NAASS 2007
Conference Schedule
Conference-At-A-Glance | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday
- Wednesday, November 14, 2007
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
- Buffet Breakfast Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- Annual NAASS Business Meeting
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- NAASS standing committee reports will be delivered, old and new business is addressed, and the 2006 fiscal year financial outcomes and 2007 fiscal year budget projections will be presented to, reviewed by, and voted on by the membership.
- Outgoing president Karen Heikel turns over the presidential gavel to incoming president Loy Lytle and the new slate of NAASS officers are announced.
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- The NAASS Legacy Series 6: "New Ways of Thinking Summer Sessions"
- Wailuku and Kahului Rooms
- Moderator: Karen Heikel (Montana State University Billings)
- Presenter: Victor Kobayashi (University of Hawai‘i, Manoa)
- A discussion, with audience participation, of various innovations that might make summer a very special period for students—including the use of online distance learning and special on-campus events.
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Group Problem Solving 1: Administrative Issues
- Wailea Room
- Presenters: Richard Russo (University of California, Berkeley) and Robert G. Mann (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Poorly administered summer programs, no matter how creative and exciting they might be, can be damaged irreparably. Excellent "customer service" and sound administrative policies, procedures, and practices are important determinants of the success of a summer program. Hence, it is important that summer session administrators take the lead in helping shape institutional policies and practices in ways that best serve all summer term constituents (faculty, students, and staff).
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Group Problem Solving 2: Budget Related Issues
- Kula Room
- Presenters: Vanessa Spencer (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) and Jessica Madrigal (The Johns Hopkins University)
- Well-managed budgets are crucial, especially in these tight times. They are the key to the overall financial health of the summer session operation, but also important to other institutional units who share the summer session financial largesse. As with everything in life... there must be balance (literally and figuratively) in the budget process! If you've got budget problems, your dollar doctor colleagues will be there to prescribe the treatment.
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Group Problem Solving 3: Program Development and Administration
- Napili Room
- Presenters: Lynn Burbank (University of Minnesota, Duluth) and Erroline Williams (Duquesne University)
- The first step in new program development is to know your market and know what is needed to draw student enrollments. The second key step is to culture academic and administrative investment in new programs so that others buy-in because they thought it was their idea to begin with. The last step in successful programming is to marshal the appropriate staff support and other resources needed to nourish new programs, as well as sustain older ones. The general concepts are easy – the devil is always in the detail. Bring your market research ideas, and enlist your experienced colleagues to help you identify and exorcise the demons in route to ironing out the details of successful program development and management.
- 10:45 PM - 11:45 PM
- Group Problem Solving 4: Strategic Planning and Interfacing with the Institution
- Kihei Room
- Presenters: M. Wayne Childs (Brigham Young University) and Renate Guilford (George Mason University)
- Improvement is all about strategic planning and assessment, so how do you do it? If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. So…what's in a plan? Lord Kelvin (1906) said that "you can't improve it if you can't measure it" and Jack Welch (former CEO of General Electric) said that "you get what you measure". So, assessment depends on measurement - measuring where you are, and being able to measure where you are once you get there. To what extent are colleges and universities adept at strategic planning? For that matter, how good are you at it? Come to this session and get some expert advice from those colleagues who are expert strategic planners.
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Group Problem Solving 5: Collective Bargaining, Faculty Salary, and Contract Administration Issues
- Hana Room
- Presenters: Marlys Boote (University of Iowa) and Claire Cross (Southern Oregon University)
- There are as many summer session faculty compensation, collective bargaining, and "teaching contract" policies and practices affecting compensation as there are stars in the sky. Come to this session and learn from the experiences of others about how they resolved and/or evolved new compensation practices or negotiated new collective bargaining agreements better suited to the needs of their summer term. Since contracts are legally enforceable agreements between two or more parties, when was the last time you took a faculty member to court when he/she reneged on one or more aspects of the agreement? Do summer session administrators issue "contracts" or in reality do they generate one-sided agreements with summer instructors?
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Group Problem Solving 6: Marketing a New Idea or Program
- Kapalua Room
- Presenters: Sue Day-Perroots (West Virginia University) and Allyson Morris (Regis University)
- One of the most difficult tasks Summer Session administrators encounter is creating and implementing effective marketing methods to promote a new idea or program. Whether marketing campaigns are paper-based, online, or involve "special events", the critical key to success entails up-front research. At the very least, thorough analyses of programmatic need; target audience demographics; potential or real competition; institutional resources available for academic delivery and student support services; should be carried out prior to program launch. With this research, as well as a complete description of the program in hand, the creativity begins. Marketing is matching the message with the intended audience in a memorable manner. Data collection on the effectiveness of message delivery is critical. This session will provide participants with a fantastic opportunity to hear from and interact with colleagues about marketing strategies that have worked (and ones that have not), and how your new program might be marketed to best advantage.
- 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
- Wrap-Up Round Table for New Administrators
- Wailuku Room
- Presenters: Karen Heikel (Montana State University Billings) and Loy Lytle (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- The NAASS Past President and President will meet with participants in the New Administrators' Workshop to poll them about what changes can be made in the workshop and conference program to better meet the needs of new administrators.
- 12:00 NOON
- NAASS 44th Annual Conference Adjourns
- 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
- NAASS Administrative Council Meeting
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