Call for Proposals

Submit Your Proposal to Present at the 73rd NCSL Conference
– Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, November 1-4, 2012

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2012

NCSL calls on student affairs professionals, leadership educators, and leadership consultants to propose conference sessions that will offer vital leadership skills and strategies to college student leaders.

Submit your proposal through the online submission form at: https://www.quickbase.com/db/bfbanfty6?a=gennewrecord

About NCSL

NCSL equips collegiate student leaders and their advisors with comprehensive tools to achieve their leadership potential and positively impact their campuses and communities through practical, focused training and opportunities to collaborate with other student leaders.

For over thirty years, NCSL conferences have been bringing together collegiate student leaders and advisors from across the nation. The NCSL conferences, held every spring and fall, feature a blend of keynote speakers and workshops focused on leadership enhancement and student affairs issues. Participants come with the common goal to enhance their leadership knowledge and abilities in order to make a positive impact on student life at their campuses. More than 1,200 students from over 200 colleges and universities will attend an NCSL conference this year.

Attendee Demographics

Students make up approximately 80% of our conference attendees, with the remaining 20% of participants being professional staff. The students in attendance are leaders at their college or university, often involved in student government, campus activities board, or other extracurricular organizations.

Conference Learning Outcomes

Following participation in an NCSL conference, attendees should be able to fulfill one or more of the following:

  1. Identify areas of personal leadership strength and areas for personal leadership enhancement;
  2. Define and practice skills which enhance effective, meaningful, and culturally competent communication and connection between individuals, organizations, and societies;
  3. Develop and refine skills and characteristics that advance the mission of the organization and college or university, while also increasing success as a student leader;
  4. Identify and implement strategies that leverage awareness and understanding about identity, diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice to improve both the campus community and the community beyond campus;
  5. Know, practice, and appropriately apply information, skills, capacities, and values in the effective, efficient, administrative operations of a student government, student committee, student organization, or other student living/learning/working group;
  6. Develop and utilize a network of peers focused on and committed to developing and improving campus communities;
  7. List and define values that will guide actions, behaviors, and communications within the higher education and broader community.

Workshops

Workshops are 75 minutes in length and take place on the second and third days of the conference. Workshops are required to be interactive and well-prepared. To make it easier for participants to choose workshops that will best serve their individual leadership needs, NCSL has created four programming tracks: Individual, Student Group, Campus, and Advisor. All of the conference workshops fit within these four tracks.

Conference Keynotes

NCSL offers 3-6 keynote opportunities per conference. Keynote presentations are generally 60 minutes in length. Keynote presenters are selected from the pool of individuals who have presented workshops at NCSL conferences in the past. To be considered as a possible keynote presenter, you must first present workshops at an NCSL conference.

Compensation

All accepted presenters will receive a free conference registration. Additional compensation is dependent upon the presenter’s past experience with NCSL and the number of workshops a presenter is facilitating.

Qualifications

Proposals will be assessed and rated on relevance, presenter experience, level of interactivity, and topic relevance. Presenters should be dynamic and engaging. We look for presenters that offer logical strategies and tools that can be implemented on campus.

National Center for Student Leadership