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Intl Assoc for College Admission Counseling Annual Conference

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Jul 14 – Jul 17 all-day

www.internationalacac.org

TAICEP Webinar Series: Evaluating International Professional Degrees

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Jul 22 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Description: Take a break from the summer heat! Cool off with a virtual gathering to learn how professional degrees differ from academic degrees, and discover what your TAICEP colleagues are thinking about the challenges involved in evaluating professional degrees for the international recognition and admissions environments. This refreshing break features sample credentials in law and dentistry and the opportunity to give your input virtually on successful evaluation approaches. Everybody into the credential evaluation pool!

Presented by:

Margaret Wenger, Senior Director of Evaluation, Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. Meg has worked at ECE, a non-profit credential evaluation agency, since 1990. As Senior Director of Evaluation, Meg leads evaluation policy development, new evaluator training, and coordinates quality assurance efforts. She regularly presents at international conferences as well as contributing to publications in the field. She serves as chair of the Digital Student Data Task Force of TAICEP, as well as co-chairing the Groningen Declaration Network Task Force on Verification Policies and Best Practices.

Ann Koenig, International Associate Director, AACRAO. Ann has been with AACRAO since 2002. Her career path spans 30+ years, including foreign credential evaluation in professional evaluation services, campus-based work in international admissions, student records management, academic advising and transfer credit evaluation in Wisconsin, California and Germany. Ann’s country education system research, along with her writing on best practice in international admissions, document review and fraud awareness, have been published by AACRAO and NAFSA. She has been an active leader and trainer in professional development activities sponsored by AACRAO, NAFSA NAGAP, EAIE, TAICEP and other organizations in the U.S. and Europe.

Transcript Research Webinar: World Tour of Programmatic Accreditation

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Sep 15 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Transcript Research is pleased to offer a brand new webinar on programmatic accreditation and how critical that is for non-US education. Join us on September 15, 2020, 10 AM CST by registering here: https://bit.ly/2Y1UVMm

In the US, programmatic accreditation ensures that a specific program being offered at an institution will meet certain standards for the field. This is especially important in fields such as nursing or engineering for licensure or employment but is not required for the majority of programs. Generally speaking, for US study, it’s the institution itself that faces the most scrutiny for students who want to study or work in other countries.

In some countries, however, government recognition of an institution and accreditation of a program are *both* required in order for a degree to be fully recognized. To make things even more exciting, it is common for institutions to offer both: some programs that are accredited & fall under the auspices of the Ministry of Education or other higher education authority and some programs that are aimed at those wanting an employment qualification or who aren’t aware of that institutions might offer programs that don’t fit within the legally recognized degree system.

These non-official, non-recognized proprietary programs do not provide access to further education at public higher education institutions or employment in government jobs, but they may have validity for employment in the private sector. Proprietary programs often have more flexible entrance requirements or a shorter duration than recognized & accredited programs. They are also often advertised to international students rather than local graduates. Sometimes these proprietary, institution-specific programs are known by special names such as Titulo Propio or Lato Sensu, but in other cases, identifying validated and non-validated programs requires serious research.

Join us on a short trip around the world looking at a dozen countries where the program itself (not just the institution) needs to be accredited in order to be considered comparable to regional accreditation. We’ll work together to examine the resources and tools needed to identify programmatic accreditation.

We hope to see you then! Register now: https://bit.ly/2Y1UVMm

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Peggy Bell Hendrickson
Director, Transcript Research

Working toward the international exchange of people and ideas

www.transcriptresearch.com

TAICEP’s Hall of Acclaim 2020 Nominations Due

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Sep 22 all-day

TAICEP 6th Annual Conference – Glasgow, Scotland @ Glasgow Marriott

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Oct 5 @ 8:00 am – Oct 8 @ 1:00 pm

Save the dates! More to come!

