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03/23/2020
In this article, which appears in Volume 7 No. 4 of AACRAO’s SEMQ journal, AACRAO’s Director of Research and consultant Wendy Kilgore, Ph.D., and co-author Gary Orosy, an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Southern Methodist University, explore the ways in which higher education institutions can better attract the students they seek. The authors identify the practices that lead to the highest rates of enrolled students. Universities that utilized a brand-management practice, such establishing a “brand” and being active on social media, are ultimately the most successful, Kilgore found. Click here to explore the entirety of their research.
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03/20/2020
"We may never see a return to normalcy in higher education and it remains to be seen whether that will be the positive change many of us have hoped for and hoped to achieve."
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03/19/2020
Mike Reilly discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on AACRAO and our members.
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03/03/2020
In SEMQ's Issue 3 from fall 2019, in the article "Starting a New Job in SEM: How to Be Wildly Successful," AACRAO Senior Consultant Dr. Alicia Moore explores the many ways you can start yourself off on the right foot at your new job in Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM).
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03/03/2020
In this article, Louise Lonabocker, former president of AACRAO, interviews AACRAO Senior Consultant Brad Myers on his lifelong dedication registrar services.
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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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