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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Greetings from ACT:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We hope this email finds you all doing
well and experiencing success with meeting enrollment objectives on your
respective campuses. As you likely know, ACT is recognized in the
higher education arena for its solutions relative to assisting with recruitment,
placement and retention. For the past fifty years ACT research and solutions
have helped guide higher education leaders in making informed decisions
that have helped students successfully "get in, get through, and get
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Simply put, the proper use of ACT research
and solutions can lead to greater success with strategies associated with
recruitment, advising, placement, and in measuring learning outcomes. For
this purpose, ACT has designed a series of FREE one day drive-in workshops
to offer to New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana enrollment management,
student services, institutional research, testing , retention and
admission professionals. We have targeted Albuquerque, Baton Rouge, Oklahoma
City and Little Rock as hosting cities as we feel it will logistically
best serve our clients from all areas of your states. Our hopes are that
professionals from your schools , that may have been restricted to travel
to other conferences , will recognize the value and ease of attending these
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We plan to begin these workshops at 10:00 and finish by 2:00 each day thus
providing most guests with an opportunity to only be away from their offices
one day. ACT will provide a catered luncheon at each workshop. ACT
intends to secure a representative from each of your state's Higher Education
Departments to provide an introduction and state specific P-20 update.
Information relative to the increasing number of ACT test takers and how
this may effect your state's applicant pool will be featured. We also plan
to secure a local speaker at each workshop to share a "best
practice" associated with an EM related strategy. <br>
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You can view the workshop agenda and register to attend one of the workshops
at the following link: </font><a href=http://www.act.org/southwest/compass_forums.html><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://www.act.org/southwest/compass_forums.html
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We hope that you find these workshop offerings a valuable, convenient professional
development opportunity and are able to send a team to join us this spring.
Thank you for all that you do for your students as we appreciate and value
our continued partnership with our counterparts in higher education. <br>
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<p><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Don Pitchford PhD<br>
Higher Education Consultant<br>
Austin, Texas</font><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u><br>
</u></font><a href=mailto:Don.Pitchford@act.org><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>Don.Pitchford@act.org</u></font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
512.320.1850</font>
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