AACRAO Publications: College & University
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Volume 83, Number 4(.pdf) 
Features:
Enrollment Management & Managing Enrollment: Setting the Context for Dialogue
— Don Hossler and David Kalsbeek
A Community College Roadmap for the Enrollment Management Journey
— Christine Kerlin
When a Group Presentation Isn't Enough: Financial Aid Advising for Low-Income Urban College-Bound Students
— Kristan M. Venegas and Ronald E. Hallett
An Impossible Dream? The Efficacy of Using Rankings to Improve Perception of a Non-OECD Country's Education System
— Chris J. Foley
Volume 83, Number 3(.pdf)
Features:
Analsys of Variables to Predict First-Year Persistance Using Logistic Regression Analysis at the University of South Florida
— T.E. Miller and C.H. Herreid
Paving the Path to Success: Community Colleges & University Degree Partnerships
— Bruce Clemetsen and Jackie Balzer
Building a SEM Organization: The Internal Consultant Approach
— Jay W. Goff and Jason E. Lane
An Interview with Joe E. Head
— Kim West
Volume 83, Number 2(.pdf)
Features:
Will They Stay or Will They Go? Predicting the Risk of Attrition at a Large Public University
— Thomas E. Miller
Transitioning Transfer Students: Interactive Factors that Influence First-Year Retention
— Mingchu Luo, James E. Williams, and Bruce Vieweg
An Interview with Thomas Huddleston, Jr.
— Thomas LoBasso
Volume 83, Number 1(.pdf)
Features:
Participation in Co-Curricular Activities: Nontraditional Student Perspectives
— David L. Tan and Myron L. Pope
Adaptation in the Ivory Tower: Deciphering the Implementation of Institutional Academic Advising Policy
— Marlene Clapp
Vying for Attention: How Does Advertising Affect Search and College Choice?
— Kristy Tucciarone
An Interview with David L. Evans
— Judy F. Kugel
Volume 82, Number 4(.pdf)
Features:
A Comprehensive Approach to Emergency Planning
— Tracy L. Worsley and Don Beckering
Accounting for Advanced High School Coursework in College Admissions Decisions
— Philip M. Sadler and Robert H. Tai
Legal Bases for Dealing with Academic Dishonesty
— Dennis Bricault
Latino Students: Engaging America's Fastest Growing Minority Group
— James Olive and Shane White
An Interview with Carol A. Twigg
— Elizabeth Clark
Volume 82, Number 3(.pdf)
Features:
Reflections on Strategic Enrollment Management Structures and Strategies (Part Three)
— David H. Kalsbeek
Organizational Models for Enrollment Management at Small Colleges
— Brian A. Vander Schee
American and British Higher Education: Common Problems, Common Responses
— Geoffrey Alderman and Roger Brown
Decision Making in a Joint Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership
— Robert C. Vieth
Volume 82, Number 2(.pdf)
Features:
The Brave New World of Strategic Enrollment Management
— Bob Bontrager
The Influence of Peer Groups on Academic Success
— Margaret W. Sallee and WIlliam G. Tierney
Taking Control of Enrollment Management at Small Private Universities: Creating an Interactive Interface
— Elliot Maltz
Race and Diversity In Higher Education: An Examination of Race-based Admissions and Its Alternatives
— Dannielle Joy Davis
Volume 82, Number 1(.pdf)
Features:
How Can We Simultaneously Enhance Both Academic Excellence and Diversity?
— Robert J. Sternberg
At the Crossroads of Access and Financial Stability: The Push and Pull on the Enrollment Manager
— Keith B. Humphrey, Ph. D.
FERPA: What do Faculty Know? What Can Universities do?
— Ann Gilley and Jerry W. Gilley
Race, Graduating Performance, and Admissions: Georgia State University's Freshman Index
— Jonathan Gayles, Ph.D.
Volume 81, Number 4(.pdf)
Features:
Some Reflections on SEM Structures and Strategies (Part Two)
— David H. Kalsbeek
Is Gender a Predictor of Success in College Mathematics Courses?
