ASHE Call for Proposals

The 36th Annual Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Conference will be November 17-19, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina. This email is a friendly reminder that proposals for the 2011 ASHE Conference are due next week. We are anticipating our biggest conference to date!  

The full Call for Proposals is available online here: http://www.ashe.ws/images/CALL%20FOR%20PROPOSALS%202011.pdf.  

You may submit a proposal to one of 8 divisions of the general conference: (1) Students I: Learning, & Development; (2) Students II: Access, Success, & Outcomes; (3) Organization, Administration, & Leadership; (4) Teaching, Learning, & Assessment; (5) Faculty; (6) Contexts, Foundations, & Methods; (7) Policy, Finance, & Economics; and (8) International. These eight divisions are conceptualized broadly so that the wide range of research conducted in the field of higher education can be represented at the annual conference. Authors should be able to identify a division related to their topic, even if that topic is not explicitly mentioned in the descriptors for a particular division. 

Proposals may be formatted as research/scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, poster presentations, or symposia.

This year, we have instituted two different proposal deadlines:

  - May 3 at Noon EDT: All proposals for Students I and Students II must be locked.

  - May 5 at Noon EDT: All proposals for pre-conferences and other divisions must be locked.

You do not have to be an ASHE member to submit a proposal. All scholars of higher education and allied disciplines are welcome!

Proposals may be submitted online here: http://www.ashe.ws/?page=728.  Examples of successful (accepted) proposals from the 2009 conference are online here: http://www.ashe.ws/?page=718

Pre-Conference Activities will occur on November 16 and 17. We offer 4 pre-conferences: the International Forum, the Public Policy Forum, the Council on Ethnic Participation Forum, and Council for the Advancement of Higher Education Programs. 2011 marks the inaugural year for the Council on Ethnic Participation (CEP) Pre-Conference. This forum seeks scholarly and research proposals that engage issues of race/ethnicity, equity and diversity, as well as topics related to historically underrepresented, underserved, or marginalized populations in higher education.

The general conference will be November 17-19. 

More information is available online:www.ashe.ws/2011conference.html.