General Questions
The proposal submission deadline has passed for the 2020 National Conference on Students in Transition. The call for proposals will open soon for the 2021 Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience.
We typically send out proposal decisions six weeks after the end of the proposal submission period.
The 2021 conference will take place in Seattle, Washington. For your convenience, we will have a room block available for participants at the conference venue as well. Reservation and conference registration information is posted to the conference page.
All of our finalized upcoming events are posted on our Events Page. Institutes rotate each year but tentative dates can be found on their respective pages. Finalized dates will be posted as soon as they are final.
In the event the conference venue no longer has vacancies, there will be a listing provided of other nearby venues on the conference main page. Unfortunately, the conference rate will not be available at these overflow locations.
Presenter Questions
A flipchart and markers, LCD projector and screen, and a head table for two will be provided for all session types except for Facilitated Dialogues and Poster Sessions. For Facilitated Dialogues and Poster Sessions, an LCD projector and screen will not be provided so as to promote discussion.
Laptops will not be provided. The laptop you bring for your session needs to have either an HDMI or VGA port to be compatible with the projectors for in-person sessions.
Please send the conference staff a digital copy of your slides and/or handouts after the conference by emailing them to fyeconf@mailbox.sc.edu. We will then upload them to our conference archives for others to access. If you have extra unwanted printed handouts at the conference, you may place them at one of the designated "Session Handout" stations throughout the venue.
Author lunch and dinner sign-ups are run through the individual vendors hosting those events. You can sign-up via their preconference emails or on-site at their vendor booth during vendor hours.
After you receive your acceptance email, you can edit accepted proposal applications through your account. Information can be confirmed or edited to reflect the appropriate updates.