Midwest First-Year Conference

September 25, 2015

Conference Schedule

8 a.m.

Participant Check-In and Continental Breakfast

Academic and Professional Center Lobby

8:30 to 8:45 a.m.

Welcome

Academic and Professional Center, Rooms 110B-D

Joy Sanders, Admissions Manager,
Waubonsee Community College,
Chair, MFYC 2015

Christine Sobek, EdD, President,
Waubonsee Community College

8:45 to 9:45 a.m.

Keynote Address

Academic and Professional Center, Rooms 110B–D

Vincent Tinto, EdD, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University, and Author of Leaving College and Completing College

Introduction by Dr. Denise Rode, EdD,
MFYC Committee Member

9:45 a.m.

Announcements

9:50 to 10:20 a.m.

Sponsor and Poster Sessions Showcase

Academic and Professional Center, Room 110A

10:20 to 11:10 a.m.

Educational Session I

Academic and Professional Center

11:20 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.

Educational Session II

Academic and Professional Center

12:10 to 1 p.m.

Buffet Lunch

Academic and Professional Center, Rooms 110B-D

12:50 to 1 p.m.

presentation

Rico Reed, Assistant Director for Administration and Resource Development, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

1:10 to 2 p.m.

Educational Session III

Academic and Professional Center

2:10 to 3 p.m.

Educational Session Iv

Academic and Professional Center

3:10 to 4 p.m.

Educational Session V: Pecha Kucha Conversation Presentations

Academic and Professional Center, Rooms 110B-D

4 to 4:10 p.m.

Midwest First Year Student Champion Award and
Closing Remarks

Academic and Professional Center, Rooms 110B-D