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Call for Participation: Working Strategies Computing Support Conference
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernard Hecker)
Thu Dec 15 11:01:03 1994
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 10:48:39 -0500
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From: Bernard.Hecker@mail.cc.trincoll.edu (Bernard Hecker)
Call for Participation: Working Strategies Computing Support Conference
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[A Web version of this Call is available - just point your browser to:
http://www.uvm.edu/strategies/call.html]
Providing computing support in higher education means supporting more
users, more platforms, more new technologies. This explosive growth in
demand and scope, frequently combined with frozen or diminishing
resources, poses an extraordinary challenge for support services - and
the people who work there.
But there are ideas that work, ways to cope and even flourish. Share
your ideas at Working Strategies.
Working Strategies invites proposals for:
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Sanity Sessions: 60-90 minute sessions including panels, workshops,
forums, debates, or related papers submitted together.
Individual Papers: 15-20 minute presentations; related topics will
be grouped.
Pre-conference workshops: Half-day intensive sessions.
Proposals are invited both on general support issues and specific areas
of interest. Sample topics might include:
Day-to-day strategies:
- Managing help desks (without padding the walls)
- Supporting residence hall networking (and getting a good night's sleep)
- Designing, redesigning, and managing a CWIS
- Predicting and juggling printed and online documentation needs
- Providing mixed-platform and multi-generation support
- Moving computing technology directly into the classroom
Leadership and management strategies:
- Guiding your school's IT initiative (while still supporting WordStar?)
- Developing workable ethics and usage policies
- Balancing application development and basic support in an academic setting
- Planning future services accurately
- Managing change, and other miracles
Partnering strategies:
- Developing partnerships on campus
- Pooling resources across town, regionally, and internationally
Other formats and topics will definitely be considered, so feel free to
supplement these ideas with your own.
About the conference:
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Working Strategies is sponsored by The University of Vermont, organizers
of the successful 1991 and 1992 Computing Strategies Across the
Curriculum conferences. We are committed to offering an effective,
affordable, easily-attended conference featuring ideas that work.
Although the conference is aimed especially at the greater northeastern
audience (New England, New York, eastern Canada and surrounding areas),
participation from other regions is encouraged as well.
The audience for this conference includes academic computing and user
services staff and managers in higher education. Other potential
participants might include librarians, faculty, system programmers, or
departmental support liaisons.
Working Strategies is designed to provide a regional supplement to
the larger national computing conferences. The goal of the conference is
for participants to go home both with workable ideas and a network of
regional contacts. Registration fees will be kept as low as possible.
The conference program will combine keynote sessions featuring speakers
from past EDUCOM and SIGUCCS conferences, along with working sessions on
specific areas of interest. The expected keynote speakers are Greg
Jackson of MIT, speaking on ways to promote computer literacy and
problem-solving ability among users, and Bernard Hecker of Trinity
College, addressing ways to avoid and reduce burnout in user services.
To submit a proposal:
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Use the following form or create a reasonable electronic facsimile.
(Electronic submissions are encouraged!) Send your proposal by e-mail
to:
strategies@uvm.edu
or by surface mail to: Janet Cottrell, CIT Working Strategies, 238
Waterman Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0160 USA.
Proposals must be received by Friday, January 27, 1995. Include
the following in your proposal:
General information:
Name
Title
Affiliation
Address
E-mail Address
Phone
Proposal information:
Proposed title
Format (Sanity Session, Individual Paper, Half-day workshop, or Other)
Abstract (50 words or less)
Proposal (500 words or less)
Supporting materials:
Working Strategies aims for high-quality presentations, so please submit
any materials which indicate your experience or potential in giving
effective presentations. You might send your resume or vita (noting any
other presentations or classes you've given), samples of previously
published materials, testimonials, or even a video clip. These materials
are important for any proposal, but they are essential if you propose a
half-day workshop.
If your proposal is accepted, you must produce a paper to be included in
the conference proceedings. Papers will be due March 11, 1995, so please
keep this requirement in mind if you submit a proposal!
Questions?
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For more information, specific questions, or brainstorming, contact
Janet Cottrell at (802) 656-1216 or jrc@moose.uvm.edu.
