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Retired and Former AACRAO Members

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With AACRAO membership you'll be connected to more than 11,000 members from institutions around the world. Facilitate your professional development by attending discounted meetings, gaining complimentary subscriptions to our College & University journal and more.

Why should you join? Development never ends, retired or not. Keep current on trends in the field by collaborating with our members and lending your voice to discussions about practices in the field. 

Annual Membership Price: $151

Requirements: YOU BE A RETIRED MEMBER OR A MEMBER WHO LOST EMPLOYMENT AND IS NO LONGER ELIGIBLE FOR INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP.  

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Keep up to date on skills areas like technical knowledge and professional development and contributions to the field. We have the tools for you.

Online Learning

From free webinars to self-paced on-demand learning, AACRAO's online learning covers a variety of subjects—technology, strategic enrollment management, admissions, FERPA, transfer, credential evaluation, and international education—and allow you to engage with the presenters and instructors.

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Maybe you want to reenter the workforce or change the trajectory of your career--AACRAO's Career Navigator is a wealth of job postings and resources for you. 

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AACRAO's professional journals College & University and SEM Quarterly are always accepting articles and have a wide circulation base.

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Leverage the expertise of our over 11,000 members and contribute to one of the premier sources of practice related research within the global higher education community. 

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Do work you're passionate about, with support and mentoring from fellow members. From Caucuses to specialized topics, it's all one community. 


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AACRAO's bi-weekly professional development e-newsletter

Work smarter, not harder

Dec 1, 2020, 10:40 AM
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Strategic planning is a major theme at AACRAO. We advocate for institutional strategic planning, we offer classes and training in it, and we focus an entire conference around it. 

But what about strategic doing?

On an individual level, strategic doing is about being more deliberate with your time, improving your personal productivity and efficiency in order to make the most of your work time — which will help you be able to truly enjoy your leisure time. 

With so many members working from home, strategic time management may be the single most important skill any of us can hone right now. And in a recent episode of the AACRAO podcast For the Record, host Doug McKenna spoke with Heather Abbott, Deputy Registrar, Yale Law School, about her personal research into strategies for improving time management at work. 

“There isn’t only one way to work efficiently and productively,” McKenna said. “Each of us operates within a different work environment or culture, and each of us responds to different approaches differently.” 

McKenna recommends experimenting to find what works best for you, and letting go of productivity methods that aren’t working for you. 

In the episode, McKenna and Abbott talk tried-and-true strategies and technology tools, including:

Productivity:

Getting Things Done (via Toodledo)

Eisenhower Matrix (via Todoist)

Designing Your Life

Laura Vanderkam Before Breakfast podcast

Tools for Focusing:

Pomodoro method (via LifeHacker)

Strict Workflow

Forest 

Building Habits:

Habitica

The Power of Habit

The Checklist Manifesto

Procrastination:

Swallow the frog

The Now Habit

Using Technology Thoughtfully:

Hurry Slowly podcast

Infomagical

Privacy Paradox

Honorable mentions:

Evernote

Asana

Trello

Confluence

Todoist

Workflowy

Remember the Milk

Meanwhile episode on A people (give you energy) and B people (drain your energy)

AirTable

The Sunday Meeting  and Zero Inbox via Kerry Ann Rockquemore

After action reviews via Mindtools  or Toggl 

 

Listen to their full conversation here. 

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  • Professional Well-Being
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  • for the record
  • podcast
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