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Call for Proposals

The Texas Conference on Student Success Committee invites you to submit proposals for educational sessions for the 2025 Texas Conference on Student Success. The deadline for submission is 11:59 PM CST on June 30, 2025.

With the conference theme Charting Brighter Futures: Igniting Stellar Student Achievement Through Resilience and Innovation in mind, the committee encourages a wide range of topics, including but not limited to data and assessment, artificial intelligence, and wrap-around student success services.

Charting Brighter Futures. 2025 Texas Conference on Student Success

The conference will take place on October 29-31, 2025, on the University of Texas at Austin campus at the AT&T Hotel & Conference Center.

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Sessions

The Texas Conference on Student Success is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for higher education professionals to share best practices, discover innovative ideas, develop new connections, and experience diverse perspectives, all in the interest of support student success.

There are there three unique session types:

Big Idea Poster Session
Bring your bold ideas to this nontraditional, interactive poster session! Highlight an emerging theme or trend in student success that you’d like to explore and brainstorm with colleagues. These sessions are a great way to spark new conversations or share early-stage or pilot projects. Poster presenters are encouraged to design a poster with visuals that draw participants in–compelling graphics, infographics, and/or other engaging elements are strongly recommended.

The poster session takes place during Wednesday’s cocktail hour and presenters must be present during the session. Large pinboards and pins will be provided. The posters should be no larger than 40″ (H) x 50″ (H).

Round Table Discussions
Want to engage with colleagues around a focused student success topic or challenge? Ready to set the context and guide a meaningful conversation? Then, the Round Table Discussions are for you! Each session will last 30 minutes and should be narrow enough in scope to encourage rich discussion.

Round Table Discussions will occur in tables of up to 8 colleagues on Friday morning.

Concurrent Presentations
An engaged audience is a learning audience. Use this opportunity to share original research, highlight effective practices, or facilitate meaningful group dialogue. Concurrent sessions are interactive by design, and therefore, presenters are expected to include at least two participant engagement strategies, such as case studies, polling, scenario work, or other collaborative activities. There are three session types to be selected during the submission process:

Original Research: Presenter(s) overview their academic research and engage with audience questions or comments. Presenter(s) may choose to overview a current or recent publication or manuscript, or some may choose to focus on one area of a broader publication or project to gather feedback and/or share unique findings.

Practitioners Talk: Leaning into best practices, professional successes, and/or an inspired vision for student success, this session type invites presenters to engage the audience with big ideas that challenge audience members to think about higher education from unique perspectives.

Facilitated Group Discussion: An interactive, presenter-led session, which engages the audience in intentional and creative ways primarily through audience discussion. Consider that a round-table discussion (detailed above) may be more casual group discussion during a designated time, while a facilitated group discussion is intended to be long-form, structured, and interactive.

Guidelines

Proposals should:

Be clearly and professionally written.
List the desired outcomes for attendees and include an explanation of how they will be met.
Show evidence of how the content could be adapted at other institutions.
Focus on a topic that appeals current, timely, relevant, and provides novel information related to student success.
Integrates a collection of available ideas in a new or unique way.
Make a strong case for the proposed session type, with a compelling reason why it is the most appropriate of the available options.

Presenters of accepted proposals must complete registration by August 22, 2025.

Timeline

Call for Proposals Opens: May 1, 2025
Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Notification of Proposal Status to Primary Presenter: No later than August 8, 2025
Primary Presenter Acceptance Confirmation: August 22, 2025
Presenter Registration Final Deadline: August 22, 2025
- Early Bird Registration Deadline: Early September
Conference: October 29-31, 2025

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