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Call for Presentations Guidelines

Call for Presentations

Submission process closed October 17, 2011.

NACUBO invites you to submit a proposal presenting new approaches to topics relevant to business officers at colleges and universities. The NACUBO 2012 Annual Meeting offers an opportunity for you to showcase solutions, initiate provocative discussions, and share effective strategies to the many challenges facing campus administrators.

The theme for 2012 is "Looking Back...Leading Forward". Proposals will be selected to provide a program that offers innovative, comprehensive and diverse treatment of  issues facing business officers at all types and sizes of colleges and universities.  Topic areas we are looking to have addressed are:

• Accounting
• Athletics and Auxiliaries
• Endowment Management
• Ethics
• Facilities and Environmental Leadership
• Finance
• Human Resources
• International
• Leadership
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Planning and Budgeting
• Privacy and Intellectual Property
• Risk Management
• Student Financial Services
• Sustainability
• Tax   
• Technology

Proposals are being accepted for 75-minute concurrent sessions. Programming will occur Sunday, July 29, 2012 through Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Eight to ten educational sessions will run concurrently in two to three time slots per day.

Guidelines for Submissions

• Selected speakers are responsible for all expenses incurred in conjunction with the NACUBO 2012 Annual Meeting including registration, housing and travel.
• Each proposal must have at least one presenter from a NACUBO member institution. Any proposal that does not include a presenter from a NACUBO member institution will be considered incomplete.
• Proposals may be submitted and edited at any time until Monday, October 17, 2011 - 11:59 p.m. ET.
• Incomplete proposals will be deleted after October 17, 2011 - 11:59 p.m. ET. Incomplete proposals include submissions that do not include speakers with full contact information.
• Submission of a presentation does not guarantee participation in the program.
• Do not submit proposals unless each presenter is available to appear on any day of the annual meeting. Accepted proposals will not be assigned a specific speaking date and time until 2 months prior to the Annual Meeting.
• Do not list co-presenters without definite commitment that the co-presenter will be on the program. The co-presenter(s) must agree to all the terms and conditions for participation.
• Accepted presentations will be notified by January 31, 2012.
• All speakers must register for the meeting, and are responsible for the cost of their registration.
• Speakers must complete an acceptance form in order to be confirmed for a session. All speakers will receive an official confirmation letter.
• NACUBO reserves the right to revise presentation titles, reassign the identified topic area, or edit the session description of selected presentations for NACUBO promotional and program publications.

Some key considerations as you prepare your proposal:

• Proposal abstract should be a brief one-paragraph summary of the presentation as it would appear in the conference program guide.
• Include as much detail as possible about the presentation in your description.
• Include 3 learning objectives or audience takeaways in your description.
• Gear the presentation towards an audience at the intermediate to advanced level of understanding, rather than basic treatments or overviews.
• Content submitted for this program may also be considered for publications, online learning programs, poster sessions, or other conferences/workshops.

NACUBO continues to focus on programming of interest to institutions of similar type and size.  If your presentation specifically addresses the needs of a particular group, we encourage you to indicate this by adding the appropriate constituent group(s) in the keyword field. The four constituent groups are:

• Community Colleges: Two-year public institutions
• Comprehensive/Doctoral Institutions: Four-year public and independent institutions with enrollments above 3,000; Carnegie class - Masters colleges and universities, doctoral universities
• Research Universities: Public and independent research universities, medical schools
• Small Institutions: Four-year public and independent institutions with enrollments fewer than 3,000; also includes two-year independent colleges and independent secondary schools.

To see proposal samples, click here.