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Call for Proposals

Realizing Student Potential/ITeach 2009

February 27-28, 2009

Minneapolis Community and Technical College

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Realizing Student Potential/ITeach 2009 will focus on Communities in Higher Education. This theme captures many of the “buzz” words of day-to-day work: Collaboration, Change, Partnerships, Networks, Connections, Colleagues, People… More importantly, this theme gets to the truth of our work: that we experience success in teaching today’s students—tomorrow’s workforce and leaders—only when we come together toward common goals.

Two keynote speakers will address the conference theme. On Friday, George Kuh, Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, Bloomington, will speak about “The Classroom as the Foundation for Building Community and Fostering Student Success.” On Saturday, George Kuh will join Sally Johnstone, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Winona State University, in a discussion about the technology that supports collaborative cultures and how these tools can help faculty and students.

PROPOSALS
The proposal submission deadline is November 23, 2008.

We seek proposals from YOU and all statewide faculty, staff and administrators for:

60-minute concurrent sessions
60-minute roundtables/conversation cafés
90-minute hands-on workshops
75-minute poster sessions
75-minute discipline meetings

Faculty are especially encouraged to submit proposals to facilitate discipline meetings. Ideally, each discipline meeting will have an agenda or general topic for discussion proposed by a facilitator. CTL can announce topics for discipline meetings in the print and online versions of the conference program, provided we get a proposal from faculty members.

TRACKS
How do YOU help students realize their potential? Choose one of the following tracks:

Collaboration and Community Building
(Social networks, Diversity & Cultural Competency, Partnerships, Other)
Engaging Students in Learning
(Developing Critical Thinkers, Learning Support, Assessment, Academic Integrity, Accountability & Transparency, Other)
Faculty & Professional Development
(Student Advising, Teaching Circles, Mentoring, Adjunct Support, Engaging in Research, Faculty Development Committee Structures and Priorities, Other)
Innovations & Academic Technologies
(Learning objects, Course Redesigns, Free and Low-Cost Solutions, Technology Tips, Multimedia, Games and Simulations, Other)

PEER REVIEW
All proposals will be reviewed by a committee comprising system faculty, and Office of the Chancellor and Center for Teaching and Learning staff. Successful conference proposals will address the conference theme and center on a specific issue of interest or relevance to the work of system faculty, administration, or staff. The program review committee also may take into account the presenter(s) demonstrated familiarity with current literature on their topic. In keeping with this year’s theme, preference will be given to those sessions that bring together members of a community or partnership (i.e. faculty working with administrators or cross-departmental or cross-divisional projects).

Complete your conference proposal online at:

Preparing your proposal

Alert! We've been experiencing a few problems with some of the proposals during the submission process. If you are having trouble logging in, or the proposal form does not accept your data, or some other technical issue arises with the online system, please send an email explaining the problem to martin.springborg@so.mnscu.edu. Potential presenters who submit their proposals late because of technical problems will be granted an extension. Thank you for your patience.