Professional Development--Call for Proposals

Deadline: October 10, 2008
21st International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Sponsored by Pearson Higher Education. This meeting is for anyone interested in or already using technology to teach mathematics. There are hands-on workshops for those beginners as well as those who are experienced with technology. There are sessions on getting started, teaching with technology in the classroom, and using technology to enhance instructors' lives beyond the classroom. Website: https://secure6.securewebexchange.com/ictcm.org/pp_registration.asp.
Deadline: October 10, 2008
TACTYC -- Teachers of Accounting at Two Year Colleges

Teachers of Accounting at Two-Year Colleges (TACTYC) will host its 34th annual conference in Boston, MA in 2009. The TACTYC conference offers accounting educators such as yourself an opportunity to recharge and refresh your skills as well as network with colleagues from all over the country. The concurrent sessions will provide a rich variety of presentations, encompassing a broad range of topics of interest to accounting educators. For the 2009 conference, we are especially interested in soliciting presentations on the following general themes:

1. FARS Research
2. Integrating forensic accounting or fraud into accounting courses
3. Interactive accounting games sessions
4. Tips and techniques for Adobe, E-College, Camtasia, Blackboard, WebCT, Podcasts, etc
5. Sharing what works in financial, managerial, hybrid courses and course management
6. Enrolled agent and tax internship programs
7. State of the Profession, such as trends in accounting profession and education, updates on the computerized CPA Exam, Sarbannes Oxley, or taxation
8. Ethics
9. IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards)

Proposals should be between a paragraph and a page in length, and should include a title as well as your name and affiliation. Proposals can be made for a group or for an individual presentation. Please submit your proposed topic on this form or on the TACTYC Presenter Proposal Form located on the TACTYC website, www.tactyc.org no later than October 10, 2008.
Deadline: October 28, 2008 for Abstracts
2nd International Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2009

Deadlines: Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals: October 28th, 2008
Authors Notifications: December 18th, 2008
Camera-ready, full papers: February 11th, 2009
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All Submitted papers/abstracts will go through three reviewing processes: (1) double-blind (at least three reviewers), (2) non-blind, and (3) participative peer reviews. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those papers/abstracts that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal.

Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors will not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.

Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at each session. From these session's best papers, the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. www.2009iiisconferences.org/AG
Deadline: November 1, 2008
Union County College 75th Anniversary Academic Conference

The UCC Academic Conference Subcommittee solicits proposals for
complete panels and individual papers. Panel proposals should include
the following: 1) a cover sheet with the panel's title, the titles of
all papers to be presented on the panel, and the name, address, rank
and affiliation, and email addresses of the chair/commentator and
panelists (if they have been selected) and 2) a one-page abstract of
the panel as a whole.

The theme of the conference is "The Changing Dynamics of the Two-Year
College." The conference will provide a collegial forum for the
discussion of topics related to the changing world of two-year college
education. Its program will reflect scholarship on a variety of
subjects: pedagogy, historical perspectives and analysis, the history of
higher education in New Jersey, especially since the New Deal, New
Jersey authors and artists, reflections upon and responses to the New
Deal in New Jersey, classroom research, faculty development, student
assessment, the economics of the two-year college education, technology
in the classroom, socio-cultural, scientific, and mathematical
developments in education, health and medical education at the two-year
college, and other subjects related to the conference theme.

Individual paper proposals for twenty-minute papers should include the
following: 1) a cover sheet with the paper's title and the name,
address, rank and affiliation, and email address of the panelist and
2) a one-page abstract of the paper. All questions and materials
should be emailed to Dr. Phillip Papas of the Economics, Government,
and History Department at Papas@ucc.edu or to Dr. Susannah Chewning of
the English Department at Chewning@ucc.edu. The deadline for
submissions is November 1, 2008.
Deadline: November 28, 2008
NJ Council of Community Colleges 2009 Best Practices Conference

The New Jersey Council of County Colleges is accepting presentation proposals for its 2009 Best Practices Conference. Hudson County Community College in Jersey City will host the 2009 Best Practices Conference on Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24, 2009. Click here to download the 2009 Best Practices Presentation Proposal Form as a Microsoft Word document.

The Presentation Proposal Form is due by Friday, November 28, 2008. The Best Practices Steering Committee will review all submissions shortly after the deadline to determine the presentations during the Conference. Please follow all directions on the Proposal form. If you have additional questions, please call Marsha Stoltman of The Stoltman Group at (609) 588-8703, or send e-mail to marsha@thestoltmangroup.com.
Ongoing
League for Innovation in Community Colleges
The League maintains an open call for manuscripts for its monthly digital publications, Leadership Abstracts, Learning Abstracts, and Innovation Showcase. The editorial staff invites community college educators to share effective, innovative practices, processes, strategies, and programs with the field through the brief articles (1,500 to 2,000 words) featured in these publications. Click on the publication links below to access the guidelines for prospective authors:
If you have questions, please contact Cynthia Wilson at wilson@league.org or (480) 705-8200, ext. 238.

Ongoing
Innovate

Innovate, published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University, is an open-access, bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical focusing on the creative use of information technology to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and government settings. Editor-in-Chief James L. Morrison seeks manuscripts related to descriptions of technological innovations and their implementation; information on the newest IT educational projects, programs, tools, and trends; critical reflections on the changing nature of teaching, learning, and training with IT in the 21^st century; and concept descriptions that point to important new directions for research, product, and process development. Submit a manuscript for publication consideration by contacting James L. Morrison.