AACRAO NetNews
Volume VI, Number 10
December 17, 1998
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
Editor: Paul Aucoin <pgaucoin@samford.edu>
Subscription Manger: Erika Watts <wattse@aacrao.nche.edu>
Monty Nielson has moved from his position as
Registrar at Washington State University to Registrar at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. The move took place on October 1, 1998. Monty is deep into his job at Madison
working on the development of new programs bringing Wisconsin to the forefront in
technology involving the Registrar's Office and its relationship with the campus and the
entire university system.
Former AACRAO Associate Executive Director (1993-97), Roger M.
Swanson, has accepted the position of Vice President at USA Group Noel-Levitz,
based out of Littleton, Colorado. During 1998, he has continued his work on the AACRAO
Annual Meetings in Chicago and Charlotte and the recent Strategic Enrollment Management
Conference in Aspen. Roger also engaged in various consulting activities, including
a six-month, in-residence appointment at Arizona State University West. His work for
Noel-Levitz will focus primarily upon consulting on recruitment and retention for client
campuses. Roger will begin January 1, 1999, when his e-mail address will be roger-swanson@noellevitz.com. Roger will
live in Littleton, which is a suburb just south of downtown Denver.
And on a couple of sad notes:
James L. Moore, Registrar at Ohio Northern University from 1996 to 1991 and Ohio ACRAO President in 1976, died Thanksgiving Day. Jim, who was 67, was diagnosed with ALS in the fall of 1997. Jim is survived by his wife, Dolores Wickline Moore, two sons, a daughter, two sisters and five grandsons. He was a graduate of West Virginia University Institute of Technology and Marshall University. A veteran of the US Army, he spent his career as an administrator in higher education, also serving as Assistant Registrar at Marshall University from 1958-1964, and as Registrar at Towson State University, 1964-1966. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the ALS Association, 299 E. Kelso Road, Columbus, Ohio 43202-2305.
Also, Joe Frazier, retired Registrar at the Montana State University died suddenly of a heart attack on November 2 at his home in Bozeman. He was very active in both AACRAO and Pacific ACRAO and had previously served at the University of Idaho.
President
Reports on Board Meeting
Budget: Additional work is needed on the Fiscal Year 2000 Budget.
The final recommendation for this budget will be made on a Conference Call on January 20,
1999.
Board and Committee Restructuring: Committee Chairs for 1999-2000 will be invited to Washington for meetings with the Board on February 27 and 28. Besides discussing the future of AACRAO which includes increased volunteerism, final discussion will take place on restructuring. Hopefully some of the changes will be made by consolidating some committees and improving their participation. Present committees "could" become either Program Committees or Work Groups. Program Committees would be concerned only with the Annual Meeting while Work Groups would have specific tasks and could also prepare sessions for the Annual Meeting.
Constitution and ByLaws Changes: Jeff Tanner, Chair of the Past President's Task Force was present on Friday, December 11. A little more work is needed before the suggested changes are presented in the February Data Dispenser. However,the chances are very good that a "revised" mission statement will be presented as well as suggesting that our name be changed to "ACRAO." By eliminating "American" we will indicate our international presence BUT will still be known as "ACRAO."
Task Force 2000: Christine Kerlin, TF2000 Chair, was also present on December 11. The future plans and goals of AACRAO will be shaped by this excellent document.
Office Staffing: Executive Director Jerry Sullivan announced that the AACRAO Staff is almost complete. Presently there are 17 full-time staff plus Julia Funaki who is part-time in OIES plus Saira Burki, who is presently part-time as Editor, and Jim Caputo, the financial consultant. Soon additional people will be hired in publications and communications.
Annual Meeting: The Charlotte 1999 Annual Meeting is near. Please check the details in the AACRAO Web Page @ http://www.AACRAO.com
International Education Research Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit public
benefit agency, announces the opening of the application period for the 1999 IERF Research
Grants.
The purpose of International Education Research Foundation (IERF) Research Grants is to
encourage and promote research on world educational systems that supports applied
comparative education, specifically, the evaluation of foreign educational credentials.
The grants are also intended to aid in the publication and distribution of the results of
such research.
Non-renewable single grants will be awarded for specific projects in amounts of up to
$5,000. Grants may also be awarded for partial payment of larger research projects.
Individuals or organizations may be eligible for the grants:
Proposals will be considered on the basis of: 1) the degree to which the research is on
world educational systems, 2) the relevance of the research to current issues in the field
of credential evaluation, 3) the intended target population, 4) the degree to which the
integration of non-U.S. educated individuals into the U.S. educational system and/or
workforce, is addressed, 5) the plan for dissemination of the results of the research, and
6) the degree to which the proposal supports the educational, philanthropic, and
charitable purposes of IERF.
