Call for Proposals

National Center for Student Leadership

Spring 2014 Conference

Hyatt Regency Atlanta - Atlanta, Georgia

April 3 - 6, 2014

Submission deadline: Wednesday, August 7, 2013

National Center for Student Leadership - NCSL calls on student affairs professionals, leadership educators, leadership consultants, and others who are experts in their field to propose conference sessions that will offer vital leadership skills and strategies to college student leaders and campus professionals. NCSL is currently accepting workshop proposals for the spring 2014 conference.

Submit your proposal using our online submission form by clicking here.

About National Center for Student Leadership - NCSL

National Center for Student Leadership - 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 thirty-five years, NCSL conferences have been bringing together collegiate student leaders and campus professionals from across the nation and around the world. 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 sharing common goals of enhancing their leadership knowledge and abilities to make a positive impact on student life at their campuses, and to make a difference in their communities. 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 percent of our conference attendees, with the remaining 20 percent 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 a National Center for Student Leadership - NCSL conference, attendees should be able to fulfill one or more of the following:

Identify areas of personal leadership strength and areas for personal leadership enhancement;
Define and practice skills which enhance effective, meaningful, and culturally competent communication and connection between individuals, organizations, and societies;
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;
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;
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;
Develop and utilize a network of peers focused on and committed to developing and improving campus communities;
List and define values that will guide actions, behaviors, and communications within the higher education and broader community.

Workshops

National Center for Student Leadership workshops are 75 minutes in length and take place on the second and third days of the NCSL conference. Workshops are required to be interactive and well-prepared. Workshops generally fall into four programming tracks with a focus on: 1) the individual, 2) group development, 3) community involvement, or 4) professional development (for collegiate staff). Sample topics include: communication, accountability, collaboration, conflict management, delegation, effective meetings, ethics in leadership, event planning, fundraising, leadership transitions, goal setting, team building, life after college—including resume writing and interviewing skills, marketing, motivation, problem solving, professional polish, public relations, public speaking, servant leadership, stress management, time management, and more.

For each workshop submission, you’ll need to provide the title, description, a minimum of three learning outcomes, and keywords that highlight the essence of the session. Workshop descriptions (not including learning outcomes and keywords) and bios should be from 100 to 150 words in length.

Conference Keynotes

National Center for Student Leadership 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.