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
This year’s conference includes an enhanced strand focus on dual enrollment or early college. These sessions are designed for high school and college instructors who teach college-level courses to high school students. These sessions will provide specific knowledge, skills, hand tools for dual enrollment instructors and share genesis access resources and tools for their students. We invite you to submit proposals for this new strand. If you have questions about this new conference strand or need help writing your conference proposal for this strand, please email Dr. Shemeka Phipps (sphipps) or Dr. Jacqueline Peña (jackie).
Please review revised conference strands:
- Assessment of Student Learning
- Diversity and Multiculturalism (minority students, adult learners, English Language Learners, etc.)
- Early College/Dual Enrollment/Preparing High School Students for College
- 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.)
- Teaching and Learning Strategies in Disciplines (STEM, General Education courses, etc.)
- Technology/Online Education
- 21st Century Literacies
Early Registration Deadline: February 1, 2025
Registration ends on March 16, 2025. No onsite registration will be available.
https://www.tassconference.org/conference_register.php
(you must create an account to register for the conference)
Important Information for Presenters: All presenters must register online and pay the early registration fee by February 1, 2025. If a presenter’s registration payment has not been received by February 1, 2025, the presenter’s name will not appear in the program and the presentation will be cancelled in case there are no other registered co-presenters for that presentation.
Fees: The conference fee includes all conference materials; lunch on Monday and Tuesday; and a conference reception on Sunday.
- Early registration fee: – $519 (USA)
- Presenters from Florida institutions: $419 (USA)
- A fee of $50 (USA) is added to all registrations after February 1, 2025.
NEW! Group Rates: There is a group rate of $459 per person available for 5 or more regular (not otherwise discounted) registrations from the same institution. The entire group must be registered at the same time (contact Sharon McDermot at smcdermot to register a group).
NEW! Repeater Rate: $419 – To show appreciation to our loyal attendees, TASS offers a discounted registration rate to those who attended the in-person TASS conferences in 2023 and 2024.
Graduate Student Registration Rate: The TASS conference offers a graduate student registration rate of $319 (USA) for the full conference. The participant must register and submit a registration payment by 2/1/2025. You will be identified as a graduate student on a name tag and in the program if you are a presenter.
Questions regarding registration or payment? Contact Sharon McDermot at smcdermot.
Call for Scholarship and Award Applications
https://tassconference.org/conference_awards.php
Applications Deadline: January 6, 2025
Awards Announced: January 15, 2025
The Teaching Academic Survival and Success (TASS) Awards Committee is seeking nominations for four (4) awards to be presented at the 35th Annual Conference to be held in Fort Lauderdale, Fl, March 2025. The TASS conference highlights various techniques and teaching philosophies of educational specialists throughout the nation who have expertise in students’ under-preparedness and success in college and beyond. We are seeking nominations for the following awards:
The Graduate Student Annual Conference Scholarship is intended to support the professional development of those associated with learning assistance and student success in postsecondary settings. This grant provides selected individuals pursuing graduate education at either the Master’s, Ph.D., or Ed.D. level whose inquiry is related to themes of success for underprepared and underserved students an opportunity to attend the Annual Teaching Academic Survival and Success Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The scholarship will cover the cost of the registration fee to attend the conference.
The Outstanding Intellectual Contribution Award is awarded to an individual who demonstrates superior ability in research, writing, presentations or other intellectual contributions through published or shared work. To be considered for this award, the applicant may include articles in refereed journals or yearbooks, essays, monographs, and/or books published by non-vanity presses, as well as significant presentations, videos or other modes of disseminated information and knowledge that enhances the field.
The Harry Prats Outstanding Impact Award is awarded to an individual who has contributed significantly through teaching, research, and/or other such activities which have benefited students, supported peers, broadened the knowledge base, and/or enhanced the reputation of college student success.
The New Professional Award recognizes an emerging professional with one to three years of experience who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to serving underprepared and underserved students. This individual has exhibited exemplary performance, innovative efforts, and outstanding service that significantly impacts student success on their campus.
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.