American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
Project Title
For the promotion of holistic admission practices that increase admission of students of color, students from low-income households, and other historically underrepresented groups
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) is an association of more than 11,000 higher education professionals representing approximately 2,600 institutions. Its mission is to provide professional development, guidelines, and voluntary standards regarding the best practices in admissions, enrollment management, administrative IT, and student services. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many colleges and universities opted to go test-optional in their admissions practices creating a crisis that exacerbated, rather than address, race and income inequality in college admissions. With Corporation support, AACRAO launched the first convening of these institutions, seeking to highlight the challenge and stimulate proactive approaches to the problem. With continued Corporation support, AACRAO will launch the next phase of this work, providing necessary resources and expertise to institutions attempting to understand and implement holistic/equity admissions.
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Project Title
For the creation and promotion of holistic admission practices that increase admission of students of color, and students from low-income households and other historically underrepresented groups
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), is a non-profit, voluntary, professional association of more than 11,000 higher education professionals representing approximately 2,600 institutions. Its mission is to provide professional development, guidelines, and voluntary standards regarding the best practices in admissions, enrollment management, administrative IT, and student services. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, many colleges and universities opted to go test-optional in their admissions practices. AACRAO seeks to bring together a diverse set of K12 and higher education stakeholders to collaborate on research-based standards for holistic admissions practices that can be customized for individual institutions. Participants will collaborate to raise awareness, educate, create guidelines, train, and prepare the higher education and K-12 sectors, with a focus including a diverse set of higher education institutions including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs),and Tribal Colleges. Corporation support will launch the first stakeholder convening.