| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Westin Team Planning Meeting |
| 9:00am - 8:00pm |
Hospitality Suite Open for Planning |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Registration and Information Center Open |
| 8:00am - 3:00pm |
Registration & Information Center Open |
| 9:00am - noon |
Executive Board Meeting |
| 9:00am - 1:00pm |
Hospitality Suite Open, co-hosted by Region I and Welcome to College.com |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
Regis University Campus Tour (30 minute travel time; 1 hour tour) |
| 8:30am - 11:00am |
University of Denver Campus Tour (30 minute travel time; 1.5 hour tour) |
| 9:00am - 1:30pm |
Colorado State University Campus Tour (50 minute travel time; 2 hour tour) |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Regis University Campus Tour (30 minute travel time; 1 hour tour) |
| 11:00am - 1:30pm |
University of Denver Campus Tour (30 minute travel time; 1.5 hour tour) |
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Lunch on your Own |
| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Faculty Orientation |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Pre-Conference Kick Off with Troy Selk |
| 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
Explore the History Colorado Center |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Keynote Speaker: Tamara Kleinberg |
| 6:30pm |
Dinner on your own |
| 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
Registration & Information Center Open |
| 8:30pm - 11:00pm |
Hospitality Suite Open, co-hosted by Region I and Welcome to College.com |
| 8:00am - noon |
Registration & Information Center Open |
| 8:00am - 9:15am |
Conference Orientation Breakfast/Ambassador Event (for all attendees) |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
IdeaJam Workshop with Tamara Kleinberg |
| 11:00am - noon |
Educational Sessions (6): |
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Ambassadors 101: Developing and Implementing a Student Volunteer Training
Program for Academic Credit (Student Workers) |
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Faculty Involvement in Recruitment: Why Is It Important? (Info/Visit Programs) |
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Pocket Change Produces Productivity: Teambuilding on a Budget (Development) |
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The Role of the University Visitor Center (Info/Visit Programs) |
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Supporting Athletic Campus Visits and Ensuring Compliance (Info/Visit Programs) |
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The Tale of Twenty-First Century Student Ambassador Leadership
(Student Workers) |
| noon - 1:15pm |
Regional Lunch (school pride/t-shirt exchange) |
| 1:15pm - 2:00pm |
Info Fair |
| 2:15pm - 3:30pm |
Discussion Circles (6): |
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How Do Schools Handle Requests from Large Middle and Junior High Schools to
Tour and Experience College Life? (Info/Visit Programs) |
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How Universities Make Their First Impressions — Collaborating on Effective, but
Inexpensive Ways Universities Can Welcome Visitors (Info/Visit Programs) |
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Let's Talk CIVSA! (Development) |
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Managing the Millennial (Student Workers) |
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Utilizing Current Students to Help with Recruiting Efforts — Hospitality Training
and Creative Recruiting (Student Workers) |
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VIP Recruitment, Identifying VIP Students, Strategic VIP Marketing Campaigns,
Specialized Individualized Events (Info/Visit Programs) |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm |
Educational Sessions (6): |
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Can You Get Me Some Coffee? Creating and Executing Mutually-Beneficial
Internship Experiences (Student Workers) |
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Good Call: The Value of a Student-Run Call Center (Student Workers) |
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No Boundaries: Welcoming Large Groups to Campus and Engaging Beyond your
Institution (Info/Visit Programs) |
|
Re-Visioning the Campus Tour Experience: How UConn Reconstructed Our
Prospective Student Recruitment Tour Program (Info/Visit Programs) |
|
SpeechCraft: Give Presentations that Change Things and Teach your Team how to
be Remarkable in front of an Audience (Development) |
|
Taking Your Tour Guide Training to New Heights! (Student Workers) |
| 5:00pm - 8:00pm |
Red Rocks Experience, hosted by CIVSA and TargetX |
| 8:30pm - 11:00pm |
Hospitality Suite Open, co-hosted by Region II and Welcome to College.com |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
Discussion Circles (4): |
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Effective Use of Student Staff in the Admission Process (Student Workers) |
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Group tours = a box of chocolates (you never know what you're going to get!). How
can we make the group tour experience consistently excellent for the groups and for
our teams (Info/Visit Programs)
|
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Keeping Information on Tours Consistent While Allowing Each Tour Guide to Have
a Voice (Student Workers) |
|
Let's Chat Visitation Programs. How are Your Days Structured?
