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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. 

10 questions to ask to improve retention

Mar 27, 2018

Tracking engagement, support and academic progress.

Do you have what it takes to lead through conflict?

Mar 27, 2018

Dos & don'ts of handling office disagreements.

A big-picture look at India's educational system

Mar 27, 2018

Primary-source documents are useful, even if they aren't official.

Beginning a strategic planning project

Mar 27, 2018

How to get your team on board.

Dysfunction of "Office Space": Staff Appreciation 101

Mar 27, 2018

Creative strategies to recognize and appreciate staff members and reduce burnout and turnover.

The tech tools of student service

Mar 27, 2018

How the newest technology tools in student services are helping to reduce barriers to academic success, create service efficiencies, and increase overall student satisfaction.

Using data analytics to track non-traditional students

Mar 27, 2018

Identifying at-risk students in online courses.

How high school grade inflation affects admissions and recruitment

Mar 27, 2018

Accurately assessing academic preparedness.

Meet four first-time Annual Meeting attendees

Mar 22, 2018

AACRAO proudly supports these Conner Scholarship recipients in their quests for professional development.

Group of students with their chaperone at an unknown monument.

In Cuba, education is a right for all

Mar 13, 2018

AACRAO research returns to the field as 12 delegates travel to Havana.

The phrase "time for change" written in the sand as waves threaten to wash it away.

Field Notes: Starting points: A multifaceted approach to becoming a trans-inclusive campus

Mar 13, 2018

It's time to change. Start small, do your research, and reach out.

Silhouettes cast on a brick wall with a fence in the foreground walk in a straight line as though in a chained together.

AACRAO convenes global organizations in support of displaced and vulnerable students

Mar 13, 2018

Serving the world's most vulnerable students.

Solid blue background with the letters "GDPR" in the center and various icons such as a key, alarm clock, lock, etc positioned below the letters.

Comparing FERPA & GDPR

Mar 13, 2018

Is FERPA compliance sufficient for complying with GDPR?

Female with an expression of annoyance walks along a wall while wearing a hiking backpack.

Education, interrupted

Mar 13, 2018

What is higher education's role in the lives of refugees, Dreamers, and other students in crisis?

Ask the FERPA Professor

Mar 12, 2018

A question about institutional police department's law enforcement records involving students.

People smiling and conversing freely in what appears to be an open event space.

5 ways to create a positive, productive work climate

Mar 12, 2018

Build a loyal, satisfied, and engaged staff.

Four people in a line smiling at the camera while holding books and binders in a library.

Swirlers, dualists, reversers and traditionals

Mar 12, 2018

No single lens addresses the needs of all transfer student populations.

Political cartoon showing figures sitting around a table with downward trending graphs behind them and the following phrase underneath the image: what is we don't change at all...and something magical just happens.

Optimal enrollment: SEM for small colleges

Mar 12, 2018

Resistance to change may be hurting your enrollment.

Photo of AACRAO's "little free library" which is in the form of a wooden treehouse or over-sized mailbox.

Readers will delight in AACRAO 2018's Little Free (traveling) Library

Mar 12, 2018

Take a book, leave a book.

Photo of the Cuban national capitol building.

HEA Update and AACRAO State and Regional Engagement

Feb 27, 2018

From the AACRAO Government Relations team