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08/06/2020
Higher education’s response to the pandemic and rising social movements is likely to shape institutions for years, even decades, to come. Decisions at this time may have lasting, and sometimes unintended, consequences.
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08/03/2020
Admit It, the AACRAO admissions podcast, is back with Season 2.
The first episode features Dr. William (Bill) E. Sedlacek and focuses on "noncognitive assessments," a term that is not without controversy. These are non-traditional measures of students' potential to succeed that move away from solely defining "best students" by known scales such as GPA, test scores, leadership, involvement, and accomplishments and instead attempt to assess who students are as people. Many campuses already use a holistic admissions process, which may include gauging a student's positive sense of self, realistic self-appraisal, and more.
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07/30/2020
"The reality about your students, particularly if you have an applicant pool that is diverse socioeconomically, is that your students are doing hidden but Herculean and unbelievable things every single day. And that fact of the matter is that they don't talk about those things in college applications [...]."
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07/30/2020
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07/30/2020
Students are perhaps more perceptive and realistic when it comes to transferred credits than one would expect.
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07/27/2020
AACRAO's Associate Executive Director, Consulting and SEM, Dr. Tom Green was quoted in EdSurge's recent article, "As Colleges Move Away from the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?"
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07/20/2020
In the latest episode of AACRAO's Admit It podcast, host James Miller interviews Dr. William Sedlacek on noncognitive assessment and how it can be used to predict success in higher education. Many institutions have successfully implemented noncognitive assessment as a part of their admissions process. Referred to as holistic or broad-based admissions, this process is a method of identifying and admitting students, beyond evaluation of GPA and test scores, who can thrive at an institution.
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07/16/2020
AACRAO celebrates the swift response of the the higher education community in opposition to the Trump administration's ill-conceived policy that would have required international students to attend in-person classes in the fall in order to remain in the country.
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07/14/2020
Whether one calls it transfer, swirl, mobility, or some new, yet-to-be-seen nomenclature, the concept of students attending multiple institutions, whether simultaneously or for different periods, is no longer new. John Gardner referred to collegiate student transfer as “the new normal” in 2012 and AACRAO held its first transfer conference four years before that. Moreover, with 33% of all undergraduates transferring at least one time during their academic career (NSC 2012), why do institutions still struggle to court, let alone support, this population?
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07/09/2020
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07/08/2020
"There's a tremendous variation in how [faculty] assess, in how they grade and that is part of the problem and part of why we keep leaning back into the carnegie unit. Because it's quite simple. Because it's numerical. Because it's an accounting measure. So we can all agree that it's not the way to measure learning but we can't seem to agree on a best way that we should."
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07/08/2020
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06/26/2020
Upcoming transfer credit research, accessibility for students with disabilities, and more.
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06/18/2020
Mike Reilly discusses some concerns about what information institutions will be asked to provide as directory information.
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06/17/2020
As the world is coping and trying to manage during the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges and universities are expanding their current admissions approach by adding holistic measures that present a more “whole” view of who a student is and their ability to succeed. “Holistic admissions” as a term has been around for 20 years, with various definitions as to what additional aspects are being considered in order to provide a more “whole” view of a student.
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06/09/2020
"Somebody may have a talent or an ability that you want to maximize and maybe you need to change your structure so that they can be more successful in their role."
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06/09/2020
Registrars are often called the “hub” or “heart” of campus, and for good reason. The registrar’s office is a central, essential component of the institutional ecosystem, touching students at every phase of the academic journey from applicant to alumni.
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06/08/2020
"The Asian American & Pacific Islander experience is paradoxical. It is one of simultaneous action and inaction where survival and silencing pervade existence."
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06/08/2020
This month AACRAO's College & University Journal features an interview with Luisa Havens Gerardo, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Virginia Tech, who has served AACRAO as president, vice president for access and equity, chair of the international admissions committee, and member of the nominations committee and the program committee for the Annual Meeting.
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06/03/2020
Mike Reilly discusses how institutions can work to provide the U.S. Census Bureau the relevant information needed to complete an accurate count.
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