— C. Van Nelson and Krystina K. Leganza
Predicting Final GPA of Graduate School Students: Comparing Artificial Neural Networking and Simultaneous Multiple Regression
— Joan L. Anderson
An Evaluation of Enrollment Management Models of the 28 Florida Community Colleges
— Thomas LoBasso
Dying to Get In: Cinematic Views of College Choice
— Patricia Somers, Kristy Tucciarone, Jan Austin, Barbara Keene, Gwen Deloach Packnett, and Laura Stoll
An Interview with Jim Black
— Brad Burch
Volume 81, Number 3(.pdf)
Features:
Some Reflections on SEM Structures and Strategies (Part One)
— David H. Kalsbeek
A New Look at Solving the Undergraduate Yield Problem: The Importance of Estimating Individual Price Sensitivities
— Linda Siefert and Fred Galloway
How High School Students Construct Decision-making Strategies for Choosing Colleges
— George V. Govan, Sondra Patrick, and Cherng-Jyn Yen
Using Non-Cognitive Assessment in College Recruiting: Applying Holland's Self-Selection Assumption
— Cam Cruickshank and Perry Haan
Volume 81, Number 2(.pdf)
Features:
Managing Enrollments When the Levee Breaks
— Richard Whiteside
Managing Student Retention: Is the Glass Half Full, Half Empty, or Simply Empty?
— Don Hossler
The Mission of the Registrar: A Ten-Year Retrospective
— David C. Lanier
Student Information System Implementations: A Context for Campus Change
Results of an AACRAO Membership Survey
— Sharon F. Cramer
Understanding Predisposition in College Choice: Toward an Integrated Model of College Choice and Theory of Reasoned Action
— Paul E. Pitre, Todd E. Johnson and Charisse Cowan Pitre
Summer 2005. Volume 81, Number 1(.pdf)
Features:
Support Services for the Net Generation: The Penn State Approach
— J. James Wager
Latino Peer Groups in College Preparation Programs
— Kristan Venegas and William Tierney
Compliance or Quality? American and British Approaches to the Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions
— Geoffrey Alderman
The American Registrar: A View of the Profession
— Gregory Stewart and Dianne Wright
Spring 2005. Volume 80, Number 4(.pdf)
Features:
Enabling Student Swirl: A Community College/University Dual Enrollment Program
— Bob Bontrager, Bruce Clemetsen, and Tom Watts
Enrollment Management: Key Elements for Building and Implementing and Enrolment Plan
— Janet Ward
The Numbers Game: Phasing in Generated ID Numbers at the University of Oregon
— Sue Eveland
Interview with Dr. David H. Kalsbeek
— David M. Sauter
Winter 2005. Volume 80, Number 3(.pdf)
Features:
Refoucsing Enrollment Management: Losing Structure and Finding the Academic Context
— Stanley E. Henderson
Financial Aid, Access, and America's Social Contract with Higher Education
— Thomas C. Green
The Supreme Court and Affirmitave Action: Historical Notes and the Future from a National Perspective
— Jerome C. Weber, Myron L. Pope, and Michael W. Simpson
Determining the Design of Effective Graduate School Web sites
— Michael C. Poock
Interview with Dick Whiteside
— Kathy Winarski
Fall 2004. Volume 80, Number 2(.pdf)
Features:
Doctoral Education: Present Realities and Future Trends
— Philip G. Altbach
Admissions Comes Out: Recruiting Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Students
— Carl F. Einhaus, Wanda L.E. Viento, and James M. Croteau
Graduate Student Orientation: Applying CAS Standards to National Practices
— Michael C. Poock
Identity and Access Management: Technological Implementation of Policy
— Jeff von Munkwitz-Smith and Ann West
Interview with J. Michael Thompson
— Mary Elisabeth Randall
Summer 2004. Volume 80, Number 1(.pdf)
Features:
Catalyst for Change: A Case Report of a Campus-wide Student Information System Software Implementation Project
— Jan Stivers and N.B. Garrity
Recommendations for the Recruitment and Retention of Transfer Students
— Heidi Kippenhan
Predicting Success of International Graduate Students in an American University
— C. Van Nelson, Jacquelyn S. Nelson, and Bobby G. Malone
Assessing the Effects of Increased Admission Standards
— Cullen F. Goenner and Sean M. Snaith
Tom Steward Interview (Part I): Registrar and SPEEDE's Champion
— David Stones
Tom Steward Interview (Part II): A Little Bit About the Man Behind SPEEDE
— Kathy Winarski
Spring 2004. Volume 79, Number 4(.pdf)
Features:
Is It Leadership or Management?
