Region 2 Delaware State Drive-In Call for Proposals

The Call For Proposals for Region 2 Delaware State Drive-in One-Day Academic Advising Conference

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Due Date for Submissions: March 24, 2015

NACADA Region 2 Delaware State Drive-In Planning Committee invites you to submit a proposal for the 2015 NACADA Delaware State One-Day Academic Advising Conference and encourages you to inform all colleagues that may be interested in presenting at the Delaware One-Day Drive in on June 1^st 2015 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The conference welcomes proposals from all areas of academic advising, and from those with a range of skill and experience levels. Proposal should reference the general theme, Play Ball! Advising in the Big Leagues. The conference planning committee would like to see a collaboration of presenters from all Delaware higher education, and that of the surrounding states. You do not need to be a member of NACADA to present, or to attend the event.

The conference is intended for administrators, academic advisors, and faculty advisors. The preferred presenters should offer best practices in the various areas of advising for both community colleges and baccalaureate colleges.

Proposals could address topics including, but not limited to, the following:

Proposals could address topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• advising and technology
• advising students with academic difficulties and/or disabilities
• advising the whole student
• assessment: advising athletes
• working with students in crisis
• advising transfer/nontraditional students
• achieving balance in advising
• advising and self care
• career advising
• challenges: faculty involvement
• transition from high school to college
• advising first-generation students
• advising veteran students
• advising international students
• retention: students on probation
• addressing student engagement and stress
• mentoring

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSION CRITERIA:

Criteria for selection of paper/presentation: Proposals will be evaluated based on relevance to current issues in advising, appeal to conference participants, creativity, ingenuity, and applicability for participants after the conference. We are seeking a wide range of presentation topics relating to academic advising from a variety of advising professionals in our region.

Eligibility for submission: Anyone involved in advising (administration, faculty, full-time advisors, and administrative staff) is invited to submit a proposal. We encourage novices and experienced presenters alike. Share your research, best practices, or techniques with colleagues in the region.

Proposals should include your presentation title, abstract and learning objectives. 
Please include a brief abstract describing your presentation, an outline of presentation, and the desired learning objectives. .Abstracts will be included in the conference program. Please limit abstracts to 150 words.
All sessions will be concurrent sessions which will be 60 minutes long.

 PLEASE NOTE:

• Due to budgetary constraints, complimentary registration or lodging for paper presenters is not available.
• NACADA does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or marital status.