Example Proposals

Review examples of successful conference proposals from the 2023 conference below:

Special thanks to all proposal authors who agreed to share their work. The proposals listed below represent some of the highest ranked submissions from the 2023 conference.

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Proposal Type: Research Paper
 

• "Dual Enrollment and Conditional Credit Acceptance: Effects of Georgia’s Articulation Agreement on Timely Degree Completion" by George Spencer
• "Money isn’t Free: A Study of Influences on Grant-Seeking and Making at Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges" by Stephanie Aguilar-Smith, Erin Doran​
• "Examining the Relational Space of Native Faculty Members in Higher Education" by Stevie Lee
• "The Varying Impacts of Merit-Aid Policy Design on College Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation" by Xiaodan Hu, Justin C. Ortagus, Frank Fernandez, Kelly Rosinger, Dominique Baker, Robert Kelchen 

Proposal Type: Scholarly Paper

• "A Critical Historiography of Racialized Policymaking: The Case of the 1960 California Master Plan" by Andrés Castro Samayoa, Luke Brown, Marisa Lally, Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen
• "Futures Thinking and the Difficulties of Imagining Higher Education Otherwise" by Sharon Stein

Proposal Type: Self-Designed Paper Session

• "Using Multiple Critical Methodologies to Center the Experiences of Marginalized Community College Students and Faculty" by Cheryl D. Ching, Glenda Palacios, Jennifer M. Blaney, Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner, Chantra Nhien, Yang Li, Federick Ngo, Chantra Nhien, Kaitlin N.S. Newhouse, Emily VanZoest

Proposal Type: Interactive Symposium

• "Mentoring each other: Exploration of peer mentoring networks among Black women doctoral students" by Tyanna Arista Emefa Clayton-Mallett, Bridget Turner Kelly, Sharon L. Fries-Britt, Niah Grimes, Joy Gaston Gayles, Christine A. Stanley, Ashley L Gray, Stephanie Bent
• "Putting the ‘Afro’ in Latinidad: Interactive Symposium on Past, Present, and Future of AfroLatine/a/o Scholarship" by Marinel Martinez-Benyarko, Natalie Munoz, Claudia García-Louis, Jasmine Haywood, Ishara Casellas Connors

Proposal Type: Poster

• "A Systematic Review of Undergraduate Research Programs" by Daniel Corral, Margaret Constance de Leon
• "The Influence of Financial Aid Packages on Enrollment Decisions at a Large, Public, 4-Year University" by Caroline Neary