Applicants should submit a one-page summary of the intended research plan addressing the
above factors no later than February 1, 1999. Also include the amount of grant requested
along with other possible funding sources, an indication of how you learned about the
grant availability, and vitae of the principal participant(s) in the project. From the
original applicants, finalists will be chosen by April 1st and requested to submit
complete research plans for final evaluation and an award decision.
All material submitted in support of the grant application becomes the property of IERF
and will not be returned to the applicant. Questions about the grant may be addressed to
Diane M. Roney, Executive Director of IERF via email droney@ierf.org.
Applications should be submitted to:
IERF
Attention: Grant Committee
P.O. Box 66940
Los Angeles, CA 90066
You should have recently received your copy of the printed-on-paper Data Dispenser. The next issue of the Data Dispenser will be in the new webpage format and include these two articles by Brenda Ashford:
Prior Learning Assessment Project: An article about AACRAO's
partnership with the UAW-Ford Educational Center and higher education associations to
develop replicable models of assessing and awarding credit for prior learning experiences.
Nontraditional Education: Also to be featured an article about the
completion of AACRAO's study on Nontraditional Education programs. The article discusses
the study's objectives, issues examined, and summary findings.
Caught
in the Surf
The following websites may be useful to you or a colleague:
If you have students who need to register for the draft, the Selective Service has activated an online registration site that will allow young men to fulfill their obligation to register with the Service in case they should ever be needed for military service. The online program will match information entered by the registrant with the government's Social Security base, and then send an acknowledgment through the mail. The site is at http://www.sss.gov/regist.htm
Scott Dittman, Registrar at Washington and Lee University, passes on the following five sites:
FIPS code information on line:
Countries (with regions) http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/pubs/fip10-4.htm
National Center for Education Stattistics: http://nces.ed.gov/index.html
Martindale's Reference Desk: http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/~martindale/Ref.html
The three next sites from tudogs includes this one with hundreds of free dhtml (dynamic html) scripts. Bring your site alive with dhtml, for generation 4 browsers, but with backward compatibility. Found at http://tudogs.com/author2.html
The International Fitness Association has a great site is for both fitness professionals and fitness enthusiasts. There's everything you could possibly want to know about fitness programs - fitness FAQs, aerobic moves, fitness ABCs - not to be missed by anyone who realizes that fitness enhances enjoyment of life. Found at http://tudogs.com/health.html
Laurie's Graphics has bullets, bars, banners, backgrounds, borders and icons - with some animated knickknacks thrown in. The work is all original and free. Found at http://tudogs.com/clipart1.html
Note: If you know of a website that you think may be useful to your colleagues, please send the URL to me so that it may be considered for inclusion in a future issue of NetNews. If you tell a little about why you like it, I'll even credit you with the catch.
Send it to pgaucoin@samford.edu
Training is a Billion Dollar Business
According to the December 2 issue of Investor's Business Daily, U.S. companies will spend $60 billion this year on training their employees, and increasingly that process is being conducted over the Web. According to International Data Corporation, technology-based training systems have grown 40% annually in recent years, and analysts expect that trend to continue.
One producer of online training software points out that offering online training in such sensitive subjects as sexual harassment provides a level of privacy not found in classroom training programs. "The privacy of the computer makes people more psychologically open. People would rather go to the computer than talk about it in a group training session."
"Institutional Opportunities for Advanced Networking"
January 7-9, 1999, Austin, Texas
http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/jan99/
NLII New Orleans '99 Meeting
National Learning Infrastructure Initiative
January 31-February 2, 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/orleans99/.index.html
The EDUCAUSE Institute Management Program
February 7-11, 1999, Palm Springs, California
http://www.educause.edu/inst/inst.html
AACRAO's 85th Annual MeetingApril 18-21, 1999 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The planned
program and other Information is available on the AACRAO Website, http://www.aacrao.com/am98/index.html
CUMREC '99 - "Breaking Through: 2000 and Beyond"
May 9-12, 1999, San Antonio, Texas
http://www.cumrec.com/cumrec99/cumrec99.html
AACRAO Annual Meetings:
April 18-22, 1999, Charlotte, NC http://www.charlotte.com and http://www.aacrao.com/am98/index.html
April 2-6, 2000, New Orleans, LA http://www.neworleans.com
April 21-25, 2001, Seattle, WA http://www.seattle.com/visiting/index.html
April 13-18, 2002, Minneapolis, MN
April 6-10, 2003, Washington, DC
Position
Announcements
You may now view position announcements at the AACRAO website. Point your browser to:
http://www.aacrao.com/professional/jobs.html
Contact Satomi Matsumae at the AACRAO Office if you wish to place a paid announcement on
the site, (202) 293-9161 or by e-mail to: satomi@aacrao.nche.edu
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