I’ve booked my flight and am already planning my trip to Dallas for ASTD’s International Conference, May 19-22! If you’re a higher education professional attending the conference, I invite you to join other faculty, staff, and department heads for coffee, conversation, and lunch.

I hope to see you there on May 20 at the Higher Education Coffee Chat, Faculty Forum, and Networking Lunch as members of the higher education community gather. In addition to great conversation, this session will cover topics unique to the needs of ASTD members who are college and university professors and department heads, including mapping course curriculum to the new ASTD Competency Model. Preregistration is encouraged and seating is limited.

I also encourage you to build your schedule online and pay special note to the Higher Education Conference Track, featuring faculty and student session speakers and topics geared toward the higher education community:

• M103 - The Curious Place of Workplace Millennials

• Community Theater 4 - Developing Professionals: Integrating Essential Informal Learning Experiences Into Formal Curricula

• TU314 - Hijacking Technology to Increase Participant Engagement

• W216 - 18 or 50, They’re All Adults – Using Engaging Learning Methods

• W114 - Training Professors to Be Trainers and Vice Versa

I look forward to meeting many of you in Dallas and I encourage you to drop an email to me so I know to look for you there!

Cami Best-Jones

Community of Practice Manager

Higher Education

[email protected]