Innovation and Design So Every Student Can Graduate
June 12 - 13, 2023
Doubletree - Biltmore, Asheville, NC
The Symposium is now sold out. Participants may sign up for the wait list to join if space becomes available.
Gain New Knowledge to Apply to your Work!
An in-person experience focused on gaining new knowledge that you can apply to your work immediately. Participants will join plenaries, concurrent sessions and have the option to select one of four deeper learning tracks, led by experts from the Gardner Institute.
Choose One Focus Track to impact Student Success at your institution.
Teaching and Learning in Gateway Courses
This track is designed to support faculty and staff who teach or will be teaching gateway courses. Gateway courses, once termed barrier courses, are, by definition, often foundational (lower-division or developmental courses that serve as a pathway to credit-bearing courses); high risk (courses that yield higher rates of D, F, W, or Incomplete grades); and have high enrollments within, as well as across, sections (as defined by the institution) (Koch, 2017). Participants will be guided to apply what they learn in the track, as well as in the related concurrent sessions, to create a personal plan for course (re)design.
First Year
Want to “transform” how the foundations for undergraduate student success are laid?
Participants can expect to learn the concepts and practices that underpin a successful first year comprehensive plan in higher education. They will also explore not only time-tested strategies but how those strategies can be adapted and implemented to meet the needs of today’s diverse student population. The participants will be guided to apply what they learn from the entire experience to create plans for action(s) that they will pursue at their own institutions.
Transfer
Drawing on scholarship from the Gardner Institute’s recently published book, The Transfer Experience A Handbook for Creating a More Equitable and Successful Postsecondary System, as well as other national sources, track participants will deepen their understanding of ways to create and sustain transfer receptive cultures at their own institutions. The participants will be guided to apply what they learn from during the track, as well as the intentionally connected concurrent sessions, to create a set of plans for one or more innovative transfer transformation actions that they will pursue at their own institutions following the event.
Analytics, Assessment, and Evaluation
Participants in the Analytics, Assessment, and Evaluation track will gain an understanding of different methodologies to utilize data analytics and visualizations to create the environments that lead to more equitable student outcomes. We plan to engage with participants around use of IPEDS Data, Curricular Analytics, development of leading measures of student success, and other forms of innovative and immediately useful data practices in postsecondary systems.The participants will be guide to apply what they learn from this track, as well as the connected concurrent sessions, to create a set of plans for one or more data analytic transformative action(s) that they will pursue at their own institutions.
Early Bird Price (Ends March 31, 2023)- $545
Regular Price- $595
Room Rates - $179 a night.
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*Doubletree has limited availablity. The Hampton Inn has reached capacity. Book early to avoid disappointment.
Refund Policy: There will be no refunds given after April 15, 2023. All refunds will be subject to a 5% processing fee. Registration can be transferred to another participant before May 31st, no transfers will be allowed after that. Participants can switch tracks prior to April 15th pending availability, requests must be made in writing to events@jngi.org.
Who should attend :
Higher education thought leaders and practitioners from across the country representing 2-year, 4-year, non-profit, for-profit, public, and private institutions:
Faculty, academic administrators (chief academic officers and their staff, deans, department chairs),
Student affairs/ student success administrators and staff,
Librarians, institutional research and assessment practitioners,
Higher education focused researchers and journalists,
Presidents, chancellors, and trustees,
Students,
Foundation program officers,
State agency officials and higher education association staff,
Anyone who is interested in ensuring all students can graduate.
Call for Proposals
Please Note: If selected all presenters must register and pay to attend the conference and present at the time and place specified by the program committee.
Right of Refusal Statement: the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education reserves the right to refuse requests for any and all session proposals for all sponsored events that are not consistent with the organization’s mission and goals.
Tentative Schedule
June 12, 2023
7:30 - 8:30 am - Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 am - Plenary
9:30 - 9:45 am - Break
9:45 am - 12:00 pm - 1st ½ of Workshop
12:00 - 12:45 pm - Working Lunch in workshop room
12:45 - 1:15 pm - Break
1:15 - 2:00 - 4 Concurrent Sessions
2:10 - 2:55 - 4 Concurrent Sessions
2:55 - 3:10 - Break
3:10 - 3:55 - 4 Concurrent Sessions
4:05 - 4:50 4 Concurrent Sessions
June 13, 2022
7:30 - 8:30 - Breakfast
8:45 - 9:30 - 4 Concurrent Sessions
9:45 - 10:30 - 4 Concurrent Sessions
10:30 - 10:45 - Break
10:45 am - 1:45 pm - 2nd ½ of Workshop with lunch in workshop room
2:00 - 3:00 pm - Closing Session
Track Facilitators:
About Asheville , NC
The Gardner Institute Staff is happy to welcome you to beautiful Western North Carolina, the area that many of us call home.
With spectacular scenery, a vibrant arts scene, creative culinary options Asheville is a great place to learn and be inspired in. There's something special about Asheville. This thriving mountain city features a funky and eclectic downtown, 30-plus art galleries downtown alone, an amazing culinary industry, a thriving live music scene and, of course, the awe-inspiring scenery of the Appalachian Mountains. Staying at the Doubletree Biltmore you will be on the door step of the awe-inspiring Biltmore Estate.
