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Greetings from ACT, <br>
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The ACT Southwest regional staff is excited to invite you to join us this
year in festive San Antonio! This email serves as first notification
to register (if you have yet to do so) to attend the 15th Annual
ACT Southwest Region Conference on College Readiness and Success. This
year's conference will be held at the historic </font><a href=http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanAntonioLaMansionDelRio.aspx><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">La
Mansion Del Rio</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> located
directly on the famous San Antonio Riverwalk. The conference is uniquely
scheduled to begin the afternoon of Wednesday April 6th and conclude after
Friday morning brunch on April 8th. The 15th annual conference requires
only a two night stay and coincides with the internationally recognized
Fiesta San Antonio cultural celebration. More information about this popular
event can be found here: </font><a href="http://www.fiesta-sa.org/"><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">Fiesta</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This informative ACT 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
one of the best "cultural festivals" in the world. As a non for
profit partner of higher education, ACT is sensitive to budget constraints
that many are experiencing. Thus, we are able to offer this conference
at a very low cost of $125.00 per person for early registrants. This cost
includes four excellent meals. Conference and on-line registration information
is available </font><a href="http://www.act.org/cgi-bin/cal/cal.pl?CODE=5758"></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">:
</font><a href="http://www.act.org/cgi-bin/cal/cal.pl?CODE=5758"><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">Conference
Registration</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> <br>
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The 15th Annual ACT Southwest Conference will provide post secondary 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 post secondary 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 is included that will focus on strategic enrollment management
strategies associated with recruitment and retention. Much 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. This conference has grown in attendance each year as it
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. <br>
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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 $149.00 per night. These will quickly fill so be sure
to secure a room asap as we again expect to fill our allotment before
the hotel registration deadline of March 14th.</b> <b>San Antonio experiences
some phenomenal tourism trends during Fiesta week so alternate lodging
options will be limited. </b> You can contact the hotel at 210-518-1000
to rsvp and mention the ACT GROUP rate. Or simply click on this link to
register on-line </font><a href=http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanAntonioLaMansionDelRio/MeetingFacilities/15thAnnualACTPostsecondaryConference4.aspx><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">La
Mansion Del Rio</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> . We are
looking forward to seeing all past attendees, and a significant number
of new attendees, this spring in festive San Antonio. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Don Pitchford Ph.D.<br>
ACT Southwest Region<br>
512 345-1949 (office)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mark the dates for the 2011 ACT Post
Secondary Student Success Conference<br>
April 6-8 La Mansion Del Rio San Antonio Texas</font></div>