Call for Presenters

Second Annual Florida Higher Education Summit - June 6-10, 2010

The Second Annual Florida Higher Education Summit will be held Jun 6-10, 2010 at the Doubletree Hotel in Orlando. Once again this year the summit will combine the Annual FACRAO conference with the Florida College Registrars and Admissions Officers (FCRAO) annual meeting and the State University System (SUS) data administrators annual workshop. We look forward to building on the success we enjoyed with last year’s Summit.

Additionally, our second FISEM (FACRAO Institute for Strategic Enrollment Management) workshop will be held on Sunday the 6th.

FACRAO needs your assistance in making our second Higher Education Summit a success. We are planning on a very comprehensive program which will include member presentation sessions, all conference plenary sessions, business meetings, roundtable discussions and of course social gatherings for networking.

If you would like to offer your services as a presenter or if you would like to recommend someone for a particular presentation, please contact me.

Presentation sessions can cover a wide variety of topics. They can be general in nature to appeal to all attendees or specific to admissions, registrar, public four year, public two year or private institutions. Generally, sessions are scheduled for 1 hour and will be listed in the program as FACRAO Concurrent sessions. Contact me with your suggestions and I will forward a registration form.

Here are some suggestions for topics:

Using social networking (admissions or registrar)
Stealth applications (admissions)
Update on the VA & the new GI Bill; possibly even the new Yellow Ribbon program
Financial Literacy
The new HEA regulations—making it accessible to everyone
Living with budget cuts (not new/different but very relevant!)
Tuition waivers/assistantships/fellowships for graduate programs
Retention strategies and tracking academic progress in graduate programs
Changes in graduate admissions criteria
Use of imaging for document management
NCAA initial and continuing eligibility
Motivating strategies for overworked and understaffed offices

In addition to presenters we will also require session moderators and other volunteers for the Summit. Once again if you would like to volunteer contact me for details.

On behalf of the FACRAO Executive Committee and thanks for your consideration and we look forward to your active participation.The preliminary program and hotel information will be posted shortly.

Feel free to contact me at (239) 590-7891 or email at mlaviole@fgcu.edu if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

R. Marc Laviolette
VP Professional Development, FACRAO