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02/28/2020
Needs insecurity is particularly prevalent among students from marginalized groups.
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02/27/2020
"On a day to day basis I may not see how dependent I am on the Registrar to do my job...almost every emergency impacts the registrar in some capacity."
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02/21/2020
Black Caucus chair Kristy Goodwin reflects on a fruitful discussion about purpose.
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02/20/2020
Mike Reilly discusses the agency's decision to no longer recognize the distinction between regional and national accreditation.
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02/17/2020
"How does the registrar's office, specifically, engage in this work? What does that look like from a registrar perspective?"
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01/31/2020
Talk up your research, and don't feel ashamed about it.
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01/15/2020
Have a high profile...."Go to faculty senate meetings. Be seen at faculty senate meetings."
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12/20/2019
In a changing job landscape, many young adults and teens are choosing between careers and college.
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12/11/2019
Numerous practitioners and researchers have dedicated time to key concepts supporting successful retention strategies. Certainly Vincent Tinto’s early work on the theory on student departure and Alexander Astin’s (1986) focus on how to best integrate a student within the institution grounds much of this work.
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12/03/2019
"It's always fun to reach out for something shiny and new but it so satisfying to take something like a website that's frequently overlooked and...transform it into a more effective tool for service delivery."
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11/26/2019
No matter how much social media the new generation uses, they still rely on computers and emails for educational matters.
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10/29/2019
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10/25/2019
College friendships--sometimes they can be responsible for changing your worldview.
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10/17/2019
Mike Reilly discusses the College Affordability Act.
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09/30/2019
Dr. Rodney Parks, University Registrar and Assistant to the Provost, Alexander Taylor, Assistant Registrar for Communications, and Hannah Schulz, a third-year student at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, co-authored an article in AACRAO’s summer 2019 College & University Journal.
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09/25/2019
Text message-based behavioral nudging is shown to have positive effects on student persistence.
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09/25/2019
The Operation Varsity Blues criminal conspiracy, as nicknamed by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), has overwhelmed higher education admissions offices for the past seven months since it broke in March of 2019. This scandal has been frustrating for the admissions offices because even though the transgressions were not perpetrated by their offices or staff, it has been labeled an admissions scandal.
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09/16/2019
Most of the American and Canadian higher education infrastructure is based upon the completion of discrete courses in pursuit of an overall credential (certificate or degree). Curriculum is divided into courses, each carrying specific credits, and courses can be combined into any number of possible credentials.
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09/11/2019
Over the last three years, AACRAO Research has published updated career profiles of three of the most common professions of our members -- Registrars (2018), Chief Enrollment Management Officers (CEMO) (2017), and Chief Admissions Officers (CAO) (2019).
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09/04/2019
Robust transfer articulation tables save academic advisors and registrar staff an immense amount of time annually. Consider how often we are asked annually how credit will transfer to our institutions. As stackable credentials become mainstream, institutions will begin looking for ways to recruit students with non-traditional education and award academic credit in the hopes the student will matriculate and complete a degree.
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