Call for Proposals

The call is closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal.

The 2009 Southern Regional conference committee invites you to be a part of the 2009 regional conference by sharing experiences about what your institution has done to celebrate their heritage. 

Presentations should include topics such as institutional culture and structure, alternative academic delivery methods and locations, mission creep including proliferation and reevaluation of academic programs, faculty compensation and workloads, reductions-in-force and furloughs, stresses from athletics, academic and administrative technologies, community interactions such as service learning and/or corporate partnerships, joint plans to mitigate effects of crime and disasters, sharing resources across boundaries, state policies such as P-20 or lotteries, and efforts to sustain, create, and continue our cultural heritages under economic uncertainties.

Guidelines for Proposals

Workshop sessions are 4 hours in length and present an opportunity for in-depth treatment of a particular subject of interest. Typically, workshops include a combination of presentation, dialog, and hands-on experiences. Workshop presenters are considered experts in the subject area and expected to provide handout materials to attendees. Workshop enrollments are limited in size to facilitate interaction and discussion.

Concurrent sessions last 60 minutes; they should include no more than 50 minutes of presentation followed by 10 minutes for questions and answers. For proposals most likely to be accepted for inclusion, please consider the following:

1. Stick to the conference topic. The reviewers will be looking for pertinent proposals that supplement and enhance the themes demonstrated by the host institutions and discussed by the plenary speakers.
2. Include institutional representatives. Proposals should reflect planning done either internally by the institution or collaboratively with the institution. You must confirm the commitment of all speakers listed in your proposal; this is essential in the case of your institutional representative.
3. Fill out the on-line proposal form carefully and completely. Partial answers, unclear sentences, failure to address the specific question, missing information, poor grammar, misspellings and other irregularities are the red-flags of hastily prepared proposals. Any one of these weaknesses can jeopardize your acceptance.

To learn more about what SCUP is doing in regards to campus heritage visit: www.campusheritage.org/