Here's a sneak peek at the eye-catching badge design for the CEA & AMP Annual Convention. If you're attending, let the social world know by making it your profile picture and/or including it in your email address signature. Learn more about the event and register here. Early-bird registration closes JUNE 17.

 

Experience the most important beauty show of the year! Advance your career with the best in education with over 440 complimentary classes and 800 exhibiting companies.

 

The second week of May finds 21 state legislatures actively meeting and three more – Arkansas, Colorado and Missouri – scheduled to adjourn sine die before the end of the week. As always, AACS will keep you apprised of the latest developments from across the country of interest to barbering and cosmetology schools.

 

Your GRC team is determined to minimize the potential impact GE regulations could have upon your schools. Therefore, you knew we would ask for your assistance SEVERAL times over the coming months to help us with our multifaceted strategy. You all did an amazing job responding to our initial Call to Action. Thank you again!

However, we need you to respond to the one titled "Let’s Follow Up and Expand Our Efforts on GE." Your GRC Chairman, Greg Jones, initiated this last week on the listserve, so far the response has been marginal at best. We know you can do better!

 

The U.S. Department of Education intends to create Draft GE Completers Lists later this month and distribute those lists to institutions by June 1, 2016. To reduce the number of corrections that institutions must submit during the 45-day corrections period, we strongly encourage institutions to, no later than May 13, 2016, report to NSLDS any missing GE Program information and make any necessary corrections to information previously reported.

 

Beauty Changes Lives is more than a foundation offering scholarships and mentorships — it’s a philosophy shared by many in the beauty and wellness industry. Celebrity nail artist Fleury Rose, the Beauty Changes Lives Foundation, Milady – a part of Cengage Learning and CND donated talent, time, product and Spanish versions of the "Milady Standard Nail Technology" textbook to help women in one of Columbia’s poorest communities earn emotional and economic freedom through the gift of careers in the professional nail industry. Read all about the collaboration in the August issue of NAILS magazine.  

 

Throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks is no way to form a content strategy. Schools - like any brand or business - need to know who they are, who they're talking to, and what makes them so special. Read on to find the difference between tone and voice and how both should be a presence in your branding.

 

As you know, AACS offers many benefits for our members and one of the longest running is our ACE Grant program. We’ve been offering this benefit for more than 20 years. The ACE Grant is a marketing tool created to increase student enrollment. There is no money exchanged in the program. The ACE Grant is promoted by AACS through different mediums including the Internet, Salons, High School Counselors and Industry Partners.