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The NAASS Annual Conference brings together higher education administrators, staff, faculty, and other professionals who work with summer, winter, and other special sessions, including traditional summer for-credit academic sessions in summer and winter, pre-college programs, bridge/early start programs, education abroad, and more.

Use this portal to submit proposals for both conference sessions (including panels, guided discussions, traditional presentations, and lunchtime round-tables) and the Creative & Innovative Awards.


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NAASS Annual Conference Proposals

This year’s theme is Innovation and Excellence Year-Round. The conference committee invites proposals that highlight work done to support Innovation and Excellence in any type of summer, winter, or special session program. We are particularly seeking proposals for presentations on activities or research that support innovation and/or best practices in our work.

As our profession represents a broad diversity of affiliations, roles, and areas of expertise, we welcome proposals on a broad range of topics and in the following formats:

• Round-table sessions
• Facilitated discussions
• Traditional presentations
• Panels

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Conference proposals are due Aug. 6, 2018.

If you have missed the deadline, please contact the Conference Chair directly: email Susanna Cowan

NAASS Creative & Innovative Awards Submissions

NAASS is also accepting applications for the 2018 NAASS Creative & Innovative Awards!

Each year NAASS recognizes member schools that offer creative and innovative programs. Through these awards, NAASS seeks to highlight the importance of curriculum development, give credit to summer session administrators who make outstanding contributions to the operation/management of summer session, and provide a forum for members to learn from each other.

Awards will go to projects that show innovation and creativity in the following categories

Marketing
Either overall marketing plans or single marketing ideas

Credit
Courses for which students earn college-level credit hours that apply toward a degree

Non-Credit
All other courses categorized as non-credit, even though "credit" may be earned toward teacher CEUs, a high school diploma, etc.

Administrative
Approaches to planning, financing, marketing, reporting, administrative structure, public relations, student engagement/success, etc.

[To submit for the Creative & Innovative Awards, please login to the site above.]

Creative & Innovative proposals are due Aug. 31, 2018.

If you have questions, please contact the Awards chair directly: email Erin Moseley

Western Region Awards

Are you submitting an awards proposal for the Western Region? Instructions for submitting to each of the four Western Region Awards categories is available at the NAASS Conference site. Click naass.org/conferenceawards/ to access detailed instructions for submission!

Western Region Awards proposals are due August 31, 2018