What a month! With 415 attendees representing 164 schools, the CEA & AMP Annual Convention was a complete success! Feedback on the meeting has been positive, focusing on the quality speakers, great networking and, of course, location: Las Vegas! With CEA & AMP Annual Convention behind us, don’t forget AACS Annual Convention & Expo is right around the corner.
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Registration and hotel reservations are now open for AACS Annual Convention & Expo: Together Toward Tomorrow, Nov. 4 – 7, 2016 in Orlando. Click here to register. Don't wait: This year's Annual Convention is going to be an amazing event with high-quality programming and access to the AACS Associate Members you want, and serious Disney fun! To learn more about booth registration, click here! Please feel free to contact Lisa Zarda, lisa@beautyschools.org; or Adam Nelson, adam@beautyschools.org should you have any questions.
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Modern Salon’s Annual Excellence in Education program recognizes outstanding achievements by beauty schools across the country. Hundreds of applications are submitted by individual and multi-unit schools in hopes of being acknowledged for ideas and best practices worth sharing.As the premiere awards program in our industry, AACS highly encourages you to apply. What do you have to lose? This is your opportunity to show your stuff and share your successes with your students.Modern Salon is taking applications through August 31. Winners will be announced at AACS’ Annual Convention & Expo in Orlando this November. Submit your application today!
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The second week of August finds only two state legislatures in session – California and New Jersey – as the National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL), a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the states, commonwealths and territories, is currently conducting its 2016 Legislative Summit in Chicago. As always, AACS will keep you apprised of the latest developments from across the country of interest to barbering and cosmetology schools.
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Sponsored by Great Clips on Aug. 18In 2016, 46 states convened a legislative session that produced approximately 300 bills of interest to cosmetology, barbering, esthetics and massage therapy schools.Will you be prepared for 2017 when all 50 state legislatures will convene? Join AACS State Relations Advisor, Brian Newman, for a webinar reviewing the key state public policy trends impacting AACS member schools on Thursday, Aug. 18 at 12 Noon (EDT). To register, please visit the link below:
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Esthetic students are encouraged to apply by October 17 for one of five BCL│Murad Scholarships. Each winner will receive a $2,250 tuition scholarship, a Murad product kit valued at $500 and the opportunity to learn from a Murad mentor. A judging panel comprised of renowned skincare authorities will evaluate applications and consider each applicant’s creativity, innovative perspective, passion for the esthetics industry and ability to communicate. Applicants are encouraged to demonstrate creativity and passion via a three-minute online video or inspiration board. Scholarship details and some ideas to jump-start the inspiration board ideation process may be viewed at
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Personal branding might sound like an unsavoury practice reserved for the gurus and ninjas of the marketing world. However, like social media itself, it’s not something you can opt out of today. You have a digital footprint and if you don’t take control of it, then others will. So how do you make it work for you?
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