7th Ohio First Year Summit
 
7th Ohio First Year Summit
 

October 16, 2009

University of Cincinnati, Tangeman University Center (TUC)

The Ohio First-Year Summit is a one day symposium that draws a wide range of people and groups interested in envisioning the future of the first-year experience in higher education even as we celebrate its current status and impact.    Participants can expect to:

  • Engage in timely and thought-provoking discussion with Ohio-based colleagues; 
  •  Interact with other Summit participants in ways that foster new strategic or collaborative linkages; and
  • Gain new information, insights, or tools.  

 

The Ohio First-Year Summit will feature concurrent sessions that identify challenges, share documented solutions and achievements, and facilitate shared visions for 21st century learning.  Summit presenters are faculty, higher education researchers, professional organization/system leaders and policy makers representing local or national as well as Ohio and nearby regional contexts, student affairs professionals, student leaders, and others involved with a wide range of courses, programs, and initiatives that forward access to higher education, college student learning outcomes, or degree completion.  Sessions will:  1) promote thought-provoking discussion or interaction amongst Summit participants structured in such as away as to  foster new strategic or collaborative linkages, 2)  provide participants with new information, insights, or tools.  Sessions will support the following Summit tracks:

WHAT IS FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE?

-  Program  and course designs
-  Theoretical underpinnings and historical perspectives
-  Student learning and development contexts
-  Delivery models and  institutional approaches
                        

WHY DOES FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE MATTER?

-  Impact on student development and learning outcomes
-  Institutional outcomes
-  Best practices and synergies
-  Connections with college access, degree completion, and post-collegiate life
            
WHAT LIES AHEAD IN FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE?  

-  Teaching, learning, and the 21st century student
-  Innovations in higher education curricula
-  Harnessing advancing technology and implications for transformational change
-  Economic contexts and higher education market trends
-  Higher education policy & governance implications at state, national, & local levels

Conference Agenda

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.         Registration/ Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:20                Welcome

9:30 - 10:30              Session I

10:40 - 11:40            Session II

11:45 - 1:10 p.m.       Lunch (Provided), Keynote/Panel

1:10 - 1:40                Posters

1:45 - 2:30                Session III

2:45 - 3:30                Session IV

3:45 - 4:30                Session V

 

 


REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration Fees:

Non-UC - $79

UC Faculty/Staff - $35

Full-time Students - $35

 

Summit Location:

University of Cincinnati, Tangeman University Center

 

Check-in for the program, as well as a continental breakfast, will be held at 8:00 a.m. on the 4th Floor of the Tangeman University Center.  Included in your registration fee is continental breakfast, lunch, program materials. The program begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m.

 To help the 7th Ohio Summit organizers offer the most dynamic program possible, please answer the following questions when registering to attend.   Comments offered here will not remain associated with individual respondents but rather will be combined and used collectively to help the organizers shape Summit-day conversations around themes of common interest to participants.

  1.  From your vantage point, what are the dilemmas/opportunities facing first-year students?
  2. From your vantage point, what is the next level of thinking that needs to be addressed regarding first-year experience?
  3. What conversation, if begun at the Summit, could ripple out in a way that creates new possibilities for future first-year college students?
 
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Exhibit/Sponsorship Information
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Hotel Accommodations
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Marriott, Kingsgate Conference Hotel, University of Cincinnati, 151 Goodman Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219 at a special conference rate of $145, single or double, plus applicable taxes. Please make your reservation by calling 888.720.1299 or 513.487.3800 and identify yourself as a participant of Ohio First Year Summit by September 17, 2009. 

 
 

 
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