<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span id="gmail-m_-2447750125752867819gmail-docs-internal-guid-f7a504d7-cd52-3bb6-e493-6d114cadc851"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear COPLAC Institutional Research Colleagues,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2017 COPLAC Annual Meeting will be </span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">22-24 June</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, hosted by Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. This year’s theme is </span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making the Case for Liberal Learning in and beyond the Classroom.</span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  At the Board’s request, the meeting will feature hands-on, in-depth workshops providing opportunities for participants to really dig into issues facing public liberal arts colleges and universities. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One of the two featured working groups at Mansfield will be: </span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Institutional Research and Predictive Analytics.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Potential working group topics include:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Refining the COPLAC Annual Data Profile </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Developing evidence-based common metrics that will help member institutions to better advocate for their individual campuses</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Identifying and refining comparative data that help to identify our common strength and highlight these in COPLAC’s branding work</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Working with Marketing and Advocacy professionals at our member institutions</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite you to join with your colleagues from other COPLAC campuses to discuss challenges, opportunities, tactics, and best practices. Working groups will report out in a plenary session at the end of the gathering.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration for the Annual Meeting will open later this spring; you will receive an email letting you know when the conference website is live – please save the date and share this information freely on your campus to any who might be interested in attending.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In the meantime, please take a moment to check out our new and improved </span><a href="http://www.coplac.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">website</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">! URL is the same, but the site has been revamped, streamlined, and updated to provide current info, phone and tablet responsiveness, and improved resources such as a new format for our undergraduate research journal, </span><a href="http://metamorphosis.coplac.org/index.php/metamorphosis" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Metamorphosis</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please let us know if you have any questions.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hope to see you in June!</span></p><br><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bill Spellman, Claire Bailey, and Emma Anderson</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia,serif">Bill Spellman </font></div><div><font face="georgia,serif">Director</font></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges</span></div><div><font face="georgia,serif">One University Heights<br>Asheville, NC 28804<br>(828) 350-4590</font></div>
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