2022 Academic Affairs Summer Meeting
Campuses that are serious about helping their students succeed can no longer create solutions without meaningful input of students.
The 2022 Academic Affairs Summer Meeting—took place July 21–24, in Portland, Oregon— and explored the theme “Through the Eyes of Students: Leading the Student-Centered Campus.”
In recent years, colleges and universities, striving to be “student-ready,” have become more responsive to the needs of their students to help them succeed. As a result of this student success work, they have become more attuned to the voices of their students. As the student body on many campuses continues to be more diverse than the faculty, staff, and leadership of the campus, it is more important than ever to have reliable and consistent ways of listening to the diversity of student voices.
Who should participate?
- Chief student affairs officers
- Assistant and associate provosts
- Assistant and associate vice presidents
- Student affairs personnel
- Directors
- Deans
- Assistant and associate deans
- Department chairs
- Program coordinators
How you’ll benefit.
- Learn how to ensure student voices of all types are heard and their concerns are addressed
- Insights on involving students in design and assessment of curriculum and student success work
- Discuss ways to make sure that students feel safe expressing their views
Program highlights
Our program aims to explore and answer questions relevant to today’s students.
- What student voices are heard above others?
- How can you ensure that remote students feel connected and heard?
- How do campuses make sure that students across the political and ideological spectrum feel safe expressing their views?
- How do campuses make sure that students feel their concerns will be acknowledged and addressed
- How might faculty include students in the design and assessment of curriculum?
- What are the most effective and reliable ways of evaluating instruction?
- How do we involve students in student success work?
- How can student activism be considered as an important component of student leadership and citizenship?
- How might effective assessment be considered as a way of listening to students?
- How might listening to students help us address the student mental health crisis?
Schedule at a glance
Free pre-conference workshops give attendees the opportunity to discuss timely and important topics, and to gain actionable strategies. While completing your conference registration, please select the workshops you’d like to attend below.
12:30–2:30 p.m.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS |
Strengthening Democracy: Putting Students at the Center
This is a treacherous moment for democracy in America. The dangerous polarization and divisions that we see throughout our country are being played out on our campuses. Students are being asked to navigate an increasingly polarized landscape where they feel isolated and disconnected from democratic structures and where partisanship and misinformation impedes their ability to address key public policy issues and be fully engaged citizens. Join us as for a hands-on workshop to discuss strategies, programming, and resources to help you tackle the greatest challenges to our democracy and provide opportunities to engage students, so they are equipped with the knowledge, skills and experiences to be informed and engaged, ready to tackle current and future societal issues and create a more equitable democracy.
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Academic Program Evaluation: Impact on DEI
Facilitated by Gray Associates This session will summarize best practices in program evaluation and management and address an often-overlooked aspect of program evaluation: the impact of program choices on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will illustrate the demographic imbalances by program and their effects on student success and institutional finances. We will suggest a formula to track progress on DEI throughout the student lifecycle from admissions, through program selection, graduation, and employment outcomes. We will share a comprehensive model institutions can use to estimate the cost of implementing an equitable student success initiative and explore measurement of equity in your academic portfolio.
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3–5 p.m.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS |
The Pandemic Ripple Effects: Preparing for Long-Term Impacts on Student Success and Equity
Facilitated by EAB
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The Transfer Playbook: Strategies to Advance Transfer Outcomes Facilitated by The Aspen Institute Join experts from Aspen and AASCU for an interactive session in which participants will 1) reflect on the transfer student experience; 2) discuss and identify specific institutional and structural barriers that relate or lead to inequitable experiences of students throughout the transfer process; and 3) gain insight on practice reform strategies that can strengthen their transfer partnerships. The session will draw on evidence-based practices and lessons learned to date through the Aspen-AASCU Transfer Intensive. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of how they may work with potential two-year partners to improve and make more equitable the transfer student experience.
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8–9 a.m. | Registration |
8 a.m.–5 p.m. | Grants Resource Center (GRC) Private Consultations |
10 a.m.–2 p.m. | Things to Do on Your Own
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12–1 p.m. | Lunch |
12–1:30 p.m. | Chinese Embassy Program and Lunch Invitation only
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1:45–2:45pm | First-Time and New Member Attendee Welcome:
Getting the Most From Your AASCU Membership Refreshments served
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2–3 p.m. | Solutions Hub |
2:30–3 p.m. | Break |
3:30–5 p.m. | OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Learning From the Students We Serve: A Key to Student Success Work
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5–6:30 p.m. | Opening Reception |
7:30–8:20 a.m. | Breakfast for Provosts and Vice Presidents for Student Affairs: Key Takeaways From the Gates Foundation Postsecondary Value Commission Support provided by Stellic
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Breakfast | |
8–9 a.m. | Solutions Hub |
8 a.m.–5 p.m. | Registration |
GRC Private Consultations | |
9–10:30 a.m. | PLENARY SESSION
College Student Views on Free Expression and Campus Speech
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10:30–10:45 a.m. | Break |
10:45–11:45 a.m.
