Call for Proposals
The Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC) fosters communication between higher education IT professionals across the state. Our annual conference is an opportunity for colleges and universities to shares IT strategies that work so ideas can be transferred to other campuses to improve education for students across Ohio and beyond.
The 2011 OHECC conference is organized by the University of Cincinnati and will take place on UC’s main campus on March 23, 24 and 25.
We invite you to submit a proposal for the next conference.
2011 Conference Theme
The theme of this year's conference is “focus on the future.” We at the University of Cincinnati are looking forward to putting together a forward-thinking agenda to highlight what’s next in the world of higher education technology.
We ask that you submit topics geared towards that focus - what new technologies have you incorporated that are successful? How are you adapting to the changing requirements of your students, staff and faculty members? What’s next as the relationship between technology and education strengthens?
Please consider the following six tracks.
Security - In higher education, IT professionals are faced with an increasing number of security challenges: mobile devices, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and cyber threats just to name a few. Incorporating risk management processes as well as responding to security threats and evaluating legal imperatives are at the forefront for those charged with providing technology and infrastructure to meet the needs of the institution.
Leadership/Management - Key challenges for any higher education IT organization is managing effectively in an environment of increasing demands and decreasing resources management, leadership and “soft” skills are pivotal to meeting these challenges. This track explores management skills and techniques. It is designed to challenge your thinking, generate or create new concepts for service excellence, and engage you in stimulating dialogue with your peers.
Client services As technology becomes increasingly interwoven with all aspects of higher education, support and training resources are being pushed to their limits. Many times the focus is on pushing out the technology without consideration for the impact of these changes. This track will focus on support and training strategies, tools and new approaches to an age-old problem.
Applications Development and System Support - Those responsible for academic and administration systems support are often faced with providing the means as well as the tools and support needed to meet rising expectations. This track will focus on innovative approaches to using technology for system support as well as in teaching and learning.
Academic Technologies - Learn how your peers are using the latest tools and technologies, or how they are adapting old technologies for new uses. In this track you will learn how to leverage technology in new and exciting ways and make that technology more fun and useful.
Infrastructure - Are your servers and your network ready to meet the challenges and increased demand of the future? Don’t reinvent the wheel Find out what your peers are doing
Session Formats
Standard Presentation Session (1-2 people): 45 minutes
A focused, interactive session is encouraged with clear objectives and learning outcomes for the audience
Standard Presentation Session with vendor (1-3 people): 45 minutes
Similar to the standard presentation but will include speakers from a college/university and vendor discussing work on which they have collaborated. Note that the college/university must actually submit the proposal and no submissions with the vendor listed as the lead presenter will be accepted.
Panel Session (3 people): 45 minutes
Rather than a series of short, individual presentations, panel sessions should be genuinely interactive among the panelists, and between the panelists and the audience. The panelists can develop different perspectives or discuss various aspects of the topic.
Roundtable Sessions: 90 minutes
Roundtable discussions will be moderated on predetermined topics.
Deadlines
January 21, 2011 - Contributed Paper, Panel Session, Preconference, and Workshop proposals due
February 4, 2011 - Evaluation of proposal and notifications
Evaluation of Proposals
Each proposal will be reviewed by a minimum of two OHECC steering committee members who will recommend one of the following options 1) acceptance 2) revision 3) rejection. The reviewers will provide feedback to rejected proposals.
The reviewers will examine and evaluate proposals in these areas:
- Clear connection between the title of the session and its content (titles should be less than 10 words compelling to attract an interdisciplinary audience, and align with session content)
- Significance and relevance of the topic for this conference
- Clarity and value of the objectives for the session
- Means of engaging the audience in the session
- Expressed learning outcomes for attendees
Proposal Review Board
The OHECC steering committee reviews all proposal submissions and makes decisions on final selections.
The committee consists of:
The University of Akron
Herbert S Matheny, Director, Enterprise Data Center
Bowling Green State University
Deb Wells
Cleveland State University
William Shepard, Director of Application Development
The University of Cincinnati
Mark Young, Director, Operations, Student and Administrative Systems
Miami University
Ricki Davidge, Manager of Campus Partnerships
Ohio University
Heather M Humphreys, HR & Budget Specialist
Shawnee State University
Dan White, User Support Manager
The Ohio State University
Cathy Bindewald, Director, IT Communications and Planning
Wright State University
Mary Clem, Assistant Director, CaTS Client Services
Acceptance of Proposals
The presenters of all accepted proposals are to give confirmation of their attendance and pay for conference registration no later than February 16, 2011. Note that presenters are responsible for their own conference registration fee, travel and lodging.
We will use the copy in your proposal to create the abstracts that will be used in the conference program booklet. Therefore, it is very important that careful consideration is given to the original submission. We reserve the right to edit copy if space limitations apply.
- Presentation topic and names/schools of presenters
- Abstract text: less than 100 words
- Content: summarize content of the presentation, including its objectives and learning outcomes for the audience. Provide any relevant resources such as book or article titles and web sites
Presenters are asked to fully participate in the entire conference arid attend sessions and events.
Presenters whose registration fee is not received by February 16, 2011 may be deleted from the conference schedule of sessions and program booklet.
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