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AACRAO's bi-weekly professional development e-newsletter Connect offers timely information, actionable tips, and expert guidance relevant to your career; stories about interesting colleagues doing inspiring things; and news about association services, activities and resources.

Like a virtual, on-demand AACRAO conference-between-conferences, Connect keeps professional conversations alive and helps you stay engaged with the association that advocates for and believes in your career. 

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​​​​​​​​​​​​ACE launches national task force to improve transfer credit practices

Feb 10, 2020

AACRAO is supporting the work of the Task Force

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Seeking Evaluators for AACRAO SEM-EP

Feb 10, 2020

Applications due by February 28.

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AACRAO debuts enhanced credential evaluation database

Feb 10, 2020

Exciting new features will soon be unveiled in AACRAO EDGE, the Electronic Database for Global Education.

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A SEM project management tool

Feb 10, 2020

How to manage the intricate, codependent, and time-sensitive processes that accompany any SEM plan.

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IIE launches Emergency Student Fund effort to support students affected by crises

Feb 10, 2020

Completed nominations must be received by February 19, 2020.

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Field Notes: Admissions, do you have an operational communications strategy?

Feb 10, 2020

Why & how to build communications for the application and pre-enrollment process.

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Removing barriers to completion for online students

Jan 27, 2020

Proven strategies include enrolling two years out and tracking academic success.

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Be the change: You don't have to be a VP

Jan 27, 2020

How Registrar & Admissions at ISU teamed up to advocate for inclusive policy changes.

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AACRAO Journals: Scholarship for our professions

Jan 27, 2020

Learn more about the content—and how you can contribute. Both C&U and SEMQ welcome member submissions.

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AACRAO SEM Endorsement program enrolls first scholarship recipient

Jan 27, 2020

Congratulations to Keir McIsaac, Int’l Student Recruitment Officer at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Field Notes: Deconstructing ageism in the workplace

Jan 27, 2020

All generations have gifts and blind spots.

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A credentialing infrastructure for the 21st Century

Jan 26, 2020

A new report on policy needs and important initiatives underway.

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Redefining service values in the registrar’s office

Jan 22, 2020

How one office un-siloed themselves and improved internal and external relationships.

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Scholarship opportunities abroad: Pakistan

Jan 14, 2020

A resource for international enrollment management.

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Revised standards released for Registrar Services

Jan 14, 2020

This 2019 revision of the Registrar Services standards is the the first in over a decade.

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5 practical & potent professional resolutions

Jan 13, 2020

Start today and make 2020 the year for career transformation.

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Registration open: Groningen Declaration Network Annual Meeting

Jan 13, 2020

The meeting in Delhi will bring together higher education professionals and other stakeholders dedicated to the global mobility of learners.

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Field Notes: When "do more with less" becomes too much to ask

Jan 12, 2020

Personal and professional wellbeing in the age of enrollment decline.

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Take the next step in your career: Present a session

Jan 12, 2020

Developing an idea for a proposal can have many positive outcomes for your career.

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AACRAO Board of Directors appoints first External Director

Jan 12, 2020

The AACRAO Board of Directors has appointed Rob Shomaker, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CUPA-HR.