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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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09/04/2019
As a member of a team, you understand the value of working together and sharing ideas, thoughts, and processes to accomplish a common goal. This collaborative effort is integral to implementing SEM strategies on your campus.
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08/29/2019
It has been a busy summer for me collecting data on the career profiles of chief admission officers, freshman admission processes, transcript practices and prior learning assessment policy and practice.
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08/20/2019
"We've moved beyond the FERPA law which is 'can we' to 'should we'?"
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08/13/2019
Oftentimes, the relationship between the Registrar and Institutional Research may be nonexistent -- or possibly even adversarial. But collaboration between the two can yield amazing results, as exemplified by the experience at Wichita State University (WSU)
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08/05/2019
In the July 2019 issue of Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, we authored an article titled “Developing the Two-Way Practitioner-Researcher Loop for Enrollment Management.” In this article, we asserted that enrollment management (EM) officers should continue their efforts to use empirical research findings to guide their professional practice as it prevents EM officers from “shooting from the hip” or trial-and-error forms of professional action.
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08/02/2019
A state institution serving almost 40,000 students, Utah Valley University enrolls a significant number of new students each year. However, some of their processes were “clunky,” said Andrew Stone, Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management, and there was a clear need to improve the onboarding experience.
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07/31/2019
Bontrager and Green (2012) have delineated a structure for Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) planning that has been used successfully on hundreds of campuses. The importance of tying the SEM plan to the institutional strategic plan, building the plan’s foundation on data, focusing on the strategic rather than the shiny are all carefully explained.
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07/30/2019
In The Gazette’s article, University of Iowa VP warns of 'profound' drop-in student numbers over next decade, the University of Iowa’s Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management and AACRAO Senior Consultant, Dr. Brent Gage, discusses the long-term outlook for higher education, which predicts that there will be a large drop in high school graduates nationally by 2029.
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07/26/2019
"There are a lot of different ways to conduct UAT, probably as many ways as there are different types of institutions. The only wrong way is to not do it."
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07/26/2019
Graduates list their biggest regrets, surveying off-task technology usage in the classroom and more.
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07/26/2019
SEM Quarterly provides knowledge and insight into the ongoing evolution of Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) by bridging the gap between theory and practice.
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07/24/2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s article, ‘Better, Not Bigger’: As Private Colleges Hunger for Students, One University Slims Down focuses on private colleges and their goal to increase enrollment in a time when enrollment numbers are starting to dwindle
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07/22/2019
In November 2018 AACRAO began work on the development of a multi-pronged approach to identify and prepare a diverse group of enrollment leaders to take on leadership roles in Enrollment Management in North America and across the globe. Appropriately named, Leaders in Enrollment Advancing Diversity (LEAD)
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07/22/2019
Inside Higher Ed features an article that includes AACRAO Consultant and Vice President for Enrollment Management at Frostburg State University, Arlene Cash entitled Admissions Push: After May 1. Cash, along with Kristen Bowers, Associate Dean of Admissions at Cazenovia College,
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