• So you want to become a chief enrollment officer?

    12/04/2017

    As a profession, enrollment management is approximately 30-35 years old. As the domain of an enrollment manager grows in size and complexity, a new role on campus has emerged: the Chief Enrollment Management Officer (CEMO).

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  • C&U Journal: "Office of the Registrar: Mission and Vision"

    12/01/2017

    AACRAO Senior Consultant Howard Shanken​ and David Sauter, University Registrar at Miami University, have written an article in AACRAO’s November 2017 College & University Journal titled: " Office of the Registrar: Mission and Vision".

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  • November 2017 - AACRAO’S First Research Grant Award Winner

    11/30/2017

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  • National Giving Tuesday: Help AACRAO build a stronger higher ed community

    11/28/2017

    According to surveys, the top reason that AACRAO members cannot get the professional development they deserve is a lack of institutional financial support. As budgets tighten and the supply to encourage career and institutional development diminishes, AACRAO wants to step in and keep the tools for success available to all.

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  • C&U Journal: "Revolutionizing Academic Records: A Student Perspective"

    11/27/2017

    Dr. Rodney Parks, University Registrar and Assistant to the Provost, Jess Parrish, Assistant Registrar for Communications and Jack Fryer, a third year undergraduate collaborating with the Office of Registrar at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, co-authored a study in AACRAO’s November 2017 College & University Journal.

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  • The Atlantic: How Campus Racism Could Affect Black Students' College Enrollment

    11/22/2017

    In an article published in The Atlantic, titled: “How Campus Racism Could Affect Black Students' College Enrollment” AACRAO’s Associate Executive Director for Consulting and SEM, Dr. Tom Green​, is quoted warning against concluding that the declining yield rates of black students applying to UVA means they are less interested.

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  • The power of social listening

    11/20/2017

    At the 2017 SEM conference, presenter Dr. Liz Gross of the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation offered insights about how to leverage social listening for the benefit of branding, enrollment, and awareness. The session was entitled, "Beyond Likes and Shares: How Social Listening Can Impact Enrollment Management Outcomes."

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  • 8 tips for managing change

    11/17/2017

    ​At the AACRAO SEM Conference on Monday, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Vice Provost of Enrollment Management Diane Walleser, along with colleagues from the admissions, registration and financial aid departments, presented a session on “Managing the Messy Middle of Change.”

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  • SEM Conference advisers consider how to help AACRAO members meet demand for EMs

    11/13/2017

    ​At the 2017 SEM Conference in Phoenix, the SEM Conference advisory board met to discuss this year’s content and look ahead to 2018 planning. At their meeting, the group was riveted by a recently-released AACRAO study on the the career path of the Chief Enrollment Officer​. That study indicates that there will be almost 750 upcoming vacancies in the field of enrollment management.

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  • The state of college completion initiatives at U.S. community colleges

    11/10/2017

    Since President Obama introduced the 2020 goal to increase the percentage of citizens with college degrees, completion rates and how to improve them have been at the forefront of higher education institutional agendas. AACRAO researchers Wendy Kilgore, Ph.D., Director of Research at AACRAO and Jacob I. Wilson, Research Intern, set out to understand how certain completion initiatives are impacting student completion rates.

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  • Displaced Students

    11/09/2017

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  • Community college SEM roundtable pools shared wisdom

    11/06/2017

    ​At the AACRAO SEM meeting on Monday, Tara Sprehe*, of Clackamas Community College in Portland, Oregon, facilitated a discussion about the challenges and opportunities facing SEM professionals in community colleges.

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  • C&U Journal: "Dual Enrollment from two points of view: Higher Education and K-12"

    11/03/2017

    AACRAO Senior Consultant Wendy Kilgore​ and Vice President of Research at Hobsons, Ellen Wagner, have written an article in AACRAO’s September 2017 College & University Journal titled: "Dual Enrollment from two points of view: Higher Education and K-12".

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  • C&U Journal: "Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Mapping Curricula to Enhance Student Success"

    10/27/2017

    Dr. Rodney Parks, University Registrar and Assistant to the Provost, Jess Parrish, Assistant Registrar for Communications and Blake Whitesell, a former undergraduate research assistant in the Office of Registrar at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, co-authored an article in AACRAO’s September 2017 College & University Journal.

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  • October 2017 - Approximate anticipated number of CEMO positions available in the next four years

    10/26/2017

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  • Special issue of SEM Quarterly ignites conversations around SEM

    10/20/2017

    ​In preparation for its 27th Annual SEM Conference, AACRAO has released a special edition​ of Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly. Over the past five years, SEMQ has highlighted the work of enrollment management practitioners, from distinguished thought leaders, as well as young, emerging researchers in the field. This special issue includes selected articles from the past five years of the peer-reviewed journal, presenting core SEM concepts including:

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  • See How Research is Evolving SEM Practice

    10/16/2017

    AACRAO strives to facilitate the move towards more data driven decision making models by providing a venue for content experts to share their findings with the higher education community. At the 2017 Strategic Enrollment Management Conference in Phoenix, see how cutting-edge research is changing the SEM landscape.

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  • SEM Research: Make better decisions with data

    10/13/2017

    Randall Langston, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Texas Woman’s University (TWU), is a big believer in the effectiveness of well-utilized data.​ “Our success at Brockport-SUNY [Langston’s previous institution] helped us increase enrollment,” he said. “We ended up with record enrollment, a record number of first-time students, and record number of transfer students -- all achieved in an environment where students were leaving the state.”

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  • There’s still time to register for a conference workshop!

    10/09/2017

    ​Pre-Conference Workshops SEM Institute​ (Additional Fee) – Sunday, October 29 – 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Writing a SEM Plan​ (No Fee) – Sunday, October 29 – 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Afternoon Half-Day Workshops​ (Additional Fee) – Sunday, October 29 – 2:00 – 4:45 p.m.

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  • Growing your international enrollment--panacea or pitfall?

    10/06/2017

    The pressure to find new students keeps ratcheting up and our enrollment marketing strategies have been evolving quickly to keep pace. With demographic shifts, declines in domestic high school graduation rates, budgetary pressures, and—more positively—the growing importance of internationalization to prepare our students for careers in the global economy it is not surprising that international enrollment on almost every college and university campus in the United States and Canada has been rising (in many cases quite dramatically) over the past decade.

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