FACRAO: the Florida Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

Since 1955, the Florida Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers has provided Florida’s enrollment professionals with a forum to address issues affecting your institutions and your profession. At the core of FACRAO’s mission is our commitment to promote the advancement of higher education in its fullest and broadest implications.

Today, we express this commitment through our professional development programs. FACRAO facilitates cost-effective professional development and networking opportunities via participation in our Executive Committee or other committees, program development, professional conference session presentations, and attendance at our annual meetings. Our learning sessions cover topics ranging from FERPA to new technologies in recruitment. By maintaining close contact with our membership, we ensure that our professional development programs are relevant to you, your front-line service staff and your departmental leadership.

 The Florida Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers is a non-profit organization whose purposes are to:

• provide a forum for the interchange of information, ideas, and problems of common interest among our member institutions
• contribute to the advancement of higher education in its fullest and broadest implications
• foster the spirit of unity and cooperation among its members
• function as a unifying and coordinating agency among the Florida’s admissions officers and registrars; and
• serve as a liaison to our national organization, through our partnership with AACRAO, The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Visit the program for the 2021 Higher Education Summit

• Monday, June 7 – Tuesday, June 8, 2021, "Virtual Reality," FACRAO's online conference - click here to access the program agenda and annual summit details

• FREE Webinar for members; The Finishing Touch: Bringing Hospitality into Higher Education; Wednesday, September 15th at 1:30pm – Registration Open Now 
  Join your counterparts Stephanie Hospodar, Regional Associate Director of Admission-South Atlantic at Bryant University and Peyton Spear, Admissions Counselor at Ole Miss. At this session, they will talk about how small touches of hospitality and service excellence can make for big wins in creating memorable experiences and meaningful connections with those that we serve in our work in higher education. Stephanie and Peyton will share how their experiences as service industry employees has shaped how they approach service in higher education and provide some examples to help you in brainstorming taking the service you provide to the next level.

• FREE Webinar for members; Conquering the Last Frontier: What Can a Bicycle Ride Across the 49th State Teach You About Motivation and the Resilience of the Human Spirit?;  Tuesday, November 9th at 1:30pm – Registration Open Now 
  Join speaker Dale Amburgey, Ed.D., Assistant Director of Institutional Research at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, as he discusses how six days of pedaling across Alaska helped him get out of his head and get into gear by kick starting a life-altering mindset shift that allowed him to conquer the Last Frontier.

• 13th Annual Higher Education Summit: Sunday, June 5 – Thursday, June 9, 2022, at the beachside Plaza Hotel & Resort, in Daytona Beach

• 14th Annual Higher Education Summit: Sunday, June 4 - Thursday, June 8, 2023, at the beautiful Florida Hotel and Conference Center, in Orlando