(Info/Visit Programs) |
| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Educational Sessions (4): |
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Renew, Revive, Reenergize! Planning Events to Boost Office Morale
(Development) |
|
Standards and Student Learning Outcomes Scare Me! Won't They Just Make
my Work More Difficult by Putting Me on the Spot? (Info/Visit Programs) |
|
The Texas A&M Aggie Experience Council: How Financial Constraints Created
an Opportunity for Student Engagement (Student Workers) |
|
Urban Challenges — and their Universal Relevancy (Info/Visit Programs) |
| 11:45am - 1:00pm |
TargetX info session and CIVSA lunch |
| 1:15pm - 1:45pm |
Regional Meetings |
| 2:00pm - 3:15pm |
Discussion Circles (5): |
|
Admission and Athletics at Division III Schools: How do we Cooperate and Stay
Out of the Gray Area Division III Regulations Sometimes Create?
(Info/Visit Programs) |
|
Let's Talk CIVSA! (Development) |
|
Managing and Motivating Student Volunteers; Creating Student
Volunteer Programs within Visit Programs (Info/Visit Programs) |
|
Student Bloggers: How a Blog can be a Training Tool (Student Workers) |
|
Transfer Visits vs. First-Time Freshmen Visits (Info/Visit Programs) |
| 3:30pm - 4:30pm |
Educational Sessions (5): |
|
Creating a Content-Specific Tour: Highlighting Exceptional Areas of Your Campus
(Info/Visit Programs) |
|
A New Perspective on Ambassador PD&T: Confidence-Based Learning
(Student Workers) |
|
Not Just a Tour Guide: Developing Student Leadership Opportunities
(Student Workers) |
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Of course ALL students are VIP's! (Info/Visit Programs) |
|
Students Selecting Students: How Ohio State Uses Veteran Ambassadors
to Select and Train New Ambassadors (Development) |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Regional Event featuring SCVNGR |
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Dinner on your own |
| 6:30pm - 11:00pm |
Hospitality Suite Open, co-hosted by Region III and Welcome to College.com |
| 9:15am - 10:00am |
Info Fair |
| 10:15am - 11:15am |
Educational Sessions (5): |
|
Campus Ambassador Leadership Program (CALP): 10 Years in Review
(Student Workers) |
|
Counsel the Counselor: An In-Depth Look at Programming for High School
and Community College Counselors (Info/Visit Programs) |
|
Customer Service and the Role of Attitude in the Workplace (Development) |
|
Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Visitor Satisfaction & Student Learning
Leaders (Student Workers) |
|
Pardon Our Mess; Our Campus Visit Program is Under Construction
(Info/Visit Programs) |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Student Panel |
| 12:15pm - 1:00pm |
Market Lunch |
| 1:00pm - 1:45pm |
CIVSA Business Meeting |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Educational Sessions (4): |
|
A First Class Tour: Training Student Ambassadors Through a One-Hour Credit
Class (Student Workers) |
|
How to Make Your Information Session Sexy Again! (Info/Visit Programs) |
|
It's All Greek to Me: How Fraternity and Sorority Members Can Help Your
Visit Program (Student Workers) |
|
Mile High Service: Allowing Your Guests to Create Their Own Visit
(Info/Visit Programs) |
| 3:15pm - 4:15pm |
Closing Speaker: Eric Johnson, University of Georgia |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Networking Happy Hour presented by CIVSA and Campus Publishers |
| 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
Closing Dinner & Awards at Mile High Station |
| 8:30pm - 11:00pm |
Hospitality Suite Open, co-hosted by Region IV and Welcome to College.com |
| 9:00am - 12:30pm |
Auraria Campus Tour (30 minute travel time; 2 hour tour) |
| 9:00am - 12:30pm |
University of Colorado Boulder Campus Tour (60 minute travel time; 1.5 hour tour) |
| 9:00am - noon |
Executive Board Meeting |
