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11/22/2017
In an article published in The Atlantic, titled: “How Campus Racism Could Affect Black Students' College Enrollment” AACRAO’s Associate Executive Director for Consulting and SEM, Dr. Tom Green, is quoted warning against concluding that the declining yield rates of black students applying to UVA means they are less interested.
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11/20/2017
At the 2017 SEM conference, presenter Dr. Liz Gross of the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation offered insights about how to leverage social listening for the benefit of branding, enrollment, and awareness. The session was entitled, "Beyond Likes and Shares: How Social Listening Can Impact Enrollment Management Outcomes."
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11/17/2017
At the AACRAO SEM Conference on Monday, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Vice Provost of Enrollment Management Diane Walleser, along with colleagues from the admissions, registration and financial aid departments, presented a session on “Managing the Messy Middle of Change.”
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11/13/2017
At the 2017 SEM Conference in Phoenix, the SEM Conference advisory board met to discuss this year’s content and look ahead to 2018 planning. At their meeting, the group was riveted by a recently-released AACRAO study on the the career path of the Chief Enrollment Officer. That study indicates that there will be almost 750 upcoming vacancies in the field of enrollment management.
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11/10/2017
Since President Obama introduced the 2020 goal to increase the percentage of citizens with college degrees, completion rates and how to improve them have been at the forefront of higher education institutional agendas. AACRAO researchers Wendy Kilgore, Ph.D., Director of Research at AACRAO and Jacob I. Wilson, Research Intern, set out to understand how certain completion initiatives are impacting student completion rates.
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11/09/2017
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11/06/2017
At the AACRAO SEM meeting on Monday, Tara Sprehe*, of Clackamas Community College in Portland, Oregon, facilitated a discussion about the challenges and opportunities facing SEM professionals in community colleges.
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11/03/2017
AACRAO Senior Consultant Wendy Kilgore and Vice President of Research at Hobsons, Ellen Wagner, have written an article in AACRAO’s September 2017 College & University Journal titled: "Dual Enrollment from two points of view: Higher Education and K-12".
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10/27/2017
Dr. Rodney Parks, University Registrar and Assistant to the Provost, Jess Parrish, Assistant Registrar for Communications and Blake Whitesell, a former undergraduate research assistant in the Office of Registrar at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, co-authored an article in AACRAO’s September 2017 College & University Journal.
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10/26/2017
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10/20/2017
In preparation for its 27th Annual SEM Conference, AACRAO has released a special edition of Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly. Over the past five years, SEMQ has highlighted the work of enrollment management practitioners, from distinguished thought leaders, as well as young, emerging researchers in the field. This special issue includes selected articles from the past five years of the peer-reviewed journal, presenting core SEM concepts including:
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10/16/2017
AACRAO strives to facilitate the move towards more data driven decision making models by providing a venue for content experts to share their findings with the higher education community. At the 2017 Strategic Enrollment Management Conference in Phoenix, see how cutting-edge research is changing the SEM landscape.
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10/13/2017
Randall Langston, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Texas Woman’s University (TWU), is a big believer in the effectiveness of well-utilized data.
“Our success at Brockport-SUNY [Langston’s previous institution] helped us increase enrollment,” he said. “We ended up with record enrollment, a record number of first-time students, and record number of transfer students -- all achieved in an environment where students were leaving the state.”
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10/09/2017
Pre-Conference Workshops
SEM Institute (Additional Fee) – Sunday, October 29 – 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Writing a SEM Plan (No Fee) – Sunday, October 29 – 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Afternoon Half-Day Workshops (Additional Fee) – Sunday, October 29 – 2:00 – 4:45 p.m.
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10/06/2017
The pressure to find new students keeps ratcheting up and our enrollment marketing strategies have been evolving quickly to keep pace. With demographic shifts, declines in domestic high school graduation rates, budgetary pressures, and—more positively—the growing importance of internationalization to prepare our students for careers in the global economy it is not surprising that international enrollment on almost every college and university campus in the United States and Canada has been rising (in many cases quite dramatically) over the past decade.
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10/06/2017
In a statement issued on October 6, three higher education associations set forth guidelines on student transfer and the awarding of college credits.
AACRAO, together with the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the American Council on Education, base their guidelines on the “essential principle” that every college and university determines its own approach to the transfer of credit.
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09/28/2017
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09/26/2017
Starting a new job can lead to excitement, nervousness, and every emotion in between. For many, it’s an easy transition, but what if you find yourself in over your head?
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09/18/2017
Since Tennessee first began “Tennessee Promise” in 2015, a two-year program that provides free tuition at a Tennessee community or technical college, five other states along with two California cities have passed and implemented similar free tuition programs to encourage and facilitate college attendance and success.
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09/14/2017
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