Educational Administration
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Managing for Outcomes: Shifting from Process-Centric to Results-Oriented Operations ( Table of Contents and Preface )
$80 Non-Member/$60 Member; 2007; 205 pp; Item #0118
Managing for Outcomes transforms process-oriented managers into successful outcomes-oriented leaders. Author Wayne Sigler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, builds on his years of experience in higher education management to present the Outcome-Oriented Operations (Tri-O) Management System and its seven powerful components. The guide will help you create effective mission statements, choose and assess staff, write a strategic plan and calendar, monitor a budget and measure success. Aimed mainly at higher education officers, it also provides inspiring case studies from various other fields — including medicine, law enforcement, charitable work, and corporate business.
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Academic Dishonesty: Developing and Implementing Institutional Policy ( Table of Contents )
$45 nonmember/$30 member; 2007; Item #0117
Drawing heavily from current literature, case law, and a survey of fifty-two North Park University faculty members, this publication provides an overview of academic dishonesty, paying particular attention to associated legal aspects. The guide defines the types and range of academic dishonesty; examines the causes and manifestations of dishonest behavior; analyzes the legal issues affecting academic misconduct: case law, due process, the content and communication of policies, sanctions, prevention, and detection; and provides guidance for administrators and faculty for assessing and restructuring their institutional policies and procedures.
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Transfer Credit Practices of Designated Educational Institutions (TCP) 2006
$105 nonmember/$75 member; 2006; Item #3014
Transfer Credit Practices of Designated Educational Institutions (TCP) 2006 presents a voluntary exchange of information regarding practices for acceptance of transfer credit. This publication reports the transfer acceptance practices of one major institution in each state regarding credit awarded by other colleges and universities in that state. We encourage you to visit TCP Online for the most up to date credit practice information at http://tcp.aacrao.org .
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The Registrar's Guide: Evolving Best Practices in Records and Registration ( Table of Contents )
$130 nonmember / $95 member; 2006; Item #0110
The Registrar's Guide: Evolving Best Practices in Records and Registration is the first comprehensive guide to the registrar's profession to be published in 27 years. Its 35 chapters address a variety of responsibilities, ranging from registration and academic scheduling to detecting credentials fraud and implementing student information systems; preparing for commencement and preparing for accreditation; project management and "Budgeting for Registrars." Other chapters address the work of the registrar in various settings, including small colleges, community colleges, graduate schools, and law, medical and theology schools. The book also contains overviews of FERPA, the Solomon Amendment, and an Appendix of Information Sources on additional compliance matters.
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Current Trends in Grades and Grading Practices in Higher Education: Results of the 2004 AACRAO Survey
$75 nonmember/$50 member; 2005; Item 0106
AACRAO's publication Current Trends in Grades and Grading Practices in Higher Education: Results of the 2004 AACRAO Survey continues the tradition of surveying grading practices in higher education first begun in 1920. Although much has changed in the world of academia since, grades have remained a central feature. This consistent importance and interest, as well as our members' role as the guardians of academic records, has been the impetus for AACRAO's continued study of grades and grading practices in American colleges and universities. The most recent study prior to this one was conducted in 1992.
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The Work of the Registrar: A Summary of Principles and Practices in American Universities and Colleges
$50 nonmember/$35 member; 2005; Item #0105
Take a walk down Memory Lane… In 1940 when AACRAO's The Work of the Registrar was written: Yale tuition was fifty dollars per quarter; colleges had curfews for women and dress codes; the average salary was $1,299 annually; first class stamps were three cents; and colleges sent progress reports home to parents. Read about what's changed since then and what hasn't in The Work of the Registrar: A Summary of Principles and Practices in American Universities and Colleges . Written by Alma H. Preinkert, registrar at the University of Maryland from 1935 to 1954, it became an invaluable reference guide for all registrars during the 1940's. Current members of the profession should find this to be an interesting historical read. While the methods used to admit, register and maintain records have changed dramatically with computers and web based systems, the basic mission of the registrar's office has not.
