The mission of the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (SACRAO) is to provide for the dissemination of information, the exchange of ideas, and leadership in policy interpretation in the region. To maintain a leadership position in pursuit of this mission, SACRAO identifies and promotes standards and best practices affecting admission officers, registrars and other academic support, and student-service professionals.

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Sunday, 20th February 2011

Sessions
01:00

WS1.01 - Four Steps to Effective Staff Training and Development

Ron White, Michael Nichols

WS1.02 - Veterans Enrollment Certification and The Post-9/11 GI Bill

Michael Rogers

WS1.03 - Managing Identity Management

V. Shelby Stanfield, Michelle Johnson

17:00

Opening General Session and Keynote Address

Tim Culhan, MARSHAWN EVANS

Monday, 21st February 2011

Sessions
08:45

M1.01 - In Their Own Words: High School Students Define the Boundaries of Facebook and Other Social Media

Roger Jones, Nathaniel Hancock

M1.02 - A Career in Higher Education? Climbing the Ladder to Success in Higher Education

John T. Fletcher

M1.03 - Predicting Course Demand using Data Mining Techniques

V. Shelby Stanfield, Brenda Schumann

M1.04 - Prelude to Pomp and Circumstance

Kristi Harrison

M1.05 - Online Admissions Review – How to customize an admissions document viewer so that no one misses paper

Robert LeHeup

M1.06 - Registrar's Tool Kit - Panel Session

Brad E. Barron, Thomas Donohoe, Barbara Wilson

M1.08 - Fostering Academic Integrity with Generation Y

Steve Holt

M1.09 - Speed Matriculation and Shorten Time to Degree with Automated TCE - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Tim Atkinson

M1.10 - Examining the Mobile Web and How Your School Can Respond Today -CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Ken Blais

M1.11 - Help Students Create Perfect Class Schedules each Semester! Web-based Schedule Planner for Students - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Robert Stazzarino

10:30

M2.01 - Bulletin! Calling All Publications!

Rob Hirtz

M2.02 - FERPA Information and Training

Joe Papari

M2.03 - College Counselor Panel Session

Ivy Brewer, Gretchen Anderson

M2.04 - Disability and Society

Brian Smith

M2.05 - A Day at Disney - Customer Service from the Back Lot

Bobbye Fry

M2.06 - Summer START: A Road to Student Success

Nicole Wood

M2.07 - Automating Grade Changes Through Workflow

Ken Foshee

M2.08 - The Registrar's Office of the Future

John A. Hall

M2.09 - Usability Testing - Determining if a website is easily used by others

Sandy Martinez

M2.10 - eTranscripts and Document Tracking – Services for Students, Alumni and Admissions - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Dennis Dulniak, Ron Hyman

M2.11 - Attract, Retain, and Graduate: Tools for the Promoting Student Success - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Melani Pratt, Shelly May

13:00

M3.01 - Dynamic Technology in the Recruitment Process (GPS-based tours, videos, and social media)

Nicole Wood

M3.02 - Leverage Degree Works Scribing to Implement University Academic Policy

Shannon Tipton

M3.03 - We’re In This Together: Networking and Collaboration

Jeremy Gray, Zachary Hayes

M3.04 - Transgender 101

Jack Miner

M3.05 - The Importance of Workstation Security – Defense in Depth

Kyle R. Page, Jim D. Murphy

M3.06 - Is Your Staff Ready for a Multicultural World? - Panel Session

Eric M. Stokes, Jackie Pearson, Joe Montgomery

M3.07 - The IT Razor: What's New on the Bleeding Edge

D Scott Dittman

M3.09 - Automating the Admission Process - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Lisa Sprouse

M3.10 - Commencement: Back-stage planning means on-stage success - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Mark Hommerding, Karen D. Haywood

M3.11 - Finding Stealth Student...Before They Apply - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Tim Copeland

14:15

M4.01 - Welcome to the Circus: Registrars' Balancing Acts - Forum

Beth Shively

M4.02 - Overview of SEM Reporting and dashboards using Cognos

Jim Anderson

M4.03 - “Hold my hand”: Assisting the Millennial Generation

Carla Tiu

M4.04 - FERPA Overview

LeRoy S. Rooker

M4.05 - Training Faculty To Think Like Marketers

John L. Mason, Dr. Elaine Artman, Dr. Terry Mills

M4.06 - Is this Credit Legit?

James Patton

M4.07 - Managing Demanding, Difficult, Demeaning students/parents without getting Demoralized

Dorinda Q. Harmon

M4.08 - Cooperative Recruitment Efforts

Katie Gibson, Niki DeWeese

M4.11 - Electronic Curriculum Management - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Dana Browne

16:00

M4.10 - Electronic Transcript Processing Made Easy - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Paul Taylor, Joe Roof

M5.01 - Doing the work on admissions processing workflow

Cheryl Rich, Jim Murphy

M5.02 - Collection of Data for the Academic Calendar

Bill Burig, Misty Lenhart

M5.05 - Advanced Helicopter Parent Management

Sheryl Gray

M5.06 - College Incorporated!

