Sunday June 14th
- Best Practices across Turtle Island AND Regional Reflection and Planning Dialogue Sharing Circle
- Canadian Case Law Roundup
- Collaboration For a National Strategy on Accommodations in Post Secondary Education: Identifying Barriers and Best Practice Approaches
- Healthy Campus: The Pivotal Role of Student Services in Student Success
- New Directions in Strategic Enrollment Management
- Sink 'r Swim: The power of limitless thinking
- The value of values: Why we care about what we do
Best Practices across Turtle Island AND Regional Reflection and Planning Dialogue Sharing Circle
Leaders in the development of Aboriginal education will gather at NASSA's pre-conference session to discuss positive practices for student achievement. The morning session will include presentations and panel discussions to identify and promote an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of Aboriginal culture on campus, to share strategies to overcome difficulties which arise and develop a more inclusive social and academic environment. This is an unique opportunity to hear from the key players in the advancement of Aboriginal education, participants will take with them knowledge of what has been successful and hopefully what is to come to their own communities and institutions.
During the afternoon session NASSA members will share regional findings of their visioning gatherings.
| Division: | NASSA |
| Facilitator: | TBA |
| Time: | 9am - 2pm |
| Cost: | $75.00 (includes lunch) |
| Who can attend: | Open to all divisions |
| Attendance cap: | none |
| Location: | DAWB 2-101 |
Canadian Case Law Roundup
This session will provide an update on recent Canadian case law and administrative practice associated with student discipline and related issues. Our guest speaker from the law firm Hicks Morley will discuss emerging trends and issues faced by post-secondary institutions who implement administrative practices, policies and procedures, and implications for practice.
Canadian Case Law samples will be provided, along with a facilitated case study session. We will end our day by discussing best practices and considerations for moving forward.
This session is designed for anyone with an interest in academic and non-academic student discipline, including Senior Student Affairs Officers, student judicial officers, student advisors, academic integrity officers, and those who work in any capacity of student service.
By the end of this session, participants will:
- be informed on the emerging trends and issues faced by Canadian post-secondary institutions who implement administrative law practices, policies and procedures;
- review recent Canadian post-secondary cases that have been presented for judicial review and/or the Supreme Court;and,
- work through case studies
- discuss best practices and tips for professionals managing administrative law processes.
This session is sponsored by Hicks Morley, a Toronto, Ontario law firm that has served the College and University sectors for more than 30 years.
| Division: | CAISJA |
| Facilitators: |
Cheryl Gale-Bujold, York University Troy Brooks, Brock University |
| Time: | 9am - 12pm |
| Cost: | $75.00 (includes continental breakfast) |
| Who can attend: | Open to all divisions |
| Attendance cap: | 40 |
| Location: | BA 113 |
Collaboration For a National Strategy on Accommodations in Post Secondary Education: Identifying Barriers and Best Practice Approaches
There has been much discussion on the importance of sharing best practice approaches to accommodation planning within post secondary environments. In order to facilitate this opportunity on a national level, a workshop entitled, Collaboration For a National Strategy on Accommodations in Post Secondary Education, will be offered on Sunday June 14th from 9:00-2:00. Identifying barriers and solutions (or best practice approaches) will be discussed in a working café format. This is a topic that supports the strategic directions of the CADSPPE Board.
Emerging issues within the field of post-secondary accommodations for students with disabilities will be identified by the CADSPPE membership. Based on membership feedback, scenarios will be formulated to reflect the complexity of the issue(s) and will be distributed prior to the workshop. This will afford time to process and gather materials to share with colleagues from across the country.
A working cafe concept , where CADSPPE members will work in small groups on each of the selected topics, will be used to facilitate discussions and the sharing of best practice strategies. A facilitator (TBA) will lead the session, allow time for individual sharing, group feedback and identification of next steps in the national strategy development process.
| Division: | CADSPPE |
| Facilitator: | TBA |
| Time: | 9am - 2pm |
| Cost: | $75.00 (includes lunch) |
| Who can attend: | Open to anyone interested in attending |
| Attendance cap: | none |
| Location: | Senate and Board Chambers |
Healthy Campus: The Pivotal Role of Student Services in Student Success
The Healthy Campus model is a comprehensive way of understanding the necessary foundations and role of Student Services in advancing student success. With values of holistic health and community-building, this model guides all members of a higher education campus to value their contribution to the health and well-being of the community in order to support student success; and leads to developing natural linkages and shared goals within the entire community. The Healthy Campus model is Innovative in pointing out new ways to work and value our work, encourages and requires Integration within the entire campus, and is an Intelligent and systematic guide to the assessment and evaluation of programming. Student Services are the likely leaders in promoting and using this model because of their role in supporting student success.