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The SEM Anthology
$80 nonmembers/$60 members; 2004; Item # 9025
The SEM Anthology is a compilation of articles by more than 30 enrollment management professionals from a variety of institutions across the country. This collection, which has appeared in SEM Monthly over the past year, chronicles Strategic Enrollment Management efforts at campuses nationwide. The book illustrates the successes and challenges faced by campus officials today.
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Essentials of Enrollment Management: Cases in the Field
$80 nonmembers/$60 members; 2004; Jim Black and Associates; Item #9024
In Essentials of Enrollment Management: Cases in the Field experts in enrollment management representing all types of institutions reveal the evolution of the enrollment strategies implemented at their institutions, the results, and the lessons learned. The introductory chapter provides an overview of themes and models that are fundamental to the field of enrollment management and are featured in a single case study or represent a pattern among two or more case institutions.
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Student Marketing for Colleges and Universities
$80 nonmembers/$60 members; 2004; Richard Whiteside; Item #9023
Student Marketing for Colleges and Universities is your single authoritative source interpreting basic and advanced marketing techniques within the context of student marketing. Four sections address marketing fundamentals in the higher education setting, strategic planning, consumer behavior of the college-bound student and integrated marketing and the student marketing plan.
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The College Transfer Student in America: The Forgotten Student
$80 nonmember/$55 member; 2004; Item 9022
This guide translates research into practical advice on attracting, retaining, and guiding transfer students. Various chapters address multiple strategies for orientation and advising; curricular issues involving transfer students; how to maximize the effectiveness of articulation agreements; preparing community college students for transfer; non-traditional students as transfers; and how to develop support from alumni who started as transfer students.
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The AACRAO 2003 Academic Record and Transcript Guide
$75 nonmember/$50 member; 2003; Item #9015
This Guide is
your source for current information on a wide range of issues involving student records and transcripts. In all its chapters, the Guide focuses on the need to reconcile two competing demands: the need to provide accurate information promptly to various constituencies, and the need to safeguard privacy. The Guide emphasizes the privacy implications of the distinction between the full database and the transcript, and offers useful recommendations concerning more than forty database and transcript elements. Expanded in scope, the Guide also addresses such current issues as recording academic and disciplinary actions on transcripts; use of Social Security Numbers; name changes; transcription of nontraditional work; major features of the USA PATRIOT Act, with a list of FERPA and other resources; and the increasing impact of electronic standards for data interchange (EDI and SPEEDE).
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The AACRAO Guide to Staging a Graduation Ceremony
$70 nonmember/$50 member; S. Mark Strickland; 2001; Item 0999
Overwhelmed by the complicated process of planning a graduation ceremony? The AACRAO Guide to Staging a Graduation Ceremony provides everything you need to design your institution's ceremony from start to finish including budgetary needs, facility choice and set-up, logistical arrangements, commencement programs and photography and academic regalia, all accompanied by numerous examples and diagrams. In addition, this Guide contains comprehensive information on anticipating, preventing and responding to any potential difficulties that may arise.
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AACRAO's Professional Development Guidelines for Registrars: A Self-Audit .
$45 nonmember/$30 member; 2000; 112 pp; item #0599.
Focuses on the knowledge and skills required by registrars for this self-appraisal. Reviews the necessary functions of the registrar's office.
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Certification of Students Under Veterans' Laws: Information for Certifying Officials and Other Advisors of Veterans, Their Dependents or Survivors, and Servicepersons, Revised October 1998
$30 nonmember/$20 member; 1999; Item 0199
Discusses how to report information to the Veterans' Administration and Advice students eligible for educational assistance.
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Virtual Learning Environment: Implications for Distance Learning in the 21st Century.
$28 nonmember/$20 member; 1998; Item#3010.
Sponsored by SCT Corporation. Collection of essays exploring topics such as student services, the academic environment, technology, quality assurance, public policy and legal issues and the future of virtual learning.
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