Barmak Nassirian

M5.07 - Strategically Using Your Website for Recruitment

Dennis Scheidt, Mike Robinson, Lee Insko

M5.10 - Improve Efficiency in Enrollment Services with ImageNow from Perceptive Software - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Tiffany Siegrist

Tuesday, 22nd February 2011

Sessions
08:00

T1.01 - Who needs women leaders? We all do!

Jairo McMican

T1.02 - Immigration 101: Just the Basics for Registrars, Admissions, and Financial Aid Officers

Marisa Atencio

T1.03 - Learning from Life History: Critical Reflection & Creating an Educational/Professional Autobiography

Matthew P. McCrickard

T1.04 - Washington Update

Barmak Nassirian

T1.05 - Retention Through Better Course Access

Michelle Johnson, Holly Swart

T1.06 - Greening Your Commencement

Jennifer White

T1.07 - Automating the Transient Letter Request Process

Denny Savage

T1.08 - The Seven Deadly Sins of Recruitment

Ron White, Michael Nichols

T1.09 - Advance Standing Credit: Clarifying Policies from AP, IB SATII and Other Credit Sources

Audrey Shinner

T1.10 - Electronic Transcripts & Online Ordering: For Current AND Former Students - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Carol Nobles

T1.11 - Managing Your Course Inventory and Curriculum - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Greg Soare

09:00

T2.03 - Modernizing Your Office Website

Barbara L. Rowe

T2.04 - Friends of the Institution: The Politics of People Who Know People - Panel Session

Clint Hobbs, Kim West, Nancy McDuff

T2.05 - Mooooove! - Recruitment based on prospect and applicant movement

Michael Nichols, Stacy Bartlett, Dennis Scheidt

T2.06 - Creating the Registered Enrollment Professional - Forum Session

Joseph W. Evans, Joe F. Head, Susan Blake

T.207 - Auto-Scheduling Classrooms

Larry Hammer

T2.08 - FERPA - Recent Changes and Update

LeRoy S. Rooker

T2.09 - Creating Online Experiences for New Students

Jason Long

T2.10 - “What to do about diplomas?” - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Elizabeth Kunde

T2.11 - Go Paperless! Docufide’s College Services for Inbound/Outbound Electronics Academic Records - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Mike Erwin

13:30

T3.02 - Being a PROfessional: You have a job now what?

Timothy McLeod

T3.03 - Still No Raises? Motivating and Retaining Staff in Tough Economic Times

Jeremy Gray, Zachary Hayes

T3.04 - Who Shall be First and Who Shall be Last? - Panel Session

Hansford M. Epes, Craig Womack, Rodney Miller

T3.05 - Forum for Enrollment Management/Registration Professionals of Color - Forum Session

Roger Jones

T3.06 - Veterans Transition to Higher Education

Tyrone Travis

T3.08 - Process Re-Engineering in Higher Education

Luisa Havens

T3.09 - Making Informed Classroom Utilization Decisions

Holly Swart

T3.10 - Online Transcript Processing: Understanding the Fulfillment Alternatives - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Jack Weber, Ben Laetz

T3.11 - Banner Relationship Management: CRM for Higher Education - CORPORATE PARTNER SESSION

Jo Ellen Wilson

15:00

T4.01 - Student Ambassadors: Recruiting Students of Color

Leslie Jackson

T4.02 - SPEEDE - The past, present and future of the UT Austin SPEEDE Server

Angela Svoboda

T4.03 - Bridging Function and Technology: Finding Harmony with Central IT

Zachary Hayes, David Adcock

T4.04 - Marketing Strategy & Implementation - Who's responsible?

Tia D. Lane, Robert Glass

T4.05 - Hola America! Latino Students in the South

Melody Rodriguez, M.Ed.

T4.06 - From Student to Supervisor: Transitioning Issues for New Managers

Adam Lawrence

T4.07 - For Better or Worse: The Marriage Between Recruiting at State Flagship Universities and Small Privat

Jackie Pearson, Joe Carlos

T4.08 - Assessment in the Registrar's Office

Reta Pikowsky

T4.09 - Student System Implementation and Facebook, an Odd Couple

Richard D. Skeel

16:00

T5.01 - Banner Users

Brandy Cartmell

T5.02 - PeopleSoft Users

Mary W. Kincannon

T5.03 - Datatel Users

David H. Stones

T5.04 - Jenzabar Users

Lacey Satterfield, Janet Rodning

T5.05 - Alliant Data Systems Users

Mandy Lanier

T5.06 - Power Campus Users

Pat Strickland

Wednesday, 23rd February 2011

Sessions
08:00

W1.01 - The Future of Accreditation - Plenary Session

Dr. Belle Wheelan

10:15

W2.01 - Admissions and Enrollment Management Forum

Valerie Samuel Crawford

W2.02 - Registrar Forum

W. Michael George