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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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Addressing corruption in higher education

Aug 23, 2016

Expert group publishes "wake-up call" Advisory Statement.

Ask the FERPA Professor

Aug 23, 2016

A question about financial aid forms and FERPA

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7 considerations for building a SEM analytics reporting porfolio

Aug 23, 2016

Develop a SEM-focused analytics model.

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In remembrance of Frederick E. Lockyear

Aug 22, 2016

A world traveler and leader in international admissions research, Fred authored the AACRAO World Education Series volume on Iran in 1976.

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A digital world for all: Making skills mobile

Aug 9, 2016

AACRAO representatives attended the 5th annual Groningen Declaration Network meeting in South Africa.

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The 'gamification' of education

Aug 9, 2016

LaGuardia Community College's digital badging project helps keep students committed to college.

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SPEEDE Committee update: April-June 2016

Aug 9, 2016

Quarterly Executive Summary of the Standardization of Postsecondary Education Electronic Data Exchange Committee.

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SEM is a team sport

Aug 9, 2016

How to get people on campus (faculty, in particular) to buy into SEM on campus.

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Ask the FERPA Professor

Aug 9, 2016

How liable is a school for lost education records?

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AACRAO call for Public Policy Advisory Group members

Aug 9, 2016

We look forward to forming a dynamic, engaged group that will help the association respond to emerging legislation and regulation and keep the membership informed. Applications are being accepted through September 15, 2016.

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AACRAO Board holds strategic planning meeting

Jul 27, 2016

In late June, the AACRAO Board met in Denver to examine over a year's worth of data and ideas surrounding various meetings, resources, service lines, and professional competencies.

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The art of the IPEDS comparison group

Jul 26, 2016

Two strategies for developing groups to meet your data needs.

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AACRAO's Transfer focus for the next year

Jul 26, 2016

This year, AACRAO will be focusing on two major initiatives relating to transfer - updating the Joint Statement on the Transfer and Award of Credit and the design of a Transfer Student Bill of Rights.

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Ask the FERPA Professor

Jul 26, 2016

What if a records subpoena doesn't give the student enough time to respond?

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Study abroad professionals come together at targeted workshop

Jul 26, 2016

6 best practices for record review.

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The Community Face of SEM: Building relationships for the student journey

Jul 26, 2016

Seeing SEM as data-driven may have put too much emphasis on the collective student rather than the individual student.

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One community college's exemplary co-curricular transcript

Jul 26, 2016

A strategy to increase engagement and participation beyond the classroom at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Reverse transfer from the two-year college perspective

Jul 26, 2016

Lone Star College explores best practices for reverse transfer students.

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One institution's stellar comprehensive student record

Jul 18, 2016

The tools, infrastructure, training, funding, and steps necessary to implement a holistic learning document.

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In light of North Carolina law, AACRAO moves Tech/Transfer 2017 to New Orleans

Jul 12, 2016

A message from AACRAO Executive Director Michael Reilly and the AACRAO Board of Directors