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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS – Deadline to Submit Is September 14, 2025

Do you have an innovative practice or cutting-edge research you want to share with your colleagues from around the world? You are invited to submit a presentation proposal that focuses on best and promising practices that increase student success at community and technical colleges.

Presenting at NISOD’s Annual Fall Virtual Conference offers a range of benefits for educators:

  • Professional Recognition: Showcase your expertise and innovative practices in front of an international audience of educators and leaders in community and technical colleges.
  • Networking Opportunities: Connect with colleagues from across the globe, opening doors to potential collaborations, partnerships, and career growth.
  • Contribute to the Field: Share your research, teaching strategies, and leadership practices, helping to shape the future of higher education by providing valuable insights and solutions to common challenges.
  • Professional Development: Gain valuable feedback, learn from other presentations, and expand your knowledge on the latest trends and best practices in teaching, learning, and leadership.
  • Enhance Your Institution’s Visibility: Represent your institution at a prestigious conference, highlighting its commitment to innovation and excellence in education.
  • Presenter Perk: Presenters receive a complimentary conference registration.

Presenting at NISOD’s conference is an excellent way to make a lasting impact on the educational community while growing both personally and professionally.

To present at the NISOD’s annual conference, you must:

  1. Be employed by a community college, technical college, or not-for-profit organization or university, or
  2. Represent a conference sponsor.
  3. Be available to present any day of the conference: Wednesday, October 22; Thursday, October 23.

Live Sessions represent the core of the conference offerings and feature a successful practice, program, or key issue. These sessions can be delivered via a single speaker or a small panel of speakers. PowerPoint slides are encouraged, and each session should include 10-15 minutes for Q & A interaction with the audience.

All session formats are one hour.

Teaching and Learning: This track focuses on innovative pedagogical strategies and student-centered practices, offering educators the tools and insights needed to enhance teaching effectiveness, foster student engagement, and improve learning outcomes in community college classrooms. 

Community and Workforce Partnerships: This track focuses on successful partnerships between educational institutions and industry, government, or non-profits.

Equitable Opportunity and Outcomes: This track focuses on initiatives, best practices, and research that foster equitable and inclusive environments for diverse student populations.

Student Success and Retention: This track focuses on strategies, programs, or research focused on improving student retention, persistence, and completion rates.

Student Services, Support, and Well-Being: This track focuses on empowering student services professionals with strategies to enhance student engagement, support student well-being, and promote inclusive, equitable services that contribute to overall student success.

All conference sessions will take place in Zoom Meeting Rooms giving presenters access to:

  • Breakout rooms
  • Shared screens and whiteboards
  • Polling

All submissions go through a blind, peer-review process by a proposal review committee. Members use this rubric to evaluate proposals. Because this is a blind review process, anonymity must be maintained in the proposal or it will be automatically excluded.

2025 Deadlines

September 14, 2025
Deadline to submit proposal.

September 22, 2025
Presenters notified about proposal selections.

September 29, 2025
Presenters notified by email when their sessions are scheduled.

October 22-23, 2025
2025 Annual Fall Virtual Conference

Before submitting your proposal, we recommend downloading and completing a Word version of the proposal form so that you can do a spell/grammar check. Then copy/paste the information into the online form. We have also created a proposal writing guide with suggestions on how to make your proposal shine.

View slides from the NISOD Proposal Submission Best Practices presentation.