NAASS 2007
Conference Schedule
Conference-At-A-Glance | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday
- Sunday, November 11, 2007
- 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
- New Administrators' Workshop Continental Breakfast
- Kihei Room
- 8:00 AM
- Conference Registration Desk Opens
- Waikapu Room
- 8:00 AM
- NAASS/WASSA New Administrators' Workshop
- Kihei Room
- Presenter: Jon Neidy (Bradley University)
- The New Administrators' Workshop, open to NAASS and Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA) institutions, provides a valuable opportunity for new or almost new Summer Session Administrators to share experiences and learn together. The purpose of the workshop is to provide you with an overview of summer session, its administration and planning with the new administrator in mind. The morning sessions are planned to let you reflect and organize your thoughts and help answer some of the questions you may have about summer operations. As new administrators, you all come to summer sessions with different experiences and different perspectives. This highly interactive session will provide you with an opportunity to reflect on what you already know about your university, administration, faculty and programs, and merge your knowledge with new information about the uniqueness of the summer term.
- The half-day session culminates with lunch at 12:30 PM when members of standing committees and the Administrative Council (the governing body of NAASS) will join you for lunch, thus starting the integration process. New administrators can immediately meet members of NAASS's and WASSA's large network of peers and mentors, all willing to share your concerns and discuss possible solutions. If you are planning on attending this workshop please be sure to register in advance.
- Cost: $100.00 (Includes workshop materials, continental breakfast, and lunch).
- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
- Official Opening Session of the 44th Annual NAASS Conference
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- Karen Heikel (Montana State University Billings), President of NAASS
- Loy Lytle (University of California, Santa Barbara), President-Elect of NAASS and Conference Program Chair
- Peter Tanaka (University of Hawai‘i, Manoa), NAASS conference host
- 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
- The Consultation Corner 1: Institutional Constraints and Challenges
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- Consultants: Dana Dudley (Pepperdine University) and Thomas Kowalik (Binghamton University-SUNY)
- One way of managing institutional constraints and challenges is to manage the way the administration perceives you. How do you provide administrators with a balanced view of the department without risking over-promotion or obscurity? Important aspects of summer sessions interactions with its home institution include finances; the extent to which the unit serves and extends the institutional mission; the quality of the learning experiences it provides for students, and how it fosters strong relationships with academic departments and support units.
- 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
- The Consultation Corner 2: Defining Summer Sessions' Mission at Your Institution
- Kapalua and Napili Rooms
- Consultants: M. Wayne Childs (Brigham Young University) and Douglas J. (Doug) Lee (University of Iowa)
- The mission of summer sessions falls into three broad categories: things that you must do; things that you should do; and things that you want to do. There are varying degrees of latitude within each category but one of the enjoyable aspects of summer session administration is that you can often achieve all three. Strategic planning and assessment are crucial to defining summer sessions mission.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- The Consultation Corner 3: Internal Marketing To Your Institutional Constituents
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- Consultants: Stefan Gunther (The George Washington University) and Fay Thompson (University of Saskatchewan)
- There are innovative and proven ways to raise summer sessions' institutional visibility including finding ways to increase awareness of what summer sessions offers, building relationships between administrative and academic departments, increasing its awareness among institutional officers, maintaining strong and effective working relationships among faculty, staff and, of course, students.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- The Consultation Corner 4: External Marketing To Increase Student Enrollments
- Kapalua and Napili Rooms
- Consultants: Michelle Bartlett (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) and Donna Shea (Boston University)
- Marketing is the name of the game. Thinking outside the box attracts more students, promotes enrollments of continuing and visiting students, increases credit hours, and makes your campus a destination during the summer months. Outside marketing can include website optimization and pay-per-click campaigns, email, direct mail, catalogs, newspaper advertisements, radio, and posters. We'll share our experiences with all who come.
- 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
- The Consultation Corner 5: Maximizing Student/Parent Relationships and Interactions with Your Office
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- Consultants: E. Mike Poe (Northwest Nazarene University) and Linda Schoepflin (Washington State University)
- Successful summer sessions operations provide outstanding customer service. "Customers" include members of the campus community (students, faculty, staff) as well as the public (parents, alumni, members of the community). Making sure summer sessions' staff who interact with these customers are on the same page is extremely important. Doing it within the constraints of privacy laws (such as FERPA) can be challenging. One must also consider whether technology has improved or placed communication barriers between the customers served by the University.
