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Quick-Start Guide to Navigate Your Enrollment

Sunday, November 9, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Horseshoe Las Vegas

Ticket Required: ̽»¨Â¥ Members: $199 | Nonmembers: $219

Gain clarity and control over your admissions cycle in this practical half-day workshop. Learn how to map your enrollment timeline, set up key performance indicators, and establish a smart reporting rhythm. Designed for new and transitioning enrollment professionals, this session will help you replace overwhelm with confidence and give you the tools to start strong—and stay focused—all cycle long.

Presenters:
Brent Gage, University of Iowa
Greg Forbes, Iowa State University
Kate Ralston, University of Iowa

SEM at Tribal Colleges and Universities: Cultivating Native Student Success Admissions, Registrars and Enrollment Community of Practice

Sunday, November 9, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Horseshoe Las Vegas

This is a closed session for Cultivating Native Student Success TCU staff.

This interactive half-day preconference will serve as a knowledge exchange for tribal college and university (TCU) admissions, registrars and enrollment managers. As a community of practice in the American Indian College Fund Cultivating Native Student Success initiative, participants will engage in professional learning and practices specific to TCU institutional SEM planning grounded in their cultural values and missions. The group will also discuss Native student and TCU enrollment data to drive efforts at their respective colleges and discuss SEM committee engagement and participation.

Presenters:
Jonathan Breaker, TCU Student Success Program Officer, American Indian College Fund
Cedric Howard, ̽»¨Â¥ Consulting

AIRC Fundamentals of International Enrollment Management

Sunday, November 9, 2025, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Horseshoe Las Vegas

Ticket Required: ̽»¨Â¥ Members: $199 | Nonmembers: $219

How do your SEM skills and knowledge apply to international students, and how do you need to adapt to serve international audiences? Join ̽»¨Â¥ strategic partner, AIRC: The Association of International Enrollment Management, for this introduction to IEM. We will cover student recruitment markets, methods, and partnerships; global education systems, including the evaluation of international academic credentials; English language proficiency requirements and measures; the basics of student visas, and more.

Consider supplementing your AIRC Fundamentals of International Enrollment Management workshop experience by adding the International Institute to your registration.

Presenters:
Clay Harmon, Executive Director, AIRC
Rachael Lamson, Director of Membership and Sponsorships, AIRC
Robert Summers, Board President, AIRC
Jon Weller, Board Member, AIRC

TCU and HBCU Peer Learning Exchange

Sunday, November 9, 2025, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Horseshoe Las Vegas

Ticket Required: ̽»¨Â¥ Members: $199 | Nonmembers: $219

Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions with dual missions, founded on their cultural values. This session provides an opportunity for TCU and HBCU staff participants to discuss the current landscape pertaining to federal funding and financial aid, and how this affects enrollment. Through facilitated activities, attendees will actively engage about their successes, challenges, stories and experiences regarding the unique experiences students encounter at their respective institutions.

Leading Through SEM

Sunday, November 9, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Horseshoe Las Vegas

Ticket Required: ̽»¨Â¥ Member: $399 | Nonmember: $438

This full-day workshop is tailored to campus leaders and is applicable to those with or without a strategic enrollment management (SEM) plan. Through the application of best practices derived from case studies, and analysis of enrollment trends, this interactive session will explore how to: keep your campus engaged in SEM planning; reduce planning fatigue; build a plan to be nimble and agile; sustain SEM energy throughout the life of the plan; and create effective SEM teams to build institutional capacity leading to enrollment health and improved learner success.

Presenters:
Tammy Aagard, Managing Consultant, ̽»¨Â¥
Jody Gordon, Managing Consultant, ̽»¨Â¥

̽»¨Â¥ International Institute

Saturday, November 8, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. & Sunday, November 9, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Horseshoe Las Vegas

Ticket Required: ̽»¨Â¥ Member: $899 | Nonmember: $949

Join the ̽»¨Â¥ International Institute, where you will learn strategies and best practices in international credential evaluation. From undergraduate admissions to graduate admissions, this workshop will present strategies for success in international admissions and teach you the basics of international credential evaluation methodology, including educational system models and benchmarks, researching the status of foreign institutions, working with foreign academic records, the use of official and reliable resources, fraud awareness, approaches to applying institution policies to make admissions decisions and applicable transfer credit. The workshop is intended for colleagues who are new to international admissions or would like a refresher in this area, and the material discussed will be applicable to both undergraduate and graduate admissions environments.

Consider supplementing your International Institute experience by adding the AIRC Fundamentals of International Enrollment Management workshop to your registration.

Presenters:
Julia Funaki, ̽»¨Â¥
David Mihalyi, ̽»¨Â¥