Pre-Symposium
Workshop-Only Registration Now Available
We are now able to accept
credit card payment!
Develop
your resources for sustainable assessment and share
your questions and ideas with faculty members,
administrators, assessment professionals and other professional
staff from
institutions of higher education around the country.
We
are pleased to have Dr.
Peggy Maki, Higher Education Consultant,
Peggy Maki Associates, as our keynote speaker; Linda
Suskie, Vice President, Middle States
Commission on Higher Education, as our Saturday
plenary; Dr. Joseph Hoey
IV, Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness,
Savannah College of Art and Design, as our Sunday
Plenary. The Saturday
panel
discussion will feature representatives from
regional accreditors discussing the future of assessment and accreditation
in higher education. Panelists include:
Rudy Jackson, Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS); Lynn
Priddy , Higher Learning Commission of the North Central
Association (HLC-NCA);
Patricia O'Brien, New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC);
and Linda
Suskie, Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). Judith
Watkins, Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), will be the moderator.
Join us
for what promises to be an exciting and educational
event!
Featured
tracks are: Academic Disciplines,
General Education, Community Colleges, Student
Development, Scholarship of Teaching & Learning,
International Education, Institutional Competencies
and Academic Support Services.
The
Symposium offers:
• Pre-Conference Workshops -
For an additional fee, optional in-depth half-day workshops
are available on Friday, April 13, 2007. Continental breakfast
and lunch is provided.
• General Session Presentations - Keynote,
Plenaries and Panel Discussion
• Concurrent Workshops -
60-minute concurrent workshops will be
offered for the featured tracks
cited above. We are pleased to offer three
new tracks this year: General
Education, International Education and Academic
Support Services. Featured presenters include: Patti
Clayton, Darla
Deardorff, Barbara
Miller, R. Michael Paige, Ephraim
Schechter, Brian Whalen.
• Other
Opportunities - Sponsors and Exhibitors will host demonstration
sessions concurrent to the workshops. Please see your program for
details. You will have a chance to mingle with exhibitors, presenters
and other higher education professionals during breaks and meals
included with your registration fee, such as: Friday night dinner;
and Saturday lunch and evening
reception. We are pleased to feature a series of round
table discussions to be hosted at lunch on Saturday. Please
see the schedule for more details.