Annual Meeting Program

Wednesday, November 14
1:00 pm - 4:30pm Registration Open

1:00 pm - 4:30pm Exhibitor Setup

2:30 pm - 3:30pm First-Time Attendees Session

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm TACRAO Networking Social

4:45 pm - 6:00pm Opening Session, Ronnie Chandler, Project Grad

6:30 pm Buses Depart for Big Event

7:00 pm Dinner and Big Event

Thursday, November 15
7:30 am Registration Open

7:30 am - 4:30 pm Exhibitor Displays Open

7:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:00 am - 8:45 am “Morning Motivation” Jack Minor, AACRAO Representative

9:00 am - 9:45 am Session 1 Options

1.1 TBA
1.2 School Panel: Maximize ROI in your Transcript Processes

Majors Matter: How to connect the majors to career pathways early? Tiger
1.3 Momentum Tour: Creating, Connecting, & Conceptualizing the College Pathway
to Success

1.4 TN STRONG ACT - Tuition Reimbursement for TN National Guard Members

1.5 Admissions... Counselor?

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Session 2 Options
10:00 am - 10:45 am
2.1 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Becoming a New Manager

2.2 Turn the Diploma from Headaches to Opportunity for You and Your Graduates

Keeping Track of Moving Targets: Strategies for Accurate Tracking of Adult and
2.3 Graduate Applicants

2.4 Touchy Tennessee: Welcoming the LGBTQIA community on your campus

2.5 Registrar Roundtable

11:00 am - 1:00 pm Luncheon/Business Meeting

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm Session 3 Options

3.1 TBA
The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into
3.2 the Extraordinary

Certified Electronic Diplomas and Paper Diplomas, when paper and technology
3.3 collide!

Stressed Out Freshmen: Developing Recruitment Messaging to Manage Anxiety

3.4 Experienced by Incoming Freshmen

3.5 New Campus. New Ideas.

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Session 4 Options

4.1 Breaking the Mold: A Creative Accepted Student Visit Day to Increase Yield

4.2 Make It Count: A User's Guide to Implementing Course Program of Study (CPoS)

4.3 Leader with a Servant Heart

4.4 Theoretically Speaking

What's new with AP? Come learn about AP Computer Science Principles and AP
4.5 Capstone!

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break (Lite Snack Provided)

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Session 5 Options

5.1 Student Leaders: Recruitment's Best Kept Secret

5.2 Reconnecting The Gap: A bridge program for adults returning to the classroom

5.3 In Search of a Cure: Eliminating Employee Turnover and Managing Change

5.4 Catalog and Curriculum Management: Best Practices and New Technologies

5.5 Optimizing Student Progression: Why Personalization is Key for Completion

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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Session 6 Options
6.1 Community College Recruiting: A Workshop

6.2 Supporting Seamless Transitions with Electronic Transcripts

6.3 Managing from the Middle - the Mission, the Methods and the Motivation

Building Bridges: How Cross-Training Faculty/Staff Helps Students Transition to

6.4 College

6.5 Admissions Processing Roundtable

5:00 pm Evening on Your Own

6:30 pm Past President’s Dinner

Friday, November 16
7:45 am - 8:30am Breakfast Buffet

8:30 am - 9:30 am Keynote Speaker, Krissy DeAlejandro, TN Acheives

9:45 am - 10:15 am Session 7 Options

In our Element: Collaboration between Financial Aid and Admissions makes for
7.1 better chemistry for TN Reconnect

Reverse Transfer and Your Institution: Partnering to Improve Transfer Student

7.2 Success

7.3 Admission Counselor Roundtable

7.4 TACRAO Wants YOU!

7.5 Fresh Prince of Orientation

10:30 am - 11:00 am Session 8 Options

8.1 Sales Tools for College Reps

8.2 Just Ask – Building a Transfer Community

8.3 TBA

8.4 TICUA Roundtable

8.5 What is TN FAFSA Frenzy

Closing Session
11:00 am - 11:30am
2019 Annual Meeting Reveal & Door Prizes