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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. 

Ask the FERPA Professor

Feb 26, 2018

Sharing information with recruiting partners

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Invitation to submit a poster presentation

Feb 13, 2018

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Participate in the 2018 Open Doors Surveys

Feb 13, 2018

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Field Notes: It takes a village: Retention, persistence, and all those early alerts

Feb 13, 2018

Strategy before software.

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Call for volunteers: AACRAO Workgroups

Feb 13, 2018

Learn more about the Admissions Career Path, State & REgionals, and Student Success workgroups

Ask the FERPA Professor

Feb 12, 2018

Can schools disclose student athletes' GPAs to the press?

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Admissions: Stop reinventing the orientation and recruitment wheel

Feb 12, 2018

How one community college streamlined and unified their recruitment funnel and orientation process.

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Focusing on completion at community colleges

Feb 12, 2018

Hitting the mark under a performance-based funding model.

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AACRAO to join the University Alliance for Refugee and at Risk Migrants

Feb 12, 2018

Extending our work with displaced and vulnerable students.

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AACRAO Caucuses bring members together around common issues

Feb 12, 2018

The Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, Latino/a, LGBT and Native American Caucuses have a major role to play in promoting inclusivity in higher education professions.

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Coded language creates barriers to graduate school diversity

Feb 12, 2018

How faculty concerns about "quality" reinforce inequality and racism, and other myths about diversity recruiting.

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SEM professionals: Two calls for volunteers

Feb 8, 2018

Seeking AACRAO SEM-EP evaluators and information about graduate SEM courses on your campuses

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What is the student's role in the transfer process?

Jan 31, 2018

How to work with students to assume responsibility.

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How to build your creative confidence and promote diversity

Jan 30, 2018

Kevin Carroll, best-selling author and self-styled "provocateur of play," talks to AACRAO about using imagination to instigate social change.

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Are you ready for the cloud? 3 questions to consider

Jan 30, 2018

One university shares its cloud migration story.

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Is it armageddon?

Jan 30, 2018

How major technological and social shifts are fundamentally changing the registrar profession.

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AACRAO office gearing up for summer move

Jan 30, 2018

The architectural design drawings have been completed and the search for a contractor has begun.

Ask the FERPA Professor

Jan 29, 2018

Are a counselor's records "treatment records" if they have Title IX privilege?

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Influencing policy making

Jan 29, 2018

How registrars can advocate for equitable policy for all students.

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The cost of not complying with GDPR

Jan 16, 2018

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?" (John Wooden)