- 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
- The Consultation Corner 6: Facilitating Faculty and Administrative Relationships
- Kapalua and Napili Rooms
- Consultants: William (Bill) McClure (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Sarah Ormrod (University of Cambridge)
- One of the most important challenges for summer sessions is to develop and facilitate appropriate professional relationships with faculty and campus administrators. Without achieving proper balance, summer session programs are in jeopardy. These relationships are the basis for either stressful or successful communications and partnerships, even though at times some teaching faculty can be just as difficult as administrators lurking in the institution's hierarchical pecking order. While there is no disagreement that faculty and administrator relationships must function smoothly and effectively, the trick is learning how this be done to the benefit of all.
- 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
- New Administrators' Luncheon with NAASS and WASSA Mentors
- Kula and Hana Rooms
- Members of the NAASS Administrative Council and standing committee members and WASSA officers and committee members join participants of the New Administrators' Workshop for lunch and lively discussions of what it is like to be involved in summer sessions administration.
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
- The NAASS Legacy Series 1: "A Long View of the Past-A Glimpse of the Future"
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- Moderator: Michael Nelson (NAASS Executive Secretary)
- Presenter: Clodus Smith (University of Maryland, College Park; Emeritus)
- The time was right and the need was great in the early 1960's for the formulation of an organization to assist institutions and administrators to speak with one voice within the higher education community. The development of a professional association for summer sessions and their administrators fulfilled that felt need for colleges and universities to provide quality year-round education and strengthen the role of its administrators. We will reflect on the times and circumstances surrounding the creation of NAASS/NACUSS from its inception during times of massive social changes of the mid-1960's and the organization's evolution into a self-sustaining, professional association that provides outstanding self-improvement opportunities to the leadership of summer programs.
- 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
- Panel Presentation 1: Bread and Butter Summer Programs
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- Moderator: Allyson Morris (Regis University)
- "Ways To Ramp Up Revenue"
- Panelist: Carol Switzer (Arizona State University)
- This presentation will explore options for both curricular mandates and "summer only" classes that provide significant revenue generation. As you Ramp up your Revenue, we'll discuss which models are the easiest to implement.
- "Bread and Butter Programs, Will Somebody Please Pass the Jam?"
- Panelist: Thomas J. Venables (Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, Camden)
- We cannot over emphasize the importance of year-long planning and preparation for a successful summer structure. The elements of creative marketing will only work if the fundamental offerings are sound and do-able and are focused on meeting the curricular needs of students. We all like the glitz and the glamor, but that might not be what students academically need. The not-so-secret-secret is to carve out a solid academic niche and do hat you do well.
- "Summer Sciences and Pre-Med Students"
- Panelist: William Whobrey (Yale University)
- Yale University Summer Sessions offers a number of highly enrolled science courses, subscribed mostly by students who need to fulfill pre-med requirements. Which courses to offer, how to teach intensive science courses, and how to help mostly non-science students do well in these courses are questions that deserve careful consideration and good answers. We'll also take a look at some other summer programs in this area, then compare and contrast these with what pre-med advisors tell us we need to know in managing our summer science courses.
- 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
- Panel Presentation 2: Summer Credit-Bearing Outreach Programs
- Kapalua and Napili Rooms
- Moderator: Peter Tanaka (University of Hawai‘i, Manoa)
- "Credit Bearing Pre-College Outreach: A Taste Of College"
- Panelist: Tryna Luton (Oregon State University)
- Oregon State University Extended Campus offers three different credit programs for pre-college students: A Taste of College, Expanded Options, and College Courses for High School Students. We will explore the benefits of credit programs for high school students and hear about each program offered through Extended Campus, as well as a new dual credit program currently being created in collaboration with the colleges and departments of OSU at large.
- "Enhancing Institutional Visibility and Promoting Student Success"
- Panelist: Elizabeth A. Hart (Brown University)
- Summer outreach programs can be a mechanism to introduce students to the benefits of your campus' quality academics, facilities and resources, outstanding teaching faculty, strong sense of community, and the like. In the process, outreach program students develop a certain familiarity and comfort level with your institution, and are exposed to the academic expectations of a college curriculum.
- "Three Years and Something to CHEER About!"
- Panelist: Rasheema Johnson (Fayetteville State University)
- The CHEER (Creating Higher Expectations for Educational Readiness) program, now in its third year, is a bridge program designed to ease the transition to the University, and better prepare the students for their baccalaureate studies. Incoming freshmen participants get "head starts" on their college careers by taking foundation courses in Mathematics and English composition. The program is supplemented with intensive academic support activities and participants receive a scholarship to cover costs.