CONCURRENT |
How to Address Social Justice Through the Eyes of Students
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Placemarking: Redefining Institutions as Stewards of Place Through Data Support provided by Collaboratory
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Discovering What Works: Responding to Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs
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Successful Models in Student-Centered Adult Learner Education
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California Reconnect: Supporting California Students in Completing Their Degrees Support provided by InsideTrack
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11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Solutions Hub |
11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | Lunch |
Research on English Proficiency Tests for Admissions Focus group facilitated by Duolingo | |
12:45–1:10 p.m.
EXEMPLARY |
Global Literacy Talks: Creating Virtual Space for Student Advocacy on Issues Affecting Global Democracy
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Using JEDI Advisors to Promote Diversity and Improve Faculty Hiring Practices
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Student Success Equity Intensive Experience Information Session
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Supporting Critical Student Well-Being Needs Virtually Support provided by The Virtual Care Group
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1:10–1:30 p.m. | Break |
1:30–2:30 p.m.
CONCURRENT |
Implementing a Comprehensive Student-Driven, Campus-Wide Mental Health Plan
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A Student-Centered Approach to Academic Suspension and Readmission
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Process Mapping for Student Success
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Amplifying Student Voices: Enhancing the Online Learner’s Experience Support provided by Wiley University Services
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2:30–2:45 p.m. | Break |
2:45–3:45 p.m.
CONCURRENT |
The Advising Success Network’s Tools for Understanding Students and Integrating Career Advising Throughout the Institution
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Redefining Math Readiness for the 21st Century
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Words and Actions: Doing Things Differently to Achieve Equitable Outcomes
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Enabling Student Success at Fresno State: DISCOVERe Student Equity and Access Initiative
Apple Education
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Inside Higher Ed’s 2022 Survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers: A Conversation With Doug Lederman
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3:45–4 p.m. | Break |
4–5 p.m.
CONCURRENT |
Academic Planning and the Course Schedule: Harnessing Data to Ensure Program Viability, Equitable Student Success, and Financial Sustainability Support provided by Ad Astra
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Student-Centered Campuses: Why International Programs and Global Voices Matter
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Responding to Student Needs by Reorienting University Practices
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Flexibility and Resilience: Lessons From a Universal Design for Learning Community of Practice
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5–6:30 p.m. | Reception |
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Film Screening: “Personal Statement” (2018)
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7:30–8:15 a.m. | Breakfast |
Breakfast for Provosts at Minority Serving Institutions | |
Defining Success: Telling a Campus Impact Story Focus group facilitated by the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
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8–9 a.m. | Solutions Hub |
8–1 p.m. | GRC Private Consultations |
8–5 p.m. | Registration |
8:30–9:30 a.m.
CONCURRENT |
A Student-Centric Approach to Ideate on the Future of Higher Education: Value Chain Analysis
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Implementation of OERs in General Education Gateway Courses to Improve Student Retention in Higher Education
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Leading a Student-Centered Department: Tips for Academic Chairs
Chris Jochum, Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education, Fort Hays State University (KS) |
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Helping Learners Across Their Unique Journeys: Evidence-Based Practices and Strategies Support provided by Educational Testing Service (ETS)
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Washington Policy and Legislative Discussion
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9:30–9:45 a.m. | Break |
9:45–10:10 a.m.
EXEMPLARY |
Early College Faculty Development Program: A Resource for Connecting Potential Students to Campus
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Getting to Know AASCU’s GRC: Increasing Your Institution’s Grant Success
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A Student-Centered Approach to Early Alert Intervention
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Student Involvement in Institutional Decisions: A Model From UW-Stevens Point
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Integrate Your Academic Operations for Student Success Support provided by Coursedog Inc.
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10:10–10:30 a.m. | Break |
10:30–11:30 a.m.
