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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">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 a reminder 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="Arial"><u>La
Mansion Del Rio</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial"> 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="Arial"><u>Fiesta</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial">
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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 $150.00 per person. This cost
includes four excellent meals. The conference agenda can be viewed by clicking
on the registration link at this website : </font><a href="http://www.act.org/cgi-bin/cal/cal.pl?CODE=5763"><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>Conference
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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 "recharge"
after a long winter and 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 are quickly filling so be sure
to secure a room asap as we expect to fill our allotment before the hotel
registration deadline of March 14th (one month away!).</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>
<br><a href=http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanAntonioLaMansionDelRio/MeetingFacilities/15thAnnualACTPostsecondaryConference4.aspx><font size=2 color=blue face="Arial"><u>La
Mansion Del Rio</u></font></a><font size=2 face="Arial"> . We are
looking forward to seeing all past attendees, and a significant number
of new attendees, this spring in festive San Antonio. </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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<p><font size=3>Don Pitchford PhD<br>
Higher Education Consultant<br>
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