Program Track Information

Over 400 sessions provide opportunities to learn from your colleagues. Session formats include plenary, concurrent sessions, panels, table topic discussions, exhibitor demonstrations, and poster displays. Sessions are organized by track to help focus your learning or guide you to broaden your knowledge by sampling from all 6 tracks.

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Enhancing the Student Experience

Discover emerging research on student development.
Track 1 focuses on the student experience outside the classroom and in learning through community engagement.

More than 35 sessions on topics including:
First year students' behaviors and attitudes Retention Student success	Student support issues Characteristics of transfer students Student drinking behaviors

Learn new practices in assessing student learning.
Track 2 sessions include best practices in measuring and evaluating student learning with quantitative and qualitative means. Institutional effectiveness topics are central to this track.

More than 45 sessions on topics including:
Trends in majors Performance gaps Effective assessments	Remedial education At risk students

Enhance your research on faculty and academic programs.
Track 3 includes research on faculty roles, workloads, and research.

More than 20 sessions on topics including:
Faculty perceptions Productivity Retirement	Commitment Salary equity Gender equity

Develop a plan for success.
Track 4 encompasses research and practice related to campus-level evaluation and management for decision-making support, strategic planning, and organizational change.

More than 55 sessions on topics including:
Strategic planning philosophy Student enrollment issues Benchmarking peer selection	Tuition issues Swirling Successful completion of degrees Other campus issues

Engage in dialogue about issues that reach beyond the campus.
State and system-level issues, evolving public policy, data exchanges and consortia, and workforce and economic development initiatives integral to the higher education mission are among the subjects covered in track 5.

More than 30 sessions on topics including:
Student aid Fixed tuition Global and Economic Impact International reconstruction of higher ed	Data into action Migration and attainment Professionals in higher ed Costs and benefits of higher ed

Explore solutions to meet the challenges you face every day.
This track focuses on topics related to the practice of institutional research, including organizational, ethical, methodological, and technological aspects of the profession. Highlights include:

More than 50 sessions on topics including:
Running an IR office Using IR data for decision making IR tools	National surveys to assist an IR office Increasing IR knowledge