USC Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice Certificate Program →

USC Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice is in the late stage of recruitment for their certificate program in leadership in enrollment management. The application deadline is August 31. This is an interesting take on how to meet the needs for enrollment management and the future leaders. The program has some heavy hitters in admissions and financial aid from around the country and an interesting take on the content areas.

This is also very different take on the NASFAA certification program/university.

One of the great things about this field is that it continues to develop a theory base for enrollment management. Great times.

Enrollment Leadership Academy Nomination ♦

I am very proud and honored to annouce that I was nominated and selected for the College Board’s 2012–13 Enrollment Leadership Academy for their western region. The program is a small selective cohort of financial aid and admission professionals who will come together on a monthly basis over the next year for professional development activities and trainings. Part of the program is attending the College Board’s National Forum in Miami during October and the Western Regional Forum in San Diego next February.

On a separate, but similar, note, I will also be presenting about the effect of the design of financial aid process of student success through the process at the College Board’s Western Regional Forum. Doing professional development while being profesional developed. I will have more details in late fall about the presentation.

I am really looking forward to working with this cohort of talented and hardworking financial aid and admission professional over the next year and my thank you to the College Board Western Regional Office for their investment.

A Caption and Cross-Reference Guide

Another useful article by Aleh Cherp over at Academic workflows on Mac.

When I am doing academic writing bound for print, it always ends up finally in Word. Much like a final resting place. I wish it was not the case, but it currently has to be. In most academic work that I write there are numerous figures and tables that all have to be in the right place at the right time. While you can try to piece together captions and cross-references through many youtube videos, he puts it all in one place, in a clear guide.

His final point:

Transferring texts from Scrivener and then adding automatic captions and cross-references is certainly tedious so I am always open to an alternative solution for caption management.

While I do not have an alternative solution to this, a simple hack I use is a placeholder in my captions and text. The placeholder I use is "Table X" or "Figure Y". When the final text is placed in Word, I can do a simple find and update those with the proper caption or cross reference. While it still requires a good deal of manual work, they are at least easier to find.

Markdown certainly does not have this and I do not know of it in MultiMarkdown, but captions and cross-reference for the most part are things of paper and not the internet.