Conference Theme
An Essential Investment: Centering Students in the Future of Work
Conference Tracks
Session proposals should align with the NCCCS Strategic Plan and fall within one of the following tracks:
Building On-Ramps, Recruitment, and Early Student Success
Sessions highlight strategies that strengthen pathways from high school to college and improve recruitment, onboarding, and early student support through personalized, modernized, and student-centered approaches.
Strengthening Student Success Outcomes
Sessions showcase efforts to improve access, persistence, completion, transfer, and employment outcomes through advising excellence, financial stability initiatives, meaningful student engagement, and comprehensive wraparound supports aligned with high-demand careers and bachelor’s degree pathways.
Teaching & Learning: Building Versatile Skills
Sessions feature approaches that develop transferable, future-ready skills through collaborative teaching, cross-departmental program design, integrated academic and workforce curricula, and innovative instructional models that prepare learners for multiple career pathways.
Employer-Aligned, Affordable, and Efficient Pathways
Sessions highlight strategies that align programs and credentials with employer and regional workforce needs while reducing cost and time to completion through partnerships, credit for prior learning, stackable credentials, transfer and articulation agreements, and coordinated pathways across K–12, NCCCS, universities, and workforce systems.
Leadership, Innovation, and Institutional Capacity
Sessions focus on leadership and institutional practices that strengthen colleges through responsible use of technology and AI, data-informed decision-making, policy implementation, and systems that enhance experiences, reduce administrative burden, and preserve local identity.
Submission Guidelines
- Each proposal submission represents one session.
- To submit multiple proposals, a new submission must be completed for each session.
- Presenters will be asked to indicate a preferred session type (e.g., concurrent session or workshop).
- While every effort will be made to honor preferences, the program committee may adjust session types as needed.
Deadline
All proposals must be submitted by March 31, 2026.
Session Description Requirements
Session or workshop descriptions must:
- Be no more than 100 words
- Be benefits-oriented, clearly describing what participants will learn or gain
- Be written in the third-person (e.g., “Participants will learn…”)