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LOS ANGELES — You don't want to make your workplace a place of stress that mitigates the good being done at your institution. In a session at the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers annual conference, Tammy Aagard, associate vice president for enrollment management at the University of Florida; and Shelley Dodd, director of admissions at the University of Wyoming, shared practical strategies for reducing the friction and pain points in your office, helping workers navigate the workplace more efficiently, and creating an enthusiastic office environment.

Sylvia Burgess, associate vice president of academic affairs at Cameron University, wears a lot of hats. Not only is she the associate vice president of academic affairs, but she also acts as the director for continuing and adult education at CU. Like many adult‐serving institutions, CU offers both live and asynchronous courses, and it also offers remote adult learners a third option: the option to stream and interact with faculty members from a remote location via the Zoom webinar platform. It's become a way for adult students who might have moved away or not yet completed their studies to stay connected with the university, Burgess said.

ATLANTA — If a picture's worth a thousand words, then an accurate snapshot of how your institution will enrich the lives of your students is worth at least a brochure. But how can you properly convey the full scope of the return on investment students can expect when they attend your institution?

CLEVELAND — Clarifying the meaning of your credentials — identifying skills and competencies they teach your students, what value they have in the labor market, and, ultimately, which career paths they guide your students toward — can be a useful tool in helping prospective and current students, along with employers and policymakers, see the value in higher education.

ATLANTA — In 2018, San Diego State University had the number‐one six‐year graduation rate for actual versus predictive graduation rates, which was determined by comparing the university's actual graduation rate to the rate analysts would expect, given such factors as financial resources, admissions data, proportion of economically disadvantaged students, social mobility, and STEM orientation. The actual number of students who graduate from SDSU over the course of six years is more than 75 percent.

CLEVELAND — Working with adult learners comes with a particular challenge in that adult learners at your institution can, and will, cross generational lines. When recruiting adult learners, you might be speaking to members of several different generations — everyone from baby boomers to Generation X to millennials, all with different needs, expectations, and sources of motivation.

Beth Rubin, Ph.D., has worked in adult and online education at both nonprofit and for‐profit institutions. In her current role as dean of adult and online education at Campbell University, Rubin is in a unique position to have learned from the best of both worlds, and tries to bring that philosophy to her current work. "I've done adult and online learning at a range of both for‐profits and nonprofits, which gives me a different experience base and perspective," Rubin said.

CLEVELAND — Offering credit for prior learning can be a successful tool for recruiting adult learners to your campus. That's often even more true for student‐veterans, whose military service has brought them copious life and learning expertise, which may not always be easy to translate into traditional academic credits. "Learning does not occur only in the classroom," said TK Stoudt, adjunct instructor at the University of Louisville and graduate student at the University of Wyoming.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In 2015, Stockton University officials decided to pursue a large goal: increase the 8,400 undergraduate students enrolled in fiscal year 2016 to 10,000 students in FY 2021 in order to balance the institutional budget. To reach that goal, as well as make the new campus a thriving, robust arm of the institution, the enrollment management office had to break down siloes between different departments.

"I had a traditional college experience myself, but I just kind of fell into [working with transfer students]," said Craig Howard, associate director of transfer admissions at the University of North Texas. For the last 12 years, Howard has recruited transfer students to various universities, the most recent being UNT. He shared thoughts on how to make your institution stand out in a crowded marketplace, the importance of strong transfer agreements, and traits to look for in students that will help determine if they're a good fit for your campus.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — "Unconscious bias lives in all of us," said Mee Moua, principal at Interdependent Group LLC and consultant at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, at a session on advancing racial equity presented at the annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

More than half of secondary institutions reported a rise in student activism in students bound for college, according to data from two surveys conducted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling. One survey studied trends in high school students as reported by secondary school counselors. A complementary survey was administered to university admissions officers and institutional researchers to determine trends in admission.

PHOENIX — There's no crystal ball that can look into the future of the field of admissions and tell us exactly what it is we need to prepare for. But we can study and analyze recent historical trends to see what we need to do to be better equipped for our future students and our future careers. That was the message from Amy Reitz, general manager of the Intersect™ line at Hobsons, who spoke to the trends and challenges facing admissions counselors at the 2017 annual Strategic Enrollment Management Conference hosted by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The setting of your campus is integral to the atmosphere of your institution and the success of your students. The strong ties your students develop with your campus and the surrounding community can be key to retaining them successfully through graduation. When Monroe Community College, a college associated with the State University of New York System, developed a downtown campus, academic leaders wanted to be sure the setting was a rich and integrated aspect of the campus.