CONCURRENT |
The Quality Initiative: A New Approach to Student Success
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Using ACE’s Learner Success Lab to Facilitate Institutional Transformation
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Re-Imagining Student Learning Experiences: Emerging Innovations in Collaborative Curriculum Design, Assessment, and Credentialing
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Centering Students’ Voices for a More Equitable University
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11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | CLOSING PLENARY SESSION
Scaling Equitable Student Success: A Conversation With National Higher Education Leaders
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1–6 p.m. | Group Optional Tours
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According to AASM Attendees
4.2 out of 5
Rating for relevance of topics and issues covered
4.0 out of 5
Rating for the quality of speakers
Meet our lineup of speakers.
Heather
Adams
Senior Program Manager at the College Excellence Program
Aspen Institute
Robert Gray
Atkins
CEO and Founder
Gray Decision Intelligence
Carlos
Ayala
President and Chief Executive Officer
Growing Inland Achievement
Prateek
Basavaraj
Senior Research Analyst, Student Success
AASCU
Brian
Bedford
Associate Dean, College of Continuing Education
California State University Sacramento
Andy
Benoit
Vice President for Enrollment Management
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Jerel
Benton
Associate Vice President for Student Success
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Daneen
Bergland
Senior Instructor
Portland State University (OR)
Don
Betz
Former Executive Director, International Programs and Global Initiatives
AASCU
Carrie
Billy
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Susan
Borrego
Former Interim President
California State University, Stanislaus
Jacob
Boucher
President, Associated Students of Washington State University Vancouver
Washington State University Vancouver
Lynn
Brabender
Director, Student Success and Service Provision
AASCU
Terry
Brown
Vice President of Academic Innovation and Transformation
AASCU
Randy
Bumpers
Assistant Director, Student Success and Learning Experience Design
AASCU
Pamela
Burdman
Executive Director
Just Equations
Demitris
Cambric
Executive Director for Academic Technology
Prairie View A&M University (TX)
David
Capranos
Director of Market Strategy and Research
Wiley University Services
Ramsey
Cardwell
Assessment Scientist
Duolingo
Kathleen
Cassity
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Western Oregon University
Amy
Chasteen
Executive Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
University of Southern Mississippi
Ben
Chester
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Coursedog Inc.
Adry Snorradottir
Clark
Director of Service Learning and Career Development
Western Oregon University
Jacqueline
Coomes
Associate Dean, College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Eastern Washington University
Catherine
Copeland
Director, American Democracy Project (ADP)
AASCU
Paul
D’Ascoli
Market Segment Executive
Apple Education
Leanne
Davis
Senior Director of Education and Training Services, The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice
Temple University (PA)
Armando
De Alba
DISCOVERe Project Coordinator
California State University, Fresno
Grady
Dixon
Dean and Professor of Geosciences
Fort Hays State University
Jody
Dixon
Assistant Director, International Education
AASCU
Bucky
Dodd
Assistant Vice President for Education Strategy and Innovation
University of Central Oklahoma
Kai
Drekmeier
Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer
InsideTrack
Kaitlin
Dumont
Director, University Partners
Kaplan
Tim
Edwards
Provost
University of West Alabama
Mildred
García
Chancellor
California State University System
Chaudron
Gille
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of North Georgia
John
Gillmore
Senior Learning Strategy and Design Consultant
LX Studio,University of Central Oklahoma
Junius
Gonzales
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Montclair State University (NJ)
Peg
Gray-Vickrey
Provost and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs
Texas A&M University-Central Texas
Kris
Greer
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Teacher Education
Fort Lewis College
Shawn
Hartman
Chief Operating Officer
Academic Search
Jay
Hatcher
Group Vice President for Business Development and Client Management
Wiley University Services
Deidre
Heistad
Professor and Executive Director, Undergraduate Studies
University of Northern Iowa
Lisa
Hunter
Associate Vice President for Academic Innovation and Transformation
AASCU
Susan
Jeffords
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Portland State University (OR)
Karoline
Jimenez
State University of New York at New Paltz Alum and Student Services Analyst, Strata9
Strata9
Chris
Jochum
Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education
Fort Hays State University
Jacquelyn
Jones
Assistant Vice President for Student Success
AASCU
Molly
Kerby
Assistant Provost for Institutional Effectiveness & Chief Diversity Officer Professor, Department of Sociology & Criminology
Western Kentucky University
Katie
Kinney
Dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences and Professor of Elementary Education
University of North Alabama
Tania
LaViolet
Director
Aspen Institute
Doug
Lederman
Editor and Co-Founder
Inside Higher Ed
Beth
Lesen
Vice President for Student Affairs
California State University, Long Beach
Sufei
Li
Assistant Director of China/Asia Programs
AASCU
Shannon
Looney
Senior Strategist and Consultant
AASCU
Justin
Mallett
Assistant Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion
Northwest Missouri State University
Kaley
Martin
Project Management Specialist
California State University Sacramento
Jeremy
Matula
Lead Engagement Executive
Duolingo
Pete
McCormick
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Environment and Sustainability
Fort Lewis College
Megan
McFarland
Digital Inclusion and Universal Design Coordinator
Portland State University (OR)
William J.