— Joseph Roof and Kristy Presswood
Strategic Enrollment Management: Core Strategies and Best Practices
— Bob Bontrager
Is High School GPA Better Than Admission Test Scores fro Predicting Academic Success in College?
— Julie P. Noble and Richard L. Sawyer
Exceeding Expectations: The Value of College and University Graduation to Older Female Students
— Rebecca J. M. Kennedy and Courtney Vaughn
Interview with Don Hossler
— Phillippa Wangui Thiuri
Winter 2004.
Volume 79, Number 3(.pdf)
Features:
Weighing Things Up: A Closer Look at U.S. News & World
Report's Ranking Formulas
— Marguerite Clarke
Enrollment Management: An Introduction to Concepts and Structures
— Bob Bontrager
College Savings Plans, Financial Aid, and Tax Strategy
— Richard Whiteside and George S. Mentz
Interview with Cliff Sjogren
— Jennifer P. Hodges
Fall 2003. Volume
79, Number 2(.pdf)
Features:
Language Proficiency Criteria for International Graduate Applicants
to Doctoral 1 Universities
— Camilla Vásquez
Academic Program Planning - Assessing the Variables
— Richard Whiteside and George Mentz
Overtime-Oriented Orientation (Tri-O³): Thriving in a Highly
Competitive Environment
— Wayne Sigler
Interview with Dr. Chrales Nolan Dean of Admissions, Franklin
W. Olin College of Engineering
— Robin Matross Helms
Summer 2003.
Volume 79, Number 1(.pdf)
Features:
Affirmative Action Dodges a Bullet: What May Be Permissible?
What’s Next?
— Barbara Lauren, Ph.D., J.D.
Getting Personal with Today’s Prospective Students: Use of the
Web in the College Selection Process
— Douglas L. Christiansen, Ph.D., Cheryl J. Davidson, Carolyn
D. Roper, M. Christine Sprinkles, and James C. Thomas
Challenging Core Assumptions: Integrating Transformative Leadership
Models Into Campus-wide Implementation Activities
— Sharon F. Cramer, Ph.D
A Student-tracking and Near-future Student Enrollment-forecasting
Model
— Joseph G. Glynn and Thomas E. Miller
Interview with John (Jack) Maguire Chairman, Maguire Associates
— Robin Matross Helms
Spring 2003.
Volume 78, Number 4 (.pdf)
Features:
Identifying College Choice Factors to Successfully Market Your
Institution
— Jeff E. Hoyt, Ph.D. and Andrea B. Brown, M.B.A.
How Well Does the GRE Work for Your University?
— Doris McGartland Rubio, Robert S. Rubin, and Donald G. Brennan
The Perceptions of College Students Regarding the Factors Most
Influential in Their Decision to Attend Postsecondary Education
— Myron L. Pope, Ed.D., and Baranda Fermin
A Longitudinal Study of Non-Cognitive Variables in Predicting
Academic Success of First-Generation College Students
— Siu-Man “Raymond” Ting
Winter 2003.
