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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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Business process improvement: An enrollment management tool

Jun 18, 2018

3 steps to improving operational efficiency

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AACRAO meets with European education ministries

Jun 18, 2018

AACRAO and IIE served as the U.S. delegation at the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) Ministerial Conference in Paris.

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AACRAO Leadership returns to Capitol Hill

Jun 18, 2018

With Senators and Representatives, AACRAO will discuss HEA Reauthorization, FERPA, the Reverse Transfer Efficiency Act, and the PROSPER Act.

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Build your transfer tool kit @ Tech and Transfer

Jun 18, 2018

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Is global education in crisis?

Jun 5, 2018

How institutions can grapple with uncertainty and promise in the global higher education environment.

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Does your communication strategy support enrollment conversion?

Jun 4, 2018

Tips from an expert, and an invitation to AACRAO’s regional traveling admissions leadership workshop in Massachusetts.

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Ask the FERPA Professor

Jun 4, 2018

Are you required to process a disclosure request, even if its misleading?

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The intersection between learning and technology

Jun 4, 2018

AACRAO and EDUCAUSE partner to catalyze student access and success.

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You don’t have to understand blockchain to get it

Jun 4, 2018

The technology is the easy part.

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Field Notes: The five words that can transform your commitment to inclusion

Jun 4, 2018

Diversity is not the same as inclusivity.

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Policies that may halt enrollment decline at liberal arts colleges

Jun 4, 2018

Effective strategies vary depending on school type, according to a recent article in C&U.

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AACRAO's SEM journal redesign: Greater impact, easier citation

Jun 4, 2018

The latest issue of SEM Quarterly addresses women in SEM leadership, how campus environments impact college choice and persistence, and more.

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AACRAO and AICE attend the Bilateral Seminar on The Transatlantic Friendship and Mobility Initiative

May 22, 2018

A report on the bilateral seminar held May 14-15, 2018, at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.

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Leadership meeting revisited

May 21, 2018

For the past several months, AACRAO's Board of Directors has been actively reviewing and revising AACRAO's annual Leadership Meeting, changing the timing as well as the format and focus.

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Building an international student pipeline

May 21, 2018

Reach students in their element through strategic recruitment partnerships.

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Field Notes: Clues to assessment: Solving the crime of just a check box activity

May 21, 2018

Program and service assessment is part of our world. Here are 11 ways to do it better.

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A GDPR lesson from Y2K, with duck sauce

May 21, 2018

Instead of a threat, it's an opportunity.

Unknown Portrait of An AACRAO Professional

Wang Chao joins AACRAO International as Summer Institute faculty member

May 21, 2018

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The rapidly changing nature of community college

May 21, 2018

Moving from smorgasboard to success.

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AACRAO prepares for move to new office in Washington, DC

May 21, 2018

Local D.C.-area school repurposes donated equipment from Dupont office.