- 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
- Panel Presentation 3: Summer Travel Study Programs
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- Moderator: Jon Matsuda(University of Hawai‘i, Manoa)
- "The Alchemy of Travel-Study Program Development"
- Panelist: Molly Schneider (University of California, Irvine)
- UC Irvine's summer travel-study programs have been increased by over 300% in the last four years. While travel-study programs have traditionally been oriented to the liberal arts, the majority of UC Irvine's students are biological science majors invested in programs of study that leave them with little academic flexibility or free time. One Summer 2007 travel study program hosted by a Chilean University who worked with our faculty to develop an appropriate biological sciences curriculum attracted 60 enrolled students, showing that travel study programs with tailored curricula may be quite attractive for targeted groups of students with special academic needs.
- "On the Road Again - Education with Travel is Fun!"
- Panelist: William (Bill) McClure (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- We developed and offered a series of travel programs while I was at Binghamton University-SUNY over a ten year period. These non-credit travel programs, focused on non-matriculated adults, produced strong enrollments and revenue while creating a campus outreach opportunity with the community.
- "Summer Travel Study: A Unique Advantage for Students to Acquire Cultural Understanding and Awareness"
- Panelist: Susan Sims (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Over the last few years UCLA has been very successful in expanding its mission of giving students a global education. Our Summer Sessions' Travel Study Programs facilitate this mission by providing students the opportunity to study abroad during the summer while earning credit toward their degrees. This presentation will highlight the innovative programs offered through UCLA Summer Travel Study and discuss the successes and challenges of offering over 30 programs around the world.
- 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
- Panel Presentation 4: Special Summer Academic Programs
- Kapalua and Napili Rooms
- Moderator: Florie Wilcoxson (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
- "Offering Simulcast Courses To Off-Campus Locations In Summer: Opportunities And Challenges"
- Panelist: Robert G. Mann (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Although 45% of UCSB's continuing students enroll in at least one summer term course on the main campus, many students from the Los Angeles area choose not to attend summer classes on campus because they return home to live with their families in summer. We decided to expand summer enrollment by recruiting some of these students, as well as some pre-college students, to attend courses that were simulcast from the campus to a high school located in the West Los Angeles area. UCSB began this initiative in Summer 2003, and this talk will outline some of the opportunities, challenges, and misadventures of offering videoconferenced, off campus summer programs.
- "The Innovation Game: Engaging Your Partners in Program Innovation"
- Panelist: Victoria Matthew (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- As summer administrators we are often charged with developing new and innovative programs. But what happens when schools, colleges and other partners don't want to play? This presentation will discuss our Outreach Program Innovation Fund and the way it has been used to develop new programming and incentives for faculty to teach online.
- "Improving Summer Enrollments After Flat & Declining Years—Balancing Online and On-campus Course Offerings"
- Panelist: Bill Taylor (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
- We have invested significant time and effort in balancing declining summer enrollments on campus with increases in distance enrollments. This has become increasingly important since all state schools in North Carolina lost state funding for summer sessions in 2006. We now have two summers of dramatic increases in distance enrollments in the face of flat or declining summer enrollments on the main campus.
- 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
- Hands-On-Workshop 1: The Art of Lei-Making
- Kihei Room
- Presenter: Silla Kaina (Maui Kapalua Resort)
- Learn the mana'o (thought) behind the Hawaiian practice of making and giving lei. Discover the history, social protocols, techniques, and materials used in lei making and then spend some time making your own. (Maximum participants in session: 20-please indicate your interest in this session when you register for the conference).
- 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
- Hands-On-Workshop 2: "The Art of the Hula – For Those with Rhythm…or Not!"
- Wailea Room
- Presenter: Alan Hunley (University of Hawai'i, Manoa)
- Hula is often called the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people, so what better way to learn about the culture than through the dance. This is a Hands- and Feet-On workshop, so we will learn by doing. We will cover some of the basic steps and hand motions and finish by learning a simple, yet beautiful hula. Participants should wear comfortable clothes to move in (shorts and t-shirts are fine) and women should bring a pareo (or pareu) if you have one (if you don't know what a "pareo" or pareu is, you probably don't have one and you are probably a male!)
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
- NAASS Finance Committee Meeting
- Makena Room
(Harris—chair; Gamboa; Garcia; Howie; Kalinowski; Nunes; Poe) - 7:30 PM
- Dinner On Your Own