Volume 78, Number 3 (.pdf)
Features:
The Importance of High School Quality in University Admissions
Decisions
— Mo-Yin S. Tam and Uday Sukhatme
Joint Marketing and Student Recruitment: The State University
of New York University Colleges of Technology Experience
— Clayton A. Smith, Lawrence M. Barrett, David M. Gerlach,
Deborah J. Goodrich, and Paul B. Rose
Characteristics of Effective Graduate School Web Sites: Implications
for the Recruitment of Graduate Students
— Michael C. Poock, Ph.D. and Dennis Lefond, Ph.D.
The Past, Present, and Future of the SAT: Implications for
College Admissions
— John W. Young
Fall 2002. Volume
78, Number 2 (.pdf)
Features:
Causes of Faster-than-Infl ation Increases in College Tuition
— Mark Kantrowitz
Retention of African American Administrators at Predominantly
White Institutions: Using Professional Growth Factors to Inform
the Discussion
— Jerlando F. L. Jackson
Using Linear Regression to Predict the Number of Students in
a Freshman Class
— William N. Anderson, Ph.D.
Metaphors and Motivation: Understanding College Students’
Learning Experiences at Four Types of Schools
— Bohn David Lattin, Jeff Kerssen-Griep, and Jennifer Thede
Summer 2002.
Volume 78, Number 1 (.pdf)
Features:
Does Information Contained in Systems Logs at Colleges and Universities
Constitute Education Records?
— Virginia E. Rezmierski, Ph.D. and Marshall R. Seese, Jr.
Rebuilding Community: A Pilot Program for Decreasing Doctoral
Student Attrition
— Mara H. Wasburn, Ph.D.
A Simplified Approach to Monitoring and Reporting Student Transitions
With a Focus on Retention and Graduation Rates
— Joseph G. Glynn and Thomas E. Miller
Implementing a Web-based Registration and Administration System
for Credit-by-Examination: Graduate Education Course Test Case
— Lih-Ching Chen Wang, Ph.D.
Spring 2002.
Volume 77, Number 4 (.pdf)
Features:
The Efficacy of the Learning Disabilities Diagnostic Inventory
in Postsecondary Settings
— Robin H. Lock and Carol A. Layton
Assessment of the Utility of Parents as Sources of Information
About the College Decisions of Their Children
— Phillip Pratt and David Evans
A More Valid Alternative to TOEFL?
— Ann Roemer
The Importance of College Choice Factors from the Perspective
of High School Counselors
— Suzanne Espinoza, George Bradshaw, and Charles Hausman
Winter 2002.
Volume 77, Number 3 (.pdf)
Features:
Recruiting Urban and Rural Students: Factors Influencing the
Postsecondary Education Institution Choices of Rural Versus Urban
High School Students
— Timothy D. Hodges and John E. Barbuto, Jr.
A Study of the Effect of the Implementation of the Plus/Minus
Grading System on Graduate Student Grades
—Bobby G. Malone, Jacquelyn S. Nelson, and C. Van Nelson
An Evaluation of a College of Education Graduate Admissions
Process: A Non-registrant Perspective
—Kevin J. O’Neill, Catherine C. George, Victor L.Willson,
Troy G. Courville, Jennifer L. McGee, Alfred J. Amado, Jesus Tanguma, and David L.Walker
Mathematics Placement Tests and Gender Bias
—Celine D’Souza Dorner and Ivan Hutton
Fall 2001. Volume
77, Number 2 (.pdf)
Features:
Admission Models for At-Risk Graduate Students in Different
Academic Disciplines
— C. Van Nelson, Bobby G. Malone, and Jacquelyn S.
Nelson
Service Quality in Higher Education: Expectations versus Experiences
of Doctoral Students
— James H. Lampley, Ed.D.
The College Decision-Making of High Achieving Students
— George Bradshaw, Suzanne Espinoza, and Charles Hausman
Measuring the Efficacy of Telemarketing in Student Recruitment
— Susan Wyatt Sedwick, D. Stanley Carpenter, Nestor
W. Sherman, and Alan Tipton
Summer 2001.
