The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) is proud to announce a new scholarship for Beacon, their annual student competition. Beacon is a renowned program designed to encourage beauty industry students to aggressively prepare for successful careers. Students who enter Beacon submit professional business portfolios, including items such as their resume and a marketing piece, which are judged on creativity and content. Students whose portfolios rank the highest are invited to attend PBA Beauty Week, hosted by Cosmoprof North America in Las Vegas in July.
Two Department of Education Gainful Employment Webinars — Coming Soon
 AACS has received advance notice of two U.S. Department of Education Gainful Employment webinars taking place later this month. The first, scheduled for Wednesday, November 18, 2015 will provide participants with new information and guidance on how to review the "Completer Lists." The second one is the following day, Thursday, November 19, 2015 , and will focus upon the Department's new Data Challenges and Appeals Solution system. In light of the Department's presentations, AACS will not host our own GE 2.0 webinars this month, but will resume them in mid-December after participating in the Department's two November webinars and attending the Department's FSA Conference, December 1-4. Please stay tuned. More information to come.
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Read the newest weekly report of key state legislative and regulatory developments of interest to AACS members and visit AACS’ Bill tracking Portal. Contact Brian Newman by email or phone at (202) 491-5254 with any comments or questions.
Associate Member Elected to AACS Board of Directors
 Congratulations to Associate Member, Teresa Lewis, who was elected to serve on the AACS Board of Directors (2015- 2017) by a vote during the AACS Annual Convention & Expo. Teresa Lewis is a licensed nail technology instructor and holds a Bachelor of Arts in accounting from Monmouth College. She has represented OPI for over 17 years and is now owner and CEO of YourNewSchool. YourNewSchool is a beauty school resource company which sources the best products, technologies and services so that our school clients don’t have to!
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10 MUD Make-up Scholarships Debut in 2016
 Beauty Changes Lives announced its first professional makeup scholarship during the American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS) Annual Convention & Expo in Phoenix, October 23-26. The BCL | MUD Make-up Scholarship will award 10 $2,500 scholarships to students enrolled in cosmetology or esthetics programs. Five spring and five fall scholarships will be offered to expand students’ knowledge of makeup artistry. The application window opens February 22, 2016.
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Facebook, Twitter and the death of the link
If you’re of a certain age, the web has a single thing at its core, and that is the hyperlink — those blue links that connect one page to another, creating a kind of interlocking mesh of URLs that encircles the globe. But if you’re someone who lives on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, links don’t matter nearly as much because you hardly ever see them, and even if you do, you probably never click on them. The hyperlink has been dying for a while now, but Facebook’s Instant Articles and Twitter Moments are accelerating its demise. Learn more...
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The Scientific Reason Your Employees Value Opinions Over Facts
Even in a data-obsessed era, your business is ultimately driven by human opinions. There's a scientific reason for this. And it goes beyond the obvious reminder that sustaining an analytics advantage requires talented employees who'll ask the right questions, make the correct decisions, and persuade their colleagues to come along for the ride. The reason is that people, on the whole, favor the laziness of opinion over the rigor of scientific study. Learn more...
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