Do you have something to say about current challenges to academic freedom? Online education? Pedagogical techniques that really work? Strategies for improving working conditions or academic freedom protections for contingent faculty? Furloughs, cutbacks, salary freezes? Collective bargaining? Or other timely topics in higher education?
If so, we invite you to submit a proposal for the AAUP Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education, to be held June 12–14, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Proposals will be accepted through December 15. Accepted presenters, including co-presenters and panelists, must register for the conference and pay applicable registration fees by March 15, 2013.
Proposal Guidelines
We encourage proposals that raise questions, engage conference participants in discussion, and foster dialogue.
You may propose either a complete session, with multiple participants, or an individual presentation, with one presenter. Individual presentations, if accepted, will be grouped into sessions with other related individual presentations.
Complete sessions may consist of a set of traditional presentations (a panel presentation), followed by Q&A, or may be structured as a roundtable discussion, designed to encourage more audience participation.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Funding and defunding public education
- Collective bargaining in higher education
- The role of faculty in institutional decision making
- Faculty working off the tenure track
- The role of academic professionals in higher education
- Assessment and accountability
- The corporatization of teaching and research
- Race, gender, and sexual orientation in the academy
- The twenty-first-century curriculum
- Online education
Proposals on other topics of interest to a multidisciplinary audience are welcome.
Hotel Information
Mayflower Renaissance Washington DC Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Conference Deadlines
December 15, 2012: Final deadline to submit a proposal.
December 17, 2012: If you submitted a proposal by the November 30 deadline, you will be notified whether your proposal has been accepted. If you submit a proposal after November 30, you will be notified in January, 2013.
January 16, 2013: Registration opens
March 18, 2013 Deadline for presenters to register for the conference. Sessions will be cancelled if presenters have not registered.
April 5, 2013 Presenters will receive their time slots.
Rates:
Non-members who join the AAUP by June 7, 2013, will have the additional $50 registration fee refunded at the conclusion of the conference in when membership confirmation is received.
All Presenters must register by midnight on March 18.
AAUP Members $350 ■ Non Members $400
All Attendees must register by midnight on May 15 to receive the early-bird rate.
AAUP Members $350 ■ Non Members $400
Regular registration fee for attendees received May 16 through June 7.
AAUP Members $400 ■ Non Members $450
Online registration for attendees closes by midnight on June 8. After this date attendees must register on-site. On-site registration starts June 13 at the hotel.
AAUP Members $425 ■ Non Members $745
All presenters and attendees may purchase optional meal function tickets using the online registration through June 7.
Please note: If you have not received a confirmation of receipt of your proposal within five business days, please send an e-mail to proposalcall@aaup.org.
Questions? E-mail proposalcall@aaup.org.