TACUSPA Fall Conference 2011 - Free Faculty Registration Opportunities, Conference Highlights, Graduate Student Opportunities

Texas Higher Education/Student Affairs Faculty,


I hope your semester is going well! My name is Dr. Jennifer T. Edwards and I am the Vice-President for Education and Professional Development for the Texas Association of College and University Student Personnel Administrators (TACUSPA). On behalf of the TACUSPA executive board, we would like to invite you to our annual fall conference. This year's conference will be held Sunday, October 16, 2011 to Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at the Holiday Inn Townlake Hotel in Austin, TX. This year's theme is  "Reinventing Higher Education" and we would like to have a large faculty presence at the conference! For more information about the conference, please copy and paste the following link - http://tacuspa.camp8.org/Conferences.


FREE FACULTY REGISTRATION
This year, we are offering a FREE faculty registration for one faculty member at Texas higher education institutions with higher education administration programs. This program is limited to five faculty members. To take advantage of this offer, please let me know of your interest in the Free Faculty Registration program and I will send a confirmation to you.


CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
We are excited to have several well-known and distinguished speakers headlining this year’s conference including Dr. Stan Carpenter, dean of the College of Education at Texas State University-San Marcos,Dr. Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy, executive director of NASPA, Dr. Susan R. Komives, professor and program director of college student affairs at the University of Maryland and president of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education, and Lynn Rossi Scott, attorney and shareholder in the Ft. Worth law firm Brackett & Ellis.


OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR STUDENTS
We also have several opportunities for your graduate students to get involved in TACUSPA. Encourage your students to apply for a graduate student scholarship to cover the cost of the conference registration. We have attached it here. The application deadline is next Friday, September 16, 2011. There is a special breakfast for graduate students as well as the annual graduate student case study competition. The case study competition is a great opportunity for future professionals to demonstrate their knowledge and problem-solving skills and to work with graduate students from different programs across the state of Texas.


Fall Conference Scholarship for Graduate Students - http://tinyurl.com/TACUSPAFALL2011


Fall Conference - Case Study Competition Registration Form - http://tinyurl.com/TACUSPACaseStudyFA2011


***Also, I am actively seeking FACULTY JUDGES for the case study competition which will be held during the conference. If you are interested, please let me know!***


We look forward to seeing you at this year's conference. For more information, please contact Dr. Jennifer T. Edwards at jtedwards@tarleton.edu or 254-968-9638.


Sincerely,


J. Edwards


Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D. - Vice President of Education and Professional Development