CSCC Conferences

Message from CSCC President, Trudy Bers

The 50th CSCC Conference, held in Philadelphia April 4-5, 2008, was a great success. One hundred and forty colleagues joined together for research presentations, roundtable discussions and exceptionally lively hallway conversation. Our first plenary session featured a video reviewing the Council and key events in our history, followed by small group discussions about current and emerging issues (and a cake with the CSCC 50th anniversary logo on top). Pam Eddy will be compiling results of the discussions. Our second plenary featured Estela Bensimon, professor of higher education at the University of Southern California, who talked about how scholarly and practitioner research, together, give a fuller picture of student experiences and success than either approach can do alone. Using examples from her research at Long Beach community college, she illustrated how important it is to talk with students and to observe the offices that provide student support services.

Next year's CSCC conference will be in Phoenix, AZ, April 2-4. Bev Bower, from Florida State University, is the new CSCC president-elect and will chair the conference.

A final note: I was privileged to work with an exceptional program committee and thoughtful proposal reviewers; we received many strong proposals. This is what makes our conference special. Thank you to everyone

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Convention Center
April 4-5, 2008 (with an opportunity to connect with colleagues the evening of April 3rd) for our 50^th anniversary conference - "Celebrating the past; Creating the future"

The 2008 CSCC conference planning team solicited proposals of four types. The first type of presentation is for a scholarly paper that draws from the literature and reflects on a topic relevant to the community college. The second is a research paper that reports on original, empirical research directed toward the field of community colleges. The third is a roundtable session that provides a discussion forum to advance, enhance or share information about a topic of policy, historical, practice, professional or theoretical importance to community colleges. The fourth is a program networking roundtable session that presents a description of an initiative to improve higher education graduate programs that include some attention to community colleges or that presents an issue related to the effectiveness of these graduate programs; the networking roundtables are intended to be interactive and to generate discussion on the initiative or issue.

2008 Final list of conference presentations

Past conferences:

2007 conference proceedings and presentations Tampa, FL
2006 conference proceedings and presentations Long Beach, CA
2005 conference proceedings and presentations Boston, MA
2004 conference proceedings and presentations Minneapolis, Minnesota
2003 conference proceedings and presentations Dallas, Texas
2002 conference proceedings and presentations, Seattle, Washington
2001 conference proceedings and presentations, Chicago, Illinois
2000 conference, Washington DC