GACRAO’s Annual Meeting will be held on October 6-9, 2012 in Savannah, GA at the Marriott Riverfront. The Executive Committee has been working very hard and we think you’ll like some of the changes we have made to the conference format this year including an opening session/keynote speaker on Sunday afternoon, a reception with vendors Sunday evening, GISEM/WEALTH Preconference sessions held on Saturday afternoon/Sunday morning, and the association dinner and entertainment on Monday (we’ve rented Savannah Smiles- Dueling Pianos).

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Saturday, 6th October 2012

Sessions
15:00

G1.1A GISEM Overview for Beginners

Clint Hobbs

G1.1B Second Year Attendees/REP Field Visits

Kelly Vickers

W1.1 Effective Negotiation Skills

Shauna Carmichael, Romina Torres-Aranda

16:15

G2.1 Legal Issues in Advising

Linda Wofford

Sunday, 7th October 2012

Sessions
10:00

G3.1 Moving the Needle in Backroom Operations: The Presidential Process Improvement Initiative at Columbus State University

John McElveen

W2.1 From Day Dreaming to Achievement: Strategies for more effective execution to reach your goals

Jennifer Copeland, Angela Evans

11:15

G4.1 Reaffirmation and Substantive Change: What Registrars and Admissions Professionals Should Know

Rosemary Royston

W3.1 The Happiness Project: Or, Why I spent a career trying to bring in the class, screen my email, fight right, read everything, and generally liking my job!

Angela Evans, Romina Torres-Aranda

12:30

G5.1 Students Left Behind: Those Selected and Those Overlooked in Student Search

Randy Condit

14:00

S1.1 Complete College Georgia

Dr. Joyce Jones, Tyler Werrick

S1.2 New Professionals Workshop

Kathlyn Burden

14:15

G6.1 GISEM Roundtable

Monday, 8th October 2012

Sessions
08:30

M1.1 Comparability vs. Equivalence: A New Approach to Graduate Admissions

Melanie Gottlieb, Shannon Hink

M1.2 Speed Matriculation & Shorten Time to Degree with Automated Transcript Capture & Evaluation

Chris Daugherty, Kaitlin Standard

M1.3 SACS and Enrollment Services: Your Time WILL Come.

Randy Braswell, Danielle Buehrer

M1.4 Your School Is There but You Work from Here– How does that happen?

Erin Chadwick, Taylor King, Carrie Wise

M1.5 Mean Girls

Dr. Linda Johnston, Romina Torres-Aranda

M1.6 Millions of Transfer Students, One Solution: The Transfer Evaluation System (TES®) from CollegeSource

Shelly May, Kathlyn Burden

09:30

M2.1 International Higher Education Models

Christina White, Brookeanna Herring

M2.2 College Recruiting: Not Just Completed College Applications Anymore

Jonathan Stroble, Libby Grimes

M2.3 The Best (And Worst) of Recruitment Communications 2012 – It’s Time to Reboot the “Com Flow”

Tim Copeland, Virginia Elliott

M2.4 Are we really all that different?

Barbara Wilson, Michael Bethea, Selena Magnuson

M2.5 Road Warriors Represent!

Cindy Peterson, Wendy Stanley, Brooke Jernigan

M2.6 Serving Those Who Served US

Melody Kesler, Frank Wills, Thomas Meunier

11:30

M4.1 Making Friends with Zuckerberg: The Highs and Lows of being an Overachiever

Dr. Rodney Parks, Blake Dye, Sherrie Jennings

M4.2 QR Codes- Electronic Boarding Passes for Event Registration

Melanie Mirande, Patricia Holliman, Leigh-Ann Tribble

M4.3 Plugging Our Leaky Funnel: One Institution's Attempt at Bridging the Gap to Enrollment

Justin Barlow, Michael Richardson, Georgia Edmonds

M4.4 Don't Wait to Wait List

A. Kay Anderson, Heather Metress

M4.5 Upward Trajectory: How Senior Enrollment Managers Identify Future Leaders in the Profession

John Head, Clint Hobbs, John McElveen, Michael Miller, Tyler Werrick

M4.6 Transcript Services: Your Global Electronic Transcript Solution

Joe Roof, Tominica Pines

15:30

M6.1 Real World, Road Rules Challenge: Recruiting Season

Jillian Cleveland, Warren Quirett, Luxi Zhang

M6.2 Commencement Best Practices

A. Kay Anderson, Robin Knight, Rodney Parks

M6.3 Understanding Minority Students Properly

Alba Cobos, Erin Chadwick

M6.4 The Lean Mean Admissions Team

Nate Beardsley, Aisha Willis, Nichole Kennedy

M6.5 Leadership: Influencing People by Providing Purpose, Direction, and Motivation

James Johnson Jr, Callie Hammond

M6.6 Simplify the Catalog. Manage the Curriculum Process.

Joshua Hoagland

M6.7 Georgia Education Articulation Committee: PROBE Update

Bill Smith, Tim Copeland

16:15

M5.1 Recruiting the Military Student. Best practices for recruiting the Military Student

Mark Ridley

M5.2 The Campus Experience

Virginia Elliott, Carrie Wise

M5.3 Enhancing Enrollment Services Customer Service: Collaborative Development of a State of the Art Call Center

Rebekah Butcher, Marty Hicks

M5.4 These Nails Don't Do Dirt….Anymore!

Dr. Tyra Wingo

M5.5 Diploma Do's and Don’ts

Melody Kesler

M5.6 Connect or Perish!

Bob Harth, Justin Barlow

Tuesday, 9th October 2012

Sessions
08:45

T1.1 Where in the World is Your Data? See it using Google Tools.

Melanie Mirande, Patricia Holliman, Jenn Taylor, Scott Argo

T1.2 Coast into High School Visits with a Wave of information

William Brown, Charita Hardy, Anne Weisel, Erin Chadwick, Taylor King

T1.3 Georgia Transfer Articulation Cooperation Services (GATRACS) Update

Daphene Blackmon, Ana Edwards

T1.4 Leveraging Scanning to Improve Efficiency in Large Volume Admissions Offices

Richard Beaubien, David Jenkins

T1.5 Ahead of the Curve: Automate document-intensive processes, achieve measurable ROI and better serve students, faculty and staff

Chris Ivey, Johnny Kahn

T1.6 Learn more about Perceptive Software

Lisa Sprouse, Teresa Spires

09:45

T2.1 Beyond the Catalog- Rethinking Academic Content

Nicole Arsenault, Cindy Peterson

T2.2 Importance of Veterans Resource Center's/ Military Outreach

Frank Willis, David Carper, Andrew Langdon, Tara Ryals

T2.3 Fostering a Culture of Continuous Improvement in Background Operations: The Process Improvement Initiative at Columbus State University

Susan Lovell, John Brown, Ameena Clark

T2.4 Navigating the Guides: a multi-campus ambassador program.

Kelly Billings, Kelsey Heiple, Erika Condon, Paco Paredes

T2.5 Understanding Personality Types In The Workplace

Kathlyn Burden, Alberto Perez-Visbal

T2.6 Utilizing a Master Calendar Process to Strategically Coordinate Major Campus Events

Rodney Miller, Kristin Williams