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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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AACRAO forms Student Identity Work Group

Dec 13, 2016

The Work Group will develop guidance on appropriate methods of collecting, recording, and reporting of name and gender identity in student record systems.

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Comprehensive Student Records Project participants convene in Indianapolis

Dec 13, 2016

Even with twelve unique projects, some central themes emerged.

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Helping displaced students succeed

Dec 13, 2016

Violence, natural disasters, financial issues and other trauma can force students to transfer. Administrators' awareness of their needs can help them complete.

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2017 Leadership Meeting wraps up in DC

Dec 13, 2016

Nearly one-hundred state and regional AACRAO officers from around the country joined AACRAO's PAC and the AACRAO Board to discuss organizational planning, professional development, current AACRAO initiatives and more.

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4 technologies your CIO should embrace to assist student support professionals

Dec 13, 2016

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AACRAO staff holiday drive helps homeless in DC

Dec 13, 2016

The donations will help with clothing and other needs for some of the nearly one in five DC residents who lives in poverty.

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Ask the FERPA Professor

Dec 13, 2016

Can students view parents' financial information?

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Field Notes: Higher Education Economics: A Source of Conflict

Dec 13, 2016

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Key questions when evaluating foreign credentials

Nov 29, 2016

And upcoming foreign credential evaluation training opportunities.

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Garrison Keillor and Danny Glover to talk education at the 2017 AACRAO Annual Meeting

Nov 29, 2016

Registration is open and professional opportunities abound in Minneapolis, April 2-5, 2017.

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Take the EDGE off of evaluating foreign credentials

Nov 29, 2016

The go-to resource for evaluating unfamiliar foreign credentials and hands-on learning opportunities at the Institutes for International Transfer Credit.

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What it means to be an "Engaged Scholar in Critical Thinking"

Nov 29, 2016

A pilot student record badge that certifies critical thinking in a community context.

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Diversity and inclusion and the new administration

Nov 29, 2016

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Keep transfer students at the forefront of effective SEM planning

Nov 29, 2016

If an institution truly wishes to excel in being strategic and intentional about its enrollment and student support practices, then it must consider how transfer students are recruited and retained, with the ultimate goal of ensuring their ...

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Ask the FERPA Professor

Nov 29, 2016

When Does an Applicant Become a Student?

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SmartScript: A model competency-based transcript

Nov 23, 2016

UW-Extension and UW Colleges develop comprehensive transcript pilot for CBE degree programs.

Indiana ACRAO 2016 Conference focuses on "The Art of Collaboration"

Nov 15, 2016

Tips for pre-registering students, working with faculty, and utilizing technology and big data.

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Tips for student success and retention

Nov 15, 2016

William Serrata and Christine Kerlin share ideas that have worked on campuses.

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The 'Four Ps' for framing a retention strategy

Nov 15, 2016

David Kalsbeek and Jay Goff share research-based strategies for improving student persistence and completion rates.

Indiana University's collaborative effort to pre-register new and transfer students

Nov 15, 2016

A pilot project to