<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Greetings from ACT, <br>
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Just a quick reminder hoping some of our OACRAO friends can join us in
New Orleans this April ! This email serves as notification to register
(if you have yet to do so) to attend the 14th Annual ACT Southwest
Region Conference on College Readiness and Success. This year's conference
will be held at the contemporary W hotel in festive New Orleans from Wednesday,
April 28, 2010, through Friday, April 30, 2010. The 14th annual conference
coincides with the internationally recognized New Orleans Jazz Fest! http://www.nojazzfest.com/
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The conference will provide you and your staff with a great low-cost opportunity
for professional development as well as an opportunity to experience what
many consider the best "cultural and musical festival" in the
world. As a non for profit partner of higher education, ACT is sensitive
to budget constraints that many are experiencing and is able to offer this
conference at a very low cost of $145.00 per person. This cost includes
four meals. Conference and registration information is available on our
website at: <br>
http://act.org/cgi-bin/cal/cal.pl?CODE=5402 <br>
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The 14th Annual ACT Southwest Conference will provide postsecondary administrators,
from both student and academic affairs, with the opportunity to learn more
about best practices associated with testing/assessment , student recruitment,
course placement, remediation and retention related strategies. All session
presenters are postsecondary administrators who will share expert insight
relative to how they have been successful in achieving critical institutional
goals on their respective campuses. An informative enrollment management/admissions
related track has been added to this year's conference along with sessions
that will focus on innovative uses of ACT's COMPASS system for diagnostic
testing and high-school outreach. Most of the conference will focus on
how ACT's programs and services, specifically the COMPASS internet version,
can strategically be used to enhance student success initiatives associated
with recruitment, placement, advancement and retention. The
conference is well attended each year and provides a wide array of campus
administrators with an opportunity to gather valuable information relative
to what others across the nation are doing to ensure college readiness,
increase student persistence and enhance overall institutional effectiveness.
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If you are unable to attend, please forward this email to any other administrator
or staff member that you believe would benefit from attending. <b>Please
note that there is a limited number of hotel rooms available to conference
attendees at $139.00 per night. These are quickly being filled so be sure
to secure a room asap as we expect to fill our allotment well before the
hotel deadline of April 7, 2010.</b> <b>New Orleans is experiencing some
phenomenal tourism trends so alternate lodging options will be limited.
</b> You can contact the hotel at 504-525-9444. Be sure to mention
that you are with the ACT GROUP. We are looking forward to seeing all past
attendees, and a significant number of new attendees, this spring in festive
"N'Awlins"!<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">PS: Please contact me directly if any of
you could possibly forward this message to our friends that are members
of GPACAC and the Oklahoma College Fair Coordinating group.Thanks. <br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Don Pitchford Ph.D.<br>
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Austin, Texas<br>
512 345-1949 (office)</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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Learn more and register for the 14th annual Post Secondary Conference for
Student Success<br>
http://act.org/cgi-bin/cal/cal.pl?CODE=5402 </font>
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