cultural transition.

Competency-based education gains traction in Washington, D.C.

Aug 11, 2014

In an effort to graduate more nontraditional students faster, the U.S. Education Department will test the idea of awarding student aid based on something other than credit hours.

SEM planning for student and institutional success

Aug 11, 2014

Cabinet-level administrators and their teams are invited to explore "Balancing Student and Institutional Success" at this year's Executive Symposium.

Meet the AACRAO Staff: Janie Barnett, Associate Executive Director

Jul 29, 2014

Group of conference attendees.

Straight from State and Regionals: Poster sessions stimulate research, energize SACRAO conference

Jul 29, 2014

SACRAO Annual Meeting abuzz with conversations about local members' research, thanks to the "poster sessions" introduced at their 2013 conference.

AACRAO presents 150% Direct Loan Webinars

Jul 29, 2014

The U.S. Education Department, in co-sponsorship with AACRAO and the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), will hold a joint webinar series on the requirements for the 150% time limit for Direct Subsidized L ...

FERPA compliance and the reverse transfer process

Jul 29, 2014

The increased visibility of reverse transfer has led to a number of questions about FERPA compliance.

Addressing the education gap for Latino men

Jul 29, 2014

A research and mentoring initiative at UT-Austin.

UK visa fraud investigations focus on international student-centered branch campuses in London

Jul 28, 2014

The fraud could be the result of organized activity related to the English testing fraud that was uncovered by the BBC.

India: University of Delhi four-year bachelor degree program appears to be scrapped after one year

Jul 28, 2014

The action was a result of pressure from political parties that had promised an end to the program as part of their platforms in recent elections.

AACRAO and the Groningen Declaration

Jul 15, 2014

AACRAO co-sponsored the third annual meeting of the Groningen Declaration Network April 7-9 on the campus of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.