Scott Argo elected president of the Georgia Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
Scott Argo, assistant director of admissions at ASU, has been elected president of the Georgia Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (GACRAO) for 2012-2013. Argo was chosen at the Association’s 59th annual meeting held at the Savannah Riverfront Marriott, Oct. 6–9.
Argo has held various positions on the executive committee since 2008. He also was the 2007 recipient of GACRAO’s Outstanding New Professional Award. He is involved with both the Southern Association and American Associations of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, the Southern Association of College Admission Counseling, and the Georgia Education Articulation Committee. Argo also has served as chair of the PROBE Counselor Workshop Committee for five years.
He received his bachelor’s degree in communications in 2004 and master’s degree in public administration from Augusta State in 2008.
He is a past president of the Augusta State University Alumni Association and is the recipient of the 2011 Young Alumnus Award. He also served as a member of the Children’s Medical Center’s Red Wagon Society and as a volunteer for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Argo is the second Augusta State employee to be elected to serve this post since the organization’s founding in 1954. Katherine Sweeney, registrar and director of admissions, served as president in 2003-2004.
GACRAO is composed of over 1,000 higher education professionals from more than 75 public and private colleges and universities located throughout the state of Georgia (and a few more throughout the Southeast). Through workshops, conferences, meetings, and online resources, the association works to advance the professional goals of its members through the dissemination of information and the interchange of ideas on topics of common interest to enrollment management and higher education.
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