Recognize your pivotal role in creating a Healthy Campus for student success at your institution. Attend this pre-conference with your institutional CACUSS and faculty colleagues for shared learning, meaning making, and common language development. Using well developed and proven national and international concepts, tools, and models such as the National College Health Assessment (NCHA); Healthy Campus 2010/20; Canada’s Population Health Promotion Model and the newly adapted model “Campus Population Health Promotion Model” (Patterson and Kline); The World Health Organization endorsed Health Promoting Universities documents; Vision to Action: Tools for Professional and Program Development; and, Learning Reconsidered 2, learn how to integrate these theoretical frameworks into action to develop and sustain a Healthy Campus at your institution.
Realize that you are already contributing to a Healthy Campus at your institution and discover other strategies necessary to achieve a Healthy Campus. Celebrate and share existing initiatives from campuses across the country. Develop strategies and skills to build on these successes. Identify who and how to engage stakeholders to contribute to and sustain a Healthy Campus. Be a part of creating a national strategy for all students to enjoy and benefit from a Healthy Campus at any Canadian post-secondary institution of their choice!
| Divisions: | COUCH / CUCCA / NASSA / SASA |
| Facilitator: | |
| Time: | 9am - 2pm |
| Cost: | $50.00 (includes breakfast and lunch) |
| Who can attend: | All members from CACUSS and divisions within are welcome and encouraged to attend. Having a Healthy Campus is an institutional responsibility and all student service professionals are in a unique position to contribute to and facilitate the transformation and sustainability of their campuses to become a Healthy Campus. |
| Attendance cap: | none |
| Location: | Paul Martin Centre |
New Directions in Strategic Enrollment Management
Discussions of SEM in the professional literature of higher education have addressed how colleges and universities could organize or structure themselves to better achieve their enrollment goals. However, the perspectives on optimal organizational structure vary widely. As the saying goes, ‘structure follows strategy’ in the same way as ‘form follows function’. An institution that has an enrollment strategy that places retention on an equal plane as recruitment likely organizes its EM functions differently from one that has an enrollment strategy focused almost exclusively on new student goals.
This interactive workshop will provide a brief overview of concepts and processes in the field, focus on elements critical to a successful SEM initiative and suggest possibilities for future developments.
| Division: | SASA |
| Facilitator: | Mr. Peter Dietsche, William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership Assistant Professor of Higher Education, OISE, University of Toronto |
| Time: | 9am - 1:30pm |
| Cost: | $50.00 (includes continental breakfast and lunch) |
| Who can attend: | Open to anyone interested in attending |
| Attendance cap: | 40 |
| Location: | DAWB 3-106 |
Sink 'r Swim: The power of limitless thinking
What makes simulation games work is the idea of agreement; the notion to create a shared story. We use simulations to remove the tendency to suppress ideas and instead, keep the “what if’s” alive. In doing so, participants create the conditions for spontaneous success which is a superb experience for recalling during regular business situations.
- Competing teams experience a very fast-paced interactive game that uses simulated real world business challenges, competitive analogies, raising capital, managing resources, pushing creative boundaries, and peak performance issues in dealing with a very dynamic arena.
- Program wraps with small team presentation and group learning regarding leading and inspiring regional teams and transferring best practices over spread out offices. It’s not about taking a chance! It’s about giving ourselves a great chance!
- What role does risk play in the game? What are the rewards for smart risk taking?
- You don’t get if you don’t ask. So, what do you want?
- The way I set it up, is how it ends up. All results are predictable!
- Key outcomes include learning how to walk the talk, cut across silos, and to think differently about what is possible.
| Division: | Big Fish Interactive Inc. |
| Facilitator: | Andrew Reid: Company Founder, and Lead Coach and Facilitator |
| Time: | 9am - 12pm |
| Cost: | $75.00 |
| Who can attend: | Open to anyone interested in attending |
| Attendance cap: | none |
| Minimum attendance required: | 50 |
| Location: | BA 112 |
The value of values: Why we care about what we do
This session will focus on how student affairs and services practitioners can incorporate their values about their work into their work. Based on PhD research, this session will include: a reflection on what participants feel passionate about and why it is important; a presentation on student affairs values and ethics literature as well as research results; facilitated discussion on how to incorporate values into practice; and case studies on managing situations that cause value conflicts. Validating people's values in practice is intended to be highly interactive and motivating.
| Division: | SASA |
| Facilitator: | Nona Robinson, Dean of Students, University College, University of Toronto |
| Time: | 9am - 1:30pm |
| Cost: | $50.00 (includes continental breakfast and lunch) |
| Who can attend: | Open to anyone interested in attending |
| Attendance cap: | none |
| Location: | DAWB 3-105 |
