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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. 

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4 principles that make text campaigns successful

Mar 7, 2017

Executive summary from AACRAO SEM 2016 shares key insights from behavioral science, analytics, market-centered SEM and other hot topics.

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Engage: Your go-to source for all things #AACRAO17

Mar 7, 2017

The Engage mobile app offers the meeting program, a newsy activity feed, AND a platform for organizing informal discussions on hot topics.

Ask the FERPA Professor

Mar 6, 2017

How a teacher can leave tests in a hallway to be picked up.

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New SEM-EP Assistant Director will help learners embrace professional changes

Feb 21, 2017

Reader, runner, and SEM expert Kimberley Buster-Williams is ready to bring AACRAO's members to the next level of SEM.

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Meet AACRAO Board Member Tammy Aagard

Feb 21, 2017

What the Grinch, the Rose Bowl, and a turtle on a fence post have to do with serving on the AACRAO Board.

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Do transcript denials trigger bill payment?

Feb 21, 2017

EAB's Enrollment Management Forum, in partnership with The New School, is studying the effects of transcript request denials on students and their degree aspirations.

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Open Doors survey deadlines approaching

Feb 21, 2017

Respond before March deadlines to IIE's surveys on international students in the U.S., intensive English programs, and U.S. students studying abroad.

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Mining cocurricular data to improve retention

Feb 21, 2017

Experiential learning helps students succeed, but how? And how much is too much?

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Application of workforce development practices to transfer student recruitment

Feb 21, 2017

What is next for Admissions - Transfer Student Services?

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How one university is utilizing AACRAO's Professional Competencies and Proficiencies

Feb 21, 2017

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70th SACRAO Conference wraps up in St. Pete Beach, FL

Feb 21, 2017

Conference attendees were treated to a party on the beach with a live band, bonfires, and southern hospitality.

Ask the FERPA Professor

Feb 20, 2017

Group of international educators traveled 56% of the world

Feb 20, 2017

Shortly after Thanksgiving 2016, a group of 14 educators met in Freiburg, Germany for a week-long international experience that was described by those on the trip as an "experience of a lifetime."

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Gauging your SEM readiness

Feb 7, 2017

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Meet AACRAO Board Member Tiffany Robinson

Feb 7, 2017

The Registrar at Western Kentucky University was elected in November 2016.

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Beyond generalized FERPA training

Feb 7, 2017

6 areas where FERPA applies

Use the AACRAO Competencies to set professional development New Year's Resolutions

Feb 7, 2017

10 tips for assessing and building your and your staff's professional competencies in 2017.

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AACRAO welcomes William Gil as the Director of Government Relations

Feb 7, 2017

AACRAO's seat at the table with the presidential administration and Congress.

Ask the FERPA Professor

Feb 6, 2017

What if a professor uses a non-university email account?

Ten ways to use AACRAO competencies with your 2017 New Year's Resolution: Part two

Feb 6, 2017

Detailed strategies for making 2017 the year of professional development.