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AACRAO's biweekly 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. 

The next step: Helping veterans succeed

Jul 2, 2014

The success of veterans relies largely on the efficiency and effectiveness of student services.

Technology and Transfer Conference Spotlight: Student system software; Writing across the curriculum; and UNCW's Teal Track Program

Jul 1, 2014

Nontraditional students: 2 tools to help them succeed

Jul 1, 2014

Implement assessment-based learning from the registrar's office.

Brazil: Plagiarism common; little awareness of academic integrity

Jul 1, 2014

While the world focuses on issues of "fair play" in the World Cup in Brazil, a report reveals that plagiarism is common in Brazilian higher education.

Process of higher education "harmonization" beginning in southeast Asia

Jul 1, 2014

AACRAO White Paper: Prepare your student information systems for the revised SAT

Jul 1, 2014

Institutions should start planning now for the new file report format coming next year.

Meet the AACRAO Staff: Corinne MacIntire, Associate Director of Membership and Awards

Jul 1, 2014

Corinne started answering phones at AACRAO when she was in high school.

The consequences of credit lost

Jul 1, 2014

Study explores why some transfer students don't complete 4-year degrees

"Is college worth it?": A data-based look at the value of college

Jun 18, 2014

Time to put the question to rest.

Strengthen Strategic Enrollment Management leadership skills

Jun 17, 2014

Executive-level enrollment managers must understand institutional organizational structure and how to manage resources.

Technology and Transfer Spotlight: Technology solutions, transfer interventions, and the sustainability of MOOCs

Jun 17, 2014

AACRAO introduces the "60 Second Survey"

Jun 17, 2014

Watch your inbox: Starting this month, AACRAO will introduce a new way to capture snapshots of institutional practices and/or policy.

Student persistence and campus-based financial aid: How they intersect

Jun 3, 2014

Two of the most pressing institutional policy issues'student persistence and campus-based financial aid'intersect in the office of the enrollment manager.

AACRAO calendar contest winners announced

Jun 3, 2014

Members will receive this gorgeous calendar in June.

AACRAO talks with Department of Education

Jun 3, 2014

The Director of Federal Student Aid Policy for the Department of Education (DOE) recently reached out to AACRAO and NASFAA to discuss the financial aid and enrollment regulatory changes that go into effect July 1st.

Technology and Transfer Conference Spotlight: Transfer marketing, transfer student success and data-based strategic planning

Jun 3, 2014

The AACRAO Vanderbilt Institute empowers student success

Jun 2, 2014

AACRAO is pleased to announce that Donald Hossler, Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research & Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, will be presenting at the Institute for Senior Pr ...

AACRAO teams with K-12 assessment consortia to help colleges use new readiness results

Jun 2, 2014

This guidance offers a list of potential options for delivering the results from these assessments to higher education institutions.

Credit hours, credentials and competencies

Jun 2, 2014

For a variety of reasons many professionals are questioning whether credit hours and grades in courses are a good representation of a student's academic history and accomplishments.

Former Secretary of State Albright and NPR's Scott Simon to speak at AACRAO Annual Meeting

Jun 2, 2014

Save the dates: April 12-15, 2015, at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD.