How can I present at the conference?
Are you interested in presenting something from your own work experience? Do you wish to share your knowledge or discuss current challenges with liked-minded colleagues?
We are calling for proposals from student affairs and services professionals (both in public service agencies and institutions of higher education), across a large field of services from the operational and management field.
Interested individuals are invited to submit a short description electronically, including a title, short abstract, student services field(s) concerned, and what the audience can expect from attending this session.
Contributions are possible in three formats (please select):
- Workshop Presentation (30 min): workshop presentations are traditional programme sessions that present a student services strategy, approach, or practice in a particular student services setup; presentations should feature professional expertise in a particular field of student services, sharing critical learning from their experience and implications for colleagues; workshops are meant to be interactive between presenters and participants to promote learning and exchange of experience
- Show & Tell (10 min): show & tell sessions are short-form talks meant to present good-practices, innovative examples, successful initiatives or creative ideas for future implementation in a quick format without further introduction or context information; the main goal is to spark new ideas and conversations with fast-paced presentations
- Contribution to a panel discussion (90 min): this format will present current challenges and possible strategies in a larger format, each panel member will be invited to provide a short input on a current theme or challenge and then engage in a discussion, providing more information on the local/region/national or institutional knowledge and experience in the workshop theme; a moderater will gather panelists to provide insight, feedback, and advice on a particular area of focus, and facilitate this problem-solving sessions with a view to find common or transferable solutions to common challenges in student services
- Informal Round-tables (45 min): this open-format is simply a table, where you can speak informally about your country/region, institution, or a specific student services field in an informal conversation while participants wander around freely in a world-café format
Themes and conference tracks
Programmes should be relevant to one or more of the following student services fields:
- Student Housing & Residence Halls
- Campus Development and Design, Construction, Enlargement, and Renovation
- Residence Halls as communal places of student living and learning
- Sustainability issues in student housing
- Mental Health and Student Well-being
- Psychological counselling and mental health
- Resilience: Social interaction among students, belonging and engagement
- Physical health
- Social and economic Disparities
- Policy & Management Challenges
- Public responsibility of and for higher education
- Public financing of student services
- Change management and institutional development
- Inclusion, Equality and Diversity
- Services for student groups with special needs
- Inclusive services
- Diversity, anti-discrimination, and social justice
- Internationalisation
- International student support
- Internationalisation strategies of higher education institutions and student services
- International cooperation in student services
Submission criteria
Proposals will be evaluated by the conference organisers based on a shortlist using the following standards:
- Thematically relevant contents that address the conference themes and tracks
- Significant contribution to the student services field(s) concerned
- Relevance for the strategic development or practical implementation of efficient student services
- Engaging programme format that involves the audience and stimulates discussion
- Qualified presenter with institutional expertise in the matter
- Value base in the social dimension of higher education and student services in public responsibility
Notification
Presenters whose proposals are accepted will be informed on a rolling basis. In the case of Show&Tell and panel discussions, the presenters will be invited to a video-call to set the framework for the concerned session and fine-tune the presentations to the other presentations in the same workshop.
Presenters‘ registration
All presenters must register for the conference before the deadline and pay the full registration fee. Some registration fee waivers based on social criteria are available upon prior request.