An Invitation - Celebrating 25 Years
Since 1986, the International Conference on The First-Year Experience has been gathering educators from around the globe to explore approaches for enhancing the first-year student experience and highlighting the similarities in first-year students regardless of their country of origin. The conference is designed to foster intensive learning; relaxed interactions; and opportunities for sharing ideas, concepts, resources, assessment tools, programmatic interventions, and research results. We invite you to join with educators from countries around the world as we celebrate 25 years of enhancing and expanding the first-year movement across the world. Undergraduate and graduate students are also encouraged to attend and participate in conference sessions.
Conference Highlights
- Preconference workshops for focused and extensive attention to specific topics of interest to first-year educators
- Featured session with representatives from first-year movements from around the globe
- Opportunities to learn about the varied cultures of world-wide higher education
- A conference structure designed to facilitate networking with educators from around the world through colleague clusters, special interest group sessions, roundtable discussions, and social events
- Commercial and non-profit exhibitors whose products and services support first-year student success
About Vancouver
Vancouver, one of the world's most spectacular cities, was named "Top City of the Americas" in Conde Nast Traveler magazine's 2009 Readers' Choice Awards and the world's "Most Liveable City" by The Economist Intelligence Unit in 2011. Vancouver offers travelers both outstanding opportunities for outdoor adventure and the sophisticated amenities of a world-class city. Cycle or stroll along the Stanley Park seawall, a paved loop with magnificent mountain, ocean, forest, and city views. While in Stanley Park, visit the internationally acclaimed Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, one of North America's five largest aquariums. From downtown, hop on one of the small passenger ferries that look similar to bathtub toys as they cruise through False Creek to Granville Island, famous for its year-round indoor farmer's market, boutique micro-brewery, street buskers, artisan studios, and live theatre. While many people prefer to hike up to the top of Grouse Mountain via the Grouse Grind, also known as "Mother Nature's Stairmaster," an equally scenic (and less strenuous) option is to ride up on the 100-passenger tram, appreciating breathtaking panoramic vistas of the Lower Mainland en route.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Kerri-Lee Krause is pro vice-chancellor (Education) and professor of Higher Education at the University of Western Sydney. She works closely with a team of colleagues to enhance the quality of learning, teaching and academic quality across the University. Krause is nationally and internationally recognized for her research on the contemporary undergraduate student experience and implications for quality and standards in institutional settings. Her research expertise spans broadly across higher education policy areas, with a particular focus on the changing student experience, the evolving nature of academic work and implications for quality and standards in higher education. Krause has a commitment to evidence-based enhancement of institutional performance and quality improvement in higher education. She regularly provides advice to the sector on implications of her research for national and institutional policy and practice. She has managed several national projects including the national study of the first year experience in Australian universities and the Australian Teaching and Learning Council (ALTC) project on the teaching-research nexus. Krause currently co-directs the ALTC project entitled: A sector-wide model for assuring final year subject and program achievement standards through inter-university moderation. |
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