PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Upcoming NACADA and ILACADA opportunities!
NACADA Region 5 Chair Jaimie Engle, who you met at our NACADA event during Advisor Week, wanted to follow up with our advising community to provide the following information to use about upcoming NACADA and ILACADA events and ways to get involved:
- ILACADA Spring Log-In (virtual conference) is Wednesday, May 10th - https://ilacada.wildapricot.org/events
- Call for Proposals AND Registration Open! Flyers attached for both. Theme is “The Advising Office: Embracing Connections, Collaboration, and Care.” Encourage folks to submit! Doesn’t have to be in theme, but always helps if it is!
- Registration for this conference, unlike years past, is currently free! And it includes ILACADA membership for the next few months (which is otherwise just $25.) https://ilacada.wildapricot.org/event-5158986/Registration
- ILACADA Annual Conference will be this November at beautiful Principia College in Elsah! Just south of vacation destination, Grafton, on the Great River Road. Pere Marquette State Park nearby. Take a ferry to scenic Calhoun County! See bald eagles! Just north of Alton and St. Louis.
- ILACADA monthly virtual Brown Bags – 2nd Friday at noon! https://ilacada.wildapricot.org/event-5158986/Registration. These are usually just BYO_ (topic, snack, meal, beverage,) but sometimes they’re more structured presentations from guest speakers.
- The April Brown Bag will be April 14th, and the focus will be on info for those attending the upcoming Region 5 conference. Flyer downloadable!
- NACADA Region 5 2023 Conference in Windsor, Ontario April 26-28, at Caesars Resort! “Advising: A River of Possibilities.” Just across the border from Detroit (so you’ll need your passports!) https://nacada.ksu.edu/Community/Regions/Region-5.aspx
- Regular registration is now open! https://nacada.ksu.edu/Community/Regions/Region-5/Registration-Information.aspx
- Our very own Teri Farr will be deliver the Keynote!!
- The resort has a casino, several restaurants on-site, and a concert venue. Dane Cook will be performing that Thursday evening! https://www.caesars.com/caesars-windsor/shows
- And the exchange rate is really our friend! Rooms are just $159 Canadian! https://nacada.ksu.edu/Community/Regions/Region-5/Hotel-Information.aspx
- NACADA Region 5 monthly virtual Take 5’s – 3rd Friday at 11! https://nacada.ksu.edu/Community/Regions/Region-5/Take-5.aspx
- We’re taking a break for April since we have the conference, but will resume with the May Take 5 on Friday, May 19th (topic TBD soon.)
- Call for Proposals AND Registration Open! Flyers attached for both. Theme is “The Advising Office: Embracing Connections, Collaboration, and Care.” Encourage folks to submit! Doesn’t have to be in theme, but always helps if it is!