McKinney
Senior Advisor for Regional Campus Affairs
Indiana University
Kristin
Medlin
Director of Research and Development
Collaboratory
Kim
Middleton
Academic Strategy Consultant
Association of College and University Education
Kristin
Moser
Assistant to the President and Director, Institutional Effectiveness and Planning
University of Northern Iowa
Carolyn
Muller
Director of Business Development and Client Success
LX Studio,University of Central Oklahoma
Lindsey
Myers
Director, Learner Success Lab
American Council on Education
Jack
Nelson
Director of Partnerships
ReUp Education
Elise
Newkirk-Kotfila
Senior Director, Advising Success Network
NASPA
Sarah Wolf
Newlands
Associate Professor and Associate Executive Director of University Studies
Portland State University (OR)
Cheryl L.
Nixon
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Fort Lewis College
Felice
Nudelman
Associate Vice President of Academic Innovation and Transformation
AASCU
Peter O.
Nwosu
President
State University of New York at Oswego
Amber
Paulk
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate & Online Education
University of North Alabama
Patrick
Pease
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Geography
University of Northern Iowa
Emily
Pettit
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
The Virtual Care Group
Tanjula
Petty
Assistant Provost for Student Success and Special Initiatives
Alabama State University
Clarenda
Phillips
Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Samantha
Raynor
Assistant Vice Provost for Strategic Student Success Initiatives
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Bob
Reason
Associate Dean, College of Human Sciences
Iowa State University
Markya
Reed
Graduate Assistant With the Center for Democracy and Civic Life
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Xinyue
Ren
Instructional Designer
Auburn University at Montgomery (AL)
Melissa
Rivas
Director, Student Success and Coaching
AASCU
Steven
Robbins
Principal Research Scientist
ETS
Christine
Rodriguez
The New School Alum, Advocate, Community Member/Leader, and Public Speaker
Personal Statement
Jason
Shaffer
Universal Design for Learning Student Assistant
Portland State University (OR)
Lars
Söderlund
Department Chair, Associate Professor, Writing, English Studies Department
Western Oregon University
Kia
Sorensen
Academic Policy Specialist in the Office of Academic Policy and Authorization
Oregon Higher Education Coordination Commission
Costas
Spirou
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Georgia College & State University
Yolanda Watson
Spiva
President
Complete College America
Michael
Steiper
Acting Associate Provost & Acting Assistant Vice President
City College of New York, College of Staten Island
Ann-Marie
Stephenson
Senior Director, Business Development
ETS
Gretel
Stock
Dean, University College
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Domanic
Thomas
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment
Washington State University Vancouver
Erika
Thompson
Director, Grants Resource Center
AASCU
Gabriela
Torres
Senior Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Eugene
Van Sickle
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Programs
University of North Georgia
Shanta
Varma
Special Advisor to the Chancellor for Collaborative Partnerships and Distance Educations
Auburn University at Montgomery (AL)
Ed
Venit
Managing Director
EAB
Chris
Vieira
Leadership Executive
Apple Education
Mary
Wall
Director of the American College Student Panel
College Pulse
Registration fees
Attendee type | Early Bird Rate By June 13 |
Regular Rate After June 13 |
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Member Rate, Full Conference | $700 | $800 |
Campus Team Discount for Members (per person for a group of two or more from the same member campus) |
$600 | $750 |
Non-Member Day Rate | $600 | $700 |
Accommodations
Hilton Portland Downtown
921 SW Sixth Avenue
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: 503-226-1611
The hotel is located in downtown Portland, one block from Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall and two blocks from Pioneer Courthouse Square. Pioneer Place MAX Station is a short walk away for light rail links and the hotel is surrounded by popular Portland restaurants. Enjoy locally sourced produce in the hotel restaurant and Portland Coffee Roasters drinks at the hotel café. Pets are welcome.