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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. 

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AACRAO attends UNESCO meeting in Paris

Jan 7, 2019

The goal of the global convention is to facilitate inter-regional mobility, build and reinforce the regional conventions, and serve higher education into the future.

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Field Notes: Satisfaction versus stagnation: Professional advancement in small institutions

Jan 7, 2019

Four strategies for growth when opportunities seem limited.

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AACRAO invited to join Data Privacy and Protection Task Force

Jan 7, 2019

The task force ​spans will serve as an information clearinghouse for the education community, focused on technical implementation of rules and regulations such as GDPR.

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AACRAO's journals seek authors

Jan 7, 2019

AACRAO’s College & University and SEM Quarterly Journals are seeking manuscript submissions for 2019.

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AACRAO to present at EdUSA seminar on recruiting and hosting international students

Jan 7, 2019

Event held at UW-Madison and free to all accredited institutions in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota.

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Just do it: 3 reasons to present at conferences

Jan 7, 2019

You don’t have to be an extrovert (hot tip within), and you don’t have to have all the answers.

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From cotton picking to college professor

Jan 7, 2019

One black woman’s story of courageous leadership in the academy.

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3-Minute Mentor: How to handle egos and set long-term goals

Jan 7, 2019

Luisa Havens Gerardo shares tips picked up along her higher education journey.

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Become the 100th applicant!

Dec 11, 2018

AACRAO's Strategic Enrollment Management Endorsement Program (SEM-EP) will soon receive its 100th application. It could be you!

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9 career podcasts you didn't know you needed

Dec 10, 2018

Admit It: Ep 1 explores higher ed as a partisan issue, test optional, enrollment goal struggles, and the admissions director survey. PLUS: 8 other podcasts to boost your career.

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Field Notes: Balancing your career when caring for a loved one

Dec 10, 2018

One higher ed professional offers realistic, hard-won wisdom about working through crisis.

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Aleks Morawski joins AACRAO Winter Institute team

Dec 10, 2018

Understanding foreign credentials is an imperative of fairness and student success.

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Reflections on SEM: 3 catalysts for change

Dec 10, 2018

AACRAO President (and first-time SEM Conference attendee) Tina Falkner shares her takeaways.

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Reverse engineer Strategic Enrollment Management for GREAT outcomes

Dec 10, 2018

Start with the end in mind.

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AACRAO expands relationship with NAIA

Dec 10, 2018

Training, webinars, and publications spring from the organizations’ knowledge sharing.

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Staff development: Practicing what we teach

Dec 10, 2018

Connect professional development with academic programs and processes.

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By the book, by the culture, or by strategic goals?

Dec 10, 2018

What SEM style is right for your organization?

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Meet Winter Institute Faculty Robert Watkins

Nov 27, 2018

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Admitting Vulnerable Student Populations to U.S. Campuses

Nov 27, 2018

AACRAO – IIE PEER best practices workshop helps U.S. institutions have the tools put in place now in order to support the next population of vulnerable students.

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The demand is high. The picture is big. The goal is meaningful.

Nov 27, 2018