2005 Conference Daily Schedule

Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Region II Executive Team Meeting
Monday, Nov. 7, 2005
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Region II Executive Team Meeting
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. LAC opens conference office
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Region II Team Meeting
Region II Academy Participant Training
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Workshop 5: Foreign Educational Credentials Analysis
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Region II Academy Reception
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Region II Team Meeting
Conference office/tech room open
Conference Registration
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Concurrent Workshops:  
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Region II Academy Mentor Training
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. SEVIS Help Center Tours (3)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Box Lunch
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Exhibit Set Up
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Newcomers Session
5:30 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. Region II Academy Advisory Meeting
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Opening Receptions, Exhibits Open
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Conference office/tech room open
Conference Registration
Exhibits open
8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Region II Academy Advisory Meeting
8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions:
  • Labor Certification Update
  • Development of Intercultural Competence in Technology Driven Global
  • Planning Quality Short Term Study Abroad Programs
  • NAFSA's Web Site: New resources for International Educators
  • Suspicious - Using the internet to research diploma mills
  • Life in the RTI Lane
 
9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions:
  • Recertification Roulette
  • Coming to America: Update on Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  • The Development of Intercultural Sensitivity
  • Leadership in NAFSA: Ther's a place for you!
  • Educational System Updates: Armenia, Bulgaria and Uzbekistan
  • University/3rd Party Effective Working Relations
  • Teaching Linguistically and culturally diverse students: The role of the classroom in promoting cultural competency
 
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Plenary Luncheon
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:
  • What don't you get - the N or the O? Assertiveness Training for Patient International Student Advisors
  • Combine life or tap delay? How to... Tayloring partial SEVIS batching for your campus the XML way! AND oh the horror! Sharing SEVIS pitfalls... and possible solutions
  • TOEFL iBT has arrived! with integrated skills, internet delivery, and increased access
  • Share the love of international educational across campus: collaborative outreach and internationalization
  • Benchmarking Int'l Student Service: An Int'l Quality Perspective
  • GREASE, but not Rydell High (Get Ready to Evaluate Any Secondary Education)
 
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:
  • The Intersection of FERPA, HIPAA and 8CFR
  • J-1 Update
  • Particular SEVIS problems for IEPs
  • Short Simulations for Intercultural Learning
  • Advocacy town hall meeting for fobernmental "Hot Topics" affecting international education
  • Study abroad within the campus culture: Solving the challenges of a study abroad office
  • Admission impossible
 
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Region II 50th Anniversary Reception
6:30 p.m. Restaurant Hops
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Conference office/tech room open
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Conference Registration
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Exhibits open
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast - State Breakfasts
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Bi-regional meeting
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break
10;30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions:
  • Texas Takes Taxes by the Horns!
  • Give your students a compass - Planning and implementing an effective orientation program
  • The H1B to LPR Maze
  • Nomads Crossing the Global Divide
  • Electonic Database for Global Education
  • International Internships: Institutions in the Experiential
  • Becoming and effective international ally as an international educator
 
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:
  • Consular Affairs Update
  • Everything you always wanted to know about...CPT
  • Policy issues and considerations regarding hiring foreign
  • IEP challenges that drive DSOs to drink
  • You're hired. Get wired! An online new employee orientation
  • Crossing borders of higher ed; transferring from community college to university
  • Dispelling fears that students and their parents have about studying
 
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:
  • CYA:Cover your advising
  • Foreign residence requirement (212(e)) waivers or 212(e)eek! - Overcoming fear of the two year home residence
  • Namaste! Images of Nepal
  • Into the fire: strategies for surviving as a new international educator
  • Bologna declaration and changes in European education
  • Educational "Connections" using technology to prepare students for study abroad
  • Incorporating special status and disabled students into IEP programs and campuses
 
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Exhibits close, tear down
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Off-site event, Silent Auction
Friday, Nov. 11, 2005
8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Conference office/tech room open
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Regional Breakfast Meeting
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions:
  • F-1 Update
  • News you can use: Information for admissions officers
  • Optimizing international education offices through student employees
  • Changes that occur abroad: assessing student outcomes on short-term study abroad programs
  • Crossing Boundaries: NASFAA at NAFSA
  • Trends impacting recruiting in Southeast Asia
 
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Region II Academy Debriefing
11:30 a.m. Conference Closes
Conference office/tech troom breakdown
Region II Team meets to choose best of region sessions
10:15 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. SEVIS Help Center tours (2)
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Region III Team Meeting
Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Region III Team Meeting

Building location for rooms not in international Center or Colorado Hall:

Gold Kind Boardroom - South Building
Utah Copper Room - South Building
Palmer - Golf Club Building
Donald Ross - Golf Club Building