Book Your Hotel for CEA and Experience Sonoran Desert Luxury
Learn, grow and connect at the CEA Annual Convention & Expo July 24-27 at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix Arizona. Book your hotel room by July 2, 2015 online or by calling 800-835-6206. This AAA 4-Diamond resort spans 316 acres in the beautiful Sonoran Desert. If you are interested in sharing a room or a cab, join our CEA Facebook event to make arrangements with other educators attending CEA.

 

VAWA Compliance Webinar Slides and Recording
AACS held a webinar on June 25 regarding Title IV institution compliance requirements imposed by changes made to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) and pursuant to the Final Rule effective July 1, 2015. If you missed the training, listen to the recording and view the presentation slides at your convenience.

 

Considerations for Employers After Supreme Court's Ruling Requiring All States Recognize Same-Sex Marriage
In Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in a 5-4 opinion, that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution requires that all states recognize license marriages between two people of the same sex and recognize a marriage between people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out of state. The social implications of the Court’s opinion are significant; however, the opinion may also impact, directly and indirectly, employers’ employment practices and employee benefit plans.

 

Given today's July 1, 2015 effective date of implementation for various regulations (GE 2.0, State Authorization, and Violence Against Women Act) your GRC wanted to take a brief moment to give you the latest update we have on each topic, and provide you with the clearest guidance that we have at the present time.

 

Get Ready for BCL's Newest Scholarship Program Debuting July 13
Get ready, get set, apply! A first-of-its-kind Beauty Changes Lives scholarship will be announced on Sunday July 12, during Cosmoprof North America 2015. Not going to Cosmoprof? No worries! Details on this exciting new scholarship –will be available at beautychangeslives.org on Monday, July 13.

 

Top 100 Media Monitoring Tools
If you want to know what people are saying and posting about your school, program or product, consider utilizing a media monitoring tool. When it comes to media monitoring and analytics, there are hundreds of options available. Some are paid services and others are free. Check out this list of 100 media monitoring tools and find one that works best for your school or business.

 

Seven Tips for Giving Feedback
Giving good feedback is both challenging and essential. While it's obvious that your staff can't improve unless they know what they could be doing better, it's just as easy to see that telling people how they're coming up short is inherently unpleasant. Giving good feedback is a key management competency. Check out these seven tips for giving and receiving feedback.