While many beauty-related shows focus on live demos and product knowledge, CEA is unique and tailored to give educators skills they need in the classroom. This year’s convention will include sessions on motivation, methodology and technical training. We’ll also go over teaching tech-addicted millennials and engaging your students through social media.

Don’t forget your Admissions and Marketing staff! This year we’re bringing back our popular AMP track, focusing on increasing recruitment, design of marketing materials, and digital advertising.

Video is dominating social media marketing. In fact, experts predict video will account for 80 percent of global internet traffic by 2019. So now is the best time to master the medium.

Thanks to easy and free video creation tools, you don’t need a big budget, professional equipment, or a film making degree to make compelling videos for your brand. But since each social network comes with its own guidelines and unique audiences, you'll need an understanding of what kind of content is effective on each network.

HubSpot breaks down what performs best on four of the top networks: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, so you can easily create videos that truly shine no matter where you share them. 

Congratulations to 15 winners of the BCL│CND Master Scholarship – including three nail educators! Each winner will be reimbursed up to $1,000 toward tuition, open stock product, and/or travel (where applicable) for advanced nail education. Winners may choose any combination of the following CND courses: Master Painter, Master Sculptor or Master Architect, or all three for Grandmaster Status. 

Oluwaseyi Aladeselu, Chicago, IL

Zadiah Ballard, Newark NJ

Samantha Beall, Manhattan KS (Bellus Academy, educator!)

Morgan Castro, Ventura, CA

Danielle DeSantis, Tucson, AZ 

Kimberly Forga, Evansville, IN

Xiomara Hernandez, Chicago, IL

Shante Herron, Indianapolis, IN

Lanessa Hubbard, Westfield, IN

Yvonne Huff, Lakeside, CA

Courtney Russell, Tonawanda, NY (Salon Professional Academy – Buffalo, educator!)

Jenna Scott, Dysart, IA 

Georgia Thornburg, Moberly, MO 

Jodi Warran, Titusville FL (Salon Professional Academy – Melbourne, educator!)

Tina Zavala, Louisville, KY

Earlier this week, AACS and the higher education community gained access to two U.S. Department of Education documents scheduled to be published in the Federal Register this Friday, June 16, 2017.

The first of the referenced documents provides notice of the Department's intent to host two public hearings in July in advance of a series of Federal Negotiated Rulemaking sessions. The second document announces a delay in implementation of a considerable number of regulations, most notably all of the regulations related to the Borrower Defense to Repayment regulations.

AACS realizes that this favorable information also comes with a considerable number of new questions which your GRC is already seeking additional guidance on from our sources within the Department, on Capitol Hill, and the higher education community. Learn more about these notices and read them in full. 

The 85th Texas Legislature concluded its 140-day biennial regular legislative session when it adjourned on Memorial Day after passing several bills that modify the cosmetology regulations in Texas.  The legislature did not pass any bills that reduced the number of clock hours required for cosmetology licensure. Texas remains a 1500 clock hour state.

Among the cosmetology issues that received final legislative approval and are now in the hands of Governor Greg Abbott for signature into law are deregulation of threading, deregulation of shampooing, deregulation of square footage requirements and more. 

Read the full summary of this legislation in this week’s AACS State Relations Update.

Not everything is glitz and glam in the world of makeup! Special FX is a needed skill for any makeup artist and students love learning these exciting techniques. This session will teach you how to make blood, basic wounds and burns. You’ll get to try out what you learn on a fellow attendee, so join in on the fun and get the knowledge you need to take it back to the classroom!

Presented by Darren Fleming; Sponsored by: Associated Skin Care Professionals.

Get to Las Vegas a little early and join us for some amazing hands-on, technical education! Pivot Point International and Farouk Systems will be hosting two separate workshops for those of you that want to get your hands in some hair before the convention starts.

Space is limited, and registration to both the workshop and CEA & AMP Annual Convention is required. Reserve your spot today!

Join Pivot Point International’s Education Team, Jason Russell and Daniel Dunworth in an exploration of high fashion techniques that will leave your students breathless. Pivot Point’s collection, Salonability Long Hair delivers a bold approach to reinventing vintage beauties into modern marvels. Expect to enhance your skill level and add numerous trend techniques to your students’ tool box as we guide you through Salonability’s most fashion forward designs. Click here to learn more and register.

Hands-on workshop that will showcase simple techniques that your students can ROCK out behind the chair. He will also share his business knowledge that surpasses others on how to be truly successful in the beauty industry. Come join this festive environment with Farouk Systems’ International Global Artist, Joe Anthony Pena! Click here to learn more and register. 

AACS Online Training Center offers a wide variety of professional development opportunities for your faculty, staff and management. And successful completion of each online course provides credit toward the Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) certification.