Evaluating and Attracting Pearson BTEC & Pearson Edexcel Students

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Oct 28 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

FREE WEBINAR | 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

Join this session for a closer look at Pearson BTEC and Pearson Edexcel entry credentials and the latest updates to our curriculum. We will help you equate and verify student achievement fairly and review our syllabi and standards for credit purposes. Learn how Pearson can support you to publicize your institutions and find out examples of where students already successfully enroll at university with Pearson qualifications. Attendees will also be invited to share their personal experiences of Pearson qualifications to enrich the discussion.

https://www.aacrao.org/events-training/event/2020/10/28/default-calendar/evaluating-and-attracting-pearson-btec-pearson-edexcel-students

AACRAO/TAICEP Webinar: International Admissions Roundtable: Efficiency, Process, and Credential Evaluation – A Discussion of What Works

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Nov 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Join your colleagues from the U.S. and around the globe for a lively discussion on the international admissions office. Presenters will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various models. Are your admissions centralized? Do you have separate offices for undergraduate, graduate, and international? How does your institution handle credential evaluation? Is this working for you? Compare notes with your peers on how to craft an efficient and student-friendly experience. Register HERE!

TAYD Series: Using the Internet Archive Part 1 Beginners Session

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Jan 26 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Please join us on January 26th and 27th for our two-part free TAYD webinar series on using the Internet Archive with an emphasis on the Wayback Machine! Veteran credentials evaluators Peggy Hendrickson and Shelby Cearley will be sharing some of their favorite tips and tricks for using the Wayback Machine to assist with evaluation work. We’ll have two separate webinars aimed at beginner and intermediate users of the Internet Archive.

As part of the introductory session, we’ll show you some basic steps on how to use the Wayback Machine to look up historical information from institutions like degree plans, catalogs, syllabi, entry requirements, grading scales, program standard duration, and more to ensure you are using time-appropriate information on your evaluation assessments.

Our intermediate session will focus on more complex strategies for searching for these items as well as some different ways of searching for old websites. We will get familiar with using the Internet Archive’s Boolean operators, learn some history about this not-for-profit organization, and learn how we can save information individually or institutionally to the Internet Archive. In addition, we’ll look at the Internet Archive’s library to show you some of the relevant publications useful for credentials evaluations.

Both sessions will be focused on having plenty of time for attendees to practice the strategies via a scavenger hunt! Please come ready to search and share your best ideas! Each session will last from 60-75 minutes. This webinar series is open to TAICEP members and non-members.

To register for Part I Beginners Session on January 26, 2021, at 11 am (Eastern), click HERE.

TAICEP has planned three additional TAYD series to be held in the first part of the year, and the topics are of great use for our profession. Stay tuned!

TAYD Series: Using the Internet Archive Part 2 Intermediate Session

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Jan 27 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Please join us on January 26th and 27th for our two-part free TAYD webinar series on using the Internet Archive with an emphasis on the Wayback Machine! Veteran credentials evaluators Peggy Hendrickson and Shelby Cearley will be sharing some of their favorite tips and tricks for using the Wayback Machine to assist with evaluation work. We’ll have two separate webinars aimed at beginner and intermediate users of the Internet Archive.

As part of the introductory session, we’ll show you some basic steps on how to use the Wayback Machine to look up historical information from institutions like degree plans, catalogs, syllabi, entry requirements, grading scales, program standard duration, and more to ensure you are using time-appropriate information on your evaluation assessments.

Our intermediate session will focus on more complex strategies for searching for these items as well as some different ways of searching for old websites. We will get familiar with using the Internet Archive’s Boolean operators, learn some history about this not-for-profit organization, and learn how we can save information individually or institutionally to the Internet Archive. In addition, we’ll look at the Internet Archive’s library to show you some of the relevant publications useful for credentials evaluations.

Both sessions will be focused on having plenty of time for attendees to practice the strategies via a scavenger hunt! Please come ready to search and share your best ideas! Each session will last from 60-75 minutes. This webinar series is open to TAICEP members and non-members.

To register for Part II Intermediate Session on January 27, 2021, at 11 am (Eastern), click HERE.

TAICEP has planned three additional TAYD series to be held in the first part of the year, and the topics are of great use for our profession. Stay tuned!

Pacific Assoc for Intl Ed Annual Conference

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Mar 22 – Mar 26 all-day

www.apaie.org