Volume 77, Number 1 (.pdf)
Features:
GRE Use Among the Higher Education Community: Historical Practice
is Not Always Best Practice
— Troy Johnson
Variations in Salary and Diversity: Representation of Financial
Aid Directors at Public and Private Institutions
— David Walker
How College-Bound Prospects Perceive University Web Sites: Findings,
Implications, and Turning Browsers into Applicants
— Michael C. Poock and Dennis Lefond
People of Nia: The Story of a Black Graduation
— Lynette Danley Heggins, Jerlando F.L. Jackson and
E. Reginald Parks
Spring 2001.
Volume 76, Number 4 (.pdf)
Features:
The Effect of Academic Scholarships on College Attendance
— Andre Baksh and Jeff E. Hoyt, Ph.D.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Analysis of Grading Trends at
a Small Liberal Arts College, Grade Inflation or Progress?
— William Potter, Melvin A. Nyman, and Karen S. Klumpp
Working Together: Research-Driven Cooperative Strategy for
Sister Colleges
— Michael D.Wiese and Richard L. Gerig
Applying Sanctions for Non-Payment
— Jeffrey von Munkwitz-Smith and Elizabeth Pyle
Winter 2001.
Volume 76, Number 3 (.pdf)
Features:
Re-Engineering of Enrollment Services at Carnegie Mellon
— Linda Anderson & John Papinchak
Factors Influencing Graduation Rates at Mississippi's Public
Universities
— William R. Smith, Julie Horine Edminster & Kathleen
Sullivan
A Content Analysis of College and University Viewbooks (Brochures)
— Robert E. Hite & Alisa Yearwood
Fall 2000. Volume
76, Number 2 (.pdf)
Features:
Beyond the Enrollment Mangement Division: The Enrollment Management
Organization©
— Dr. Peter M. Jonas & Dr. Alexander J. Popovics
I've Always Wanted to Be A..., But Now I'm Not So Sure: A Survey
of Students' Career Plans
— Rosalie R. Young
Performance Management: A New Approach
— Louise Lonabocker
Summer 2000.
Volume 76, Number 1 (.pdf)
Features:
Economic Affirmative Action and Race-blind Policies
— Steven P. Chatman, Ph.D. & Kandis M. Smith, Ph.D
The Perceptions of College and University Enrollment Managers
on the Relationship Between Institutional Enrollment Performance
and Enrollment Management Effectiveness
— Clayton A. Smith, Ed.D.
Transfer Students' Institutional Attendance Patterns: A Case
Study
— Barbara K. Townsend
Enrollment Management as a Portfolio Investment Problem
— Robert E. Martin
Spring 2000.
Volume 75, Number 4 (.pdf)
Features:
The Expanded Grade Context Record at Indiana University and
Its Relationship to Grade Inflation
— R. Gerald Pugh
The Impact of an Online Application Process on Minority Graduate
Students
— Michael C. Poock and Peggy O. Berryhill
Fraud on the Electronic Campus
— David M. Sauter
Winter 2000.
Volume 75, Number 3 (.pdf)
Features:
Strategic Planning: A Defined Vision to Facilitate Institutional
Change
—Charles E. Rickard and Megan A. Harding
Making Your Web Site an Information Clearinghouse
—Kevin Houchin
The Budget Reductions of the Early 1990s: Did Doctoral and
Non-Doctoral Campuses Respond Differently?
—Shahpar Modarresi and James C. Burke
Faculty Opinion on Grade Inflation: Contradictions About its
Cause
—Stephanie J. McSpirit, Paula Kopacz, Kirk E. Jones, and Ann
D. Chapman
Fall 1999. Volume
75, Number 2 (.pdf)
Features:
The Impact of Expanding Professional Contingent Labor Force
on Enrollments in MBA Programs
— Sidney R. Siegel & Rajiv R. Lajmi
Will Higher Education Make a Difference? African Americans’
Economic Expectations and College Choice
— Kassie Freeman
Accuracy of Self-Reported Test Scores
— Guadalupe Anaya