Call for Proposals – Leadership Workshop/Pre-Workshop
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Call for Proposals – Leadership Workshop/Pre-Workshop

2025 AKA Leadership Workshop Poster Session – Call for Proposals

AKA Theme:   Faculty Success in Higher Education

Date:               Thursday, January 30, 2025

Time:               5:30 PM (PST) – 6:30pm (PST)

Call:                 We are seeking engaging poster proposals that address topics including:

  1. Faculty development (e.g., mentor programs, personnel processes, workload, annual reviews, communication, succession planning, models of practice, communities of learning)
  2. Faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion (e.g., models, policies)
  3. Faculty hiring, recruitment, retention, and mentoring
  4. Faculty success as related to student development (e.g., teaching, learning, advising strategies)
  5. Faculty research success (e.g., initiatives, researcher development)
  6. Faculty success as related to support staff development and effectiveness
  7. Strategic planning for faculty and student success (e.g., unit, college, program assessment, external accreditation, outcomes from processes)

The overall goal of the poster session is to share models, promising practices, and strategies so that program directors and others will be empowered to engage in conversation and explore next steps addressing faculty success.

Guidelines:      Proposals should be connected to the theme of the workshop and include:

  1. Title
  2. Name, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address of author(s)
  3. Description of the poster presentation (up to 150 words).

Submission:   Proposals are due by September 15, 2024 October 1, 2024 by 5 pm CT

If you have questions, please contact the program chair, Kim Graber kgraber@illinois.edu

Note:               If accepted, the dimensions of your poster should be no larger than 44 x 44

2025 AKA Graduate Education Pre-Workshop – Call for Proposals

AKA Theme:   Faculty Success in Higher Education

Date:               Thursday, January 30, 2025

Time:               2:00 PM (PST) – 5:00pm (PST)

Call:                 The 2025 AKA Graduate Education Pre-Workshop will explore the following topic: Recruiting, Retaining, and Mentoring Graduate Students of Today

We are seeking interactive and engaging proposals which address topics including:

  1. Recruiting graduate students in today’s competitive climate
  2. Mentoring graduate students
  3. Socializing graduate students into the expectations of a graduate program and their profession
  4. Developing an inclusive atmosphere in the program, classroom, and lab to foster a sense of belonging

Guidelines:      Successful proposals will include:

  1. Description of the presentation (150 words). Presentations time will vary based on number of accepted abstracts.
  2. Two (2) learning outcomes for session participants

Submission:   Proposals are due by September 15, 2024 October 1, 2024 by 5 pm CT

If you have questions, please contact the Graduate Education Network Chair, Liz Mullin emullin@springfieldcollege.edu

2025 AKA Undergraduate Education Pre-Workshop – Call for Proposals

AKA Theme:   Faculty Success in Higher Education

Date:               Thursday, January 30, 2025

Time:               2:00 PM (PST) – 5:00pm (PST)

Call:                 The 2025 AKA Undergraduate Education Pre-Workshop will explore the following topic: Challenges and Strategies in Promoting Undergraduate Education

We are seeking interactive and engaging proposals which address topics including:

  1. Innovative strategies and pedagogical approaches for successful teaching
  2. Managing student expectations and behaviors (e.g., demands for immediate feedback and increased engagement with technology)
  3. Undergraduate assessment of student learning
  4. Developing an inclusive atmosphere in the classroom, lab, and department to foster a sense of belonging

Guidelines:      Successful proposals will include:

  1. Description of the presentation (150 words). Presentations should be planned for 20-30 minutes.
  2. Two (2) learning outcomes for session participants

Submission: Proposals are due by September 15, 2024 October 1, 2024 by 5 pm CT

If you have questions, please contact the Undergraduate Education Network Chair, Brandon Alderman (alderman@kines.rutgers.edu).