Session types

Concurrent Sessions
These 60-minute sessions allow for 30-45 minutes of formal presentation and 15-30 minutes of discussion. This session type is best for those wishing to make formal presentations with questions and interaction.

Concurrent session types:

• Concurrent Research (CR)
  These sessions are appropriate for presentations on quantitative or qualitative research that has been conducted on issues addressing student transitions.
  
  
• Concurrent Trends & Issues (CT)
  These sessions are appropriate for presentations addressing emerging trends, current issues and broad concepts.
• Concurrent Assessed Institutional Initiative (CI)
  These sessions are appropriate for presentations addressing and highlighting specific programs/initiatives that have been instituted, assessed and shown to be successful on a particular campus.

Roundtable Discussions (RD)
These sessions are designed to promote open discussion around a significant or major issue or theme. Rather than making a formal presentation, session facilitators will encourage and maintain substantive discussion. Roundtable discussions should not emphasize any one program or institutional initiative, but rather give all session attendees an opportunity to share ideas and learn from one another’s experiences. This session type is best for those presenters wanting to share ideas and gain information from other conference participants in an open forum. In order to ensure discussion, rather than presentation, no audio-visual equipment will be provided for roundtable discussions.

Poster Sessions
These sessions allow for 90 minutes of informal interaction with a large number of conference delegates. Poster sessions are presented in the form of an exhibit and delivered primarily through the use of visual display and handout materials. The poster session host should expect to make brief remarks, share information, and answer questions about the presentation topic. Numerous poster sessions will be scheduled concurrently, and conference delegates will be free to move from one poster session to another.

Poster session types:

• Poster Research Findings (PR)
  This type of poster session is appropriate for presenting research results focused on a specific topic or program.
  
  
• Poster Assessed Programmatic Approaches (PA)
  This type of poster session is appropriate for a presentation on a specific programmatic approach at a single institution.

Exhibitor Presentations (EP)
These 60-minute sessions allow for 30-45 minutes of formal presentation and 15-30 minutes of discussion. This session type is best for exhibitors wishing to make formal presentations with questions and interaction.