Please consider submitting a proposal for the 2025 TASS conference.
35th Annual Teaching Academic Survival and Success Conference
March 23-26, 2025
SPONSORED BY NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, HAVERHILL, MA
HOSTED BY BROWARD COLLEGE, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
EMBASSY SUITES BY HILTON
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
Please visit our NEW WEBSITE and CREATE AN ACCOUNT: www.tassconference.org
Early Registration Deadline: February 1, 2025
Call for Proposals
(you must create an account to submit a proposal)
https://www.tassconference.org/proposal.php
Proposals will be reviewed on a continuous basis between September 1 and December 8, 2024. Notifications about the acceptance status will be made within a month of the proposal submission date.
We are inviting abstracts focusing on college students’ academic survival and success from the points of view of college faculty, learning assistance and student support professionals, administrators, and high school teachers.
Please review NEW conference strands:
- Assessment of Student Learning
- Diversity and Multiculturalism (minority students, adult learners, English Language Learners, etc.)
- First Generation College Students
- First-Year Success
- Graduate Student Perspectives
- Inclusion and Accessibility
- Institutional Strategy (administration, policy, student retention and completion initiatives, etc.)
- Learning Assistance and Student Support (advising, counseling, TRIO, tutoring, mentoring, coaching, career planning, etc.)
- Preparing High School Students for College
- Teaching and Learning Strategies in Disciplines (STEM, General Education courses, etc.)
- Technology/Online Education
- 21st Century Literacies
The abstract should be 200-300 words and include a clear purpose, methods or techniques, educational or scientific importance, learning objectives and intended outcomes, relevance to TASS audience, delivery style, session structure including audience interaction, results/conclusions and data sources.
45-minute presentations is the standard presentation format at TASS.
90-minute presentations (two subsequent 45-minute sessions) may be requested. Your Abstract will have to include a clearly explained rationale for an extended time. An example of a double time slot might be when an individual is presenting an innovative classroom strategy and wants ample time to have participants try out the strategy during the session. Another example could be a panel that would include three or more presenters focusing on one topic. You may also request a 90-minute time slot if you are planning to facilitate a focus group.
75-minute presentations is a suitable alternative between the standard 45-minute format and an extended 90-minute format. Your Abstract will have to include a clearly explained rationale for an extended time.
Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
· Targets students’ under-preparedness and success in various areas
· Contains innovative ideas and makes a significant contribution to the field
· Presents a practical skill/method/approach based explicitly on sound theory and research
· Provides an accurate depiction of learning objectives and intended outcomes
· Involves audience engagement and allows time for discussion, hands-on application, and Q&A
· Uses clear language to present the purpose of the session, methods/techniques, delivery style and session structure, as well as the other components of the abstract listed on the Call for Proposals page https://www.tassconference.org/proposal.php
Mission of TASS: Voice of the Practitioner
This is a conference for the serious practitioner who is passionate about helping all students, especially those who are underprepared or underrepresented, to survive and thrive in college and beyond.
This conference offers a holistic approach to academic survival from the points of view of college faculty, learning assistance and student support professionals, administrators, and high school teachers. This is the forum where they share lessons learned from evidence-based decisions and real experiences in the classroom, as well as tutoring, mentoring, advising, or counseling sessions.
It is for faculty, teaching student success courses and General Education courses in a variety of disciplines, who want to demonstrate and adopt effective, inclusive pedagogical methods that help students of diverse backgrounds learn.
It is for tutors, mentors, student success coaches, navigators, counselors, and advisors who share and learn from others best strategies in building our students’ academic and life skills.
At a time when there is rightly a growing focus on college completion, not just access, TASS is for administrators who want to share and learn new successful initiatives enhancing student engagement, retention, and graduation rates.
This conference is for reformers who feel an urgency to meet students where they are and give them experiences they need to grow and succeed.
TASS offers networking opportunities to meet new, like-minded professionals, from all over the country in small settings where substantial discussions occur and friendships are made.