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Call for Proposals
Proposal Deadline: November 16, 2012
Theme: "Partnering to Serve: Opportunities for All"
The 2013 ACHE South Conference will be held at the Sandestin Resort, Florida. The resort is actually like a small village, combining shops, recreation, restaurants and lodging into one large area for visitors’ convenience. Similarly, many outreach units throughout the country are combined into one larger unit in order to better serve our customers. By sharing resources, we can be more efficient and offer a greater diversity of programming. In order to accomplish that, we need to understand the 'big picture'...where does continuing education fit within our universities' strategic objectives, and how do we work toward reaching a more diverse audience? As we become a more global society, diverse audiences will be crucial to remaining competitive.
As continuing educators, we are often called upon in difficult economic times to reinvent ourselves to attract new populations to our colleges and universities and think creatively about higher education's responsibility for community and regional development. As an academic community, we are also committed to lifelong learning, exceptional student service, and business, industry, and public outreach. We do this by not only creating vital business, marketing and student service resources within our areas, but through external partnerships with businesses, organizations, vendors and other providers.
Topics and audience for proposals consistent with this year's theme include but are not limited to:
- Continuing Education: the Diversity Within - targeted towards the variety of resource units within continuing education (marketing, student services, business management, etc.), these sessions will show how all units contribute to big picture. Best practices in web marketing, internal and external communication and promotional strategies, budgeting, student surveys, responsiveness to learner needs.
- Understanding Where We Fit - examples of how we contribute to: our institution's strategic objectives, value of continuing education, civic and community engagement practices, promotion and tenure policies revisited, restructuring faculty enrichment and rewards, military admission and tuition policies, curricular flexibility for adult degree-completion programs, global competitiveness and offerings, financial aid for adult students.
- Best Practices in Programming - examples of how we reach broader audiences including: innovative programs, accelerated degree programs, military education, study abroad, service learning, programs for returning veterans, experiential learning, adult learning, literacy programs, service-learning/civic engagement, graduation requirements.
- Remembering Our Customers - Continuing Education serves a diverse customer base (cradle to grave, differing philosophies, generational differences). These sessions welcome best practices and anecdotes of: business and industry partnerships, workforce and professional development, adult student degree-completion programs, access through distance learning, student research, placement of continuing education within the institution, inclusion of civic and community engagement practices in the curriculum and throughout the institution.
- Diversity of Delivery - We use a variety of methods to serve customers, including: podcasting, online, webinars, other technologies, workshops, weekend nontraditional delivery methods, customer service, certificate programs, customized training, off-campus locations, alternative scheduling, hybrid courses, programs for the military, developmental (remedial) programs, service-learning or community-based learning in the curriculum.
Guidelines for Concurrent Session Proposals: Concurrent sessions will be 45-minutes in length, with session times on Monday, April 22, Tuesday, April 23 and Wednesday, April 24, for a total of 12-15 different presentations.
To propose a concurrent session, please provide the following items of information in the format below:
- Name, Institution, Mailing Address, Telephone, Fax, E-mail for all presenters
- Title of presentation.
- Abstract of presentation (70-80 words)
- Brief biography of presenter(s)
- One page double-spaced Presentation Summary, including pertinence to conference theme.
- Special AV equipment needs.
Submit Proposals by e-mail to dlavit@murraystate.edu by November 16, 2012
Questions about proposal submission should be directed to Dan Lavit, Murray State University, dlavit@murraystate.edu. Those submitting proposals will be notified of the decision by December 14, 2012.
Call for Session Presiders:
Session presiders are needed to introduce presenters, to start and end the sessions on time, and to distribute and collect session evaluations. Â If you are available please e-mail Lisa Graves at lgraves@outreach.lsu.edu by December 14, 2012.