Thursday, October 24, 2013

NISOD - Call for Proposals

(reposted from NISOD announcement)

NISOD’s annual conference is the definitive gathering of faculty, administrators, and staff seeking to engage in deep conversations about best and promising practices designed to improve student achievement. This call for presentations invites proposals that address important issues facing today’s community and technical colleges, including:
  • Demands to increase the number of completers
  • Continuing need for postsecondary remediation
  • Synchronizing higher education expectations and high school reform efforts
  • Improving alignments between two- and four-year institutions
  • Substantial reliance on part-time faculty
  • Fully online and blended courses and programs and other educational technologies
  • Shifting demands for skilled labor
  • New approaches to sub-baccalaureate training and credentialing
  • Joint-baccalaureate programming
  • Declining fiscal resources
  • Calls for improved data systems, data-sharing, and accountability
  • Under-representation of African-American, Latino, Native American, female, and low-income students in STEM disciplines
  • Shifting demographic, political, and economic forces
  • Succession planning for faculty and senior administrators

Submit your proposal by January 10, 2014

Additional information, including the complete list of program strands, can be found at www.nisod.org/conference

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