Be
sure to visit the Advising Adult
Learners table at the Commission and Interest Group Fair at
the Annual Conference!
For a complete listing
of presentations in the Advising
Adult Learners track at the 2008 Annual
Conference in Chicago, please visit the following web site.
Commission-sponsored sessions are
indicated by a blue asterisk (*).
*NOTE:
The time, date, and meeting room posted are subject to change.
Be sure to check the complete conference program that you will
receive upon your arrival at registration onsite prior to attending
a session.
Regionals:
Why
should active Adult Learners Commission members also get involved
in their own regions? It's a great way to get to know colleagues
who are in your state and region and with whom you could collaborate
on programs, research, and conference presentations.
Travel
budget cutbacks may make it difficult for all NACADA members to
attend the annual conference
each year, but the costs of the regional meetings and transportation
to them are much less. More of your nearby colleagues might be
able to attend your regional meeting than the annual
conference.
Therefore,
we encourage you to make plans to attend your regional meeting
next spring and to get involved. You could even serve
as a liaison of the Adult Learner Commission to your region.
You could request time on the regional meeting schedule for a
get-together for colleagues interested in adult learning that
you could facilitate.
Regionals
are also a great place to try out a new presentation idea that
you have been considering. There are fewer people attending the
regional and you will be among friends. You can try out your speaking
skills in a non-threatening environment. You can experiment with
that new PowerPoint program! You can try a new way to engage the
participants in dialogue. It's a great place for practicing a
presentation that you can then revise and submit for consideration
for the annual conference
the next fall.
So,
plan to attend your regional meeting at the annual conference
in the fall to find out all the details about how to get involved
in your region. Then make plans to attend your Region's Conference
in the spring.
Presentation
Proposals:
You are encouraged to
submit proposals for your regional conference and for the annual
conference each year. We always want to be sure that there are
plenty of presentations at these events that focus on the needs
of adult learners and how we can better serve them.
Check out the regional
conference web sites for the electronic submission form and
all the details each year. You are encouraged to submit proposals
for roundtables, concurrent sessions, and poster sessions about
adult learning and about advising adult learners from your particular
point of view.
A team of our commission
members will review the anonymous proposals through special access
to the web site. Proposals will be evaluated from the adult learning
perspective and recommendations submitted to the conference planning
committee for those to be listed as "Sponsored by the Adult
Learners Commission". If you wish to volunteer to serve on
this committee for next year, contact the current
Chair of the Adult Learners Commission.
