Breakout Sessions
Breakout Sessions represent the core of the conference offerings and feature a successful practice, program, or key issue. These sessions can be delivered via a single speaker or a small panel of speakers. PowerPoint slides are encouraged, and each session should include 10-15 minutes for Q & A interaction with the audience.

• Breakout sessions may be set classroom-style or theatre-style and can accommodate 40-100 participants.
• Breakout Session rooms are equipped with a laptop, data projector, speakers, and screen.

Make-and-Take Workshop
Make-and-Take Workshops bring faculty together to learn a successful pedagogical technique. Examples might include group activities that help students apply their learning, innovative assessment ideas, or innovative ways to incorporate technology in teaching. Demonstrated tools should be generic enough that they can be applicable to a wide range of subjects. 

• Workshop leader(s) present their technique to participants as though they were students in a classroom.
• Workshop leader(s) then help participants workshop the technique to adapt for their own use.
• Workshop rooms are equipped with a laptop, data projector, speakers, and screen.
• Sessions will be set classroom-style and can accommodate 40 participants.

Campfire Sessions
Campfire Sessions are small, informal, and conversational sessions designed to encourage peer-to-peer learning and group discussion. Some characteristics of a campfire session are: 

• A facilitator or group leader (limit 2) presents a topic for 15-30 minutes, then guides the group in discussion. 
• Campfire Session rooms will be set in a U-shape to facilitate discussion, with seating for no more than 30 individuals.
• No technology is provided. Facilitators may bring their battery-powered laptop, if needed.

Community and Workforce Partnerships: This track focuses on successful partnerships between educational institutions and industry, government, or non-profits.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): This track focuses on initiatives, best practices, and research that foster equitable and inclusive environments for diverse student populations.

Student Services, Support, and Well-Being: This track focuses on empowering student services professionals with strategies to enhance student engagement, support student well-being, and promote inclusive, equitable services that contribute to overall student success.

Student Success and Retention: This track focuses on strategies, programs, or research focused on improving student retention, persistence, and completion rates.

Teaching and Learning: This track focuses on innovative pedagogical strategies and student-centered practices, offering educators the tools and insights needed to enhance teaching effectiveness, foster student engagement, and improve learning outcomes in community college classrooms.

SPECIAL FOCUS TRACKS
Leadership and Governance. Submissions in this track will be considered for the Administrator Series, held on Monday, May 26, as well as for the general conference program. This track focuses on strategic, operational, and student-centered topics critical to institutional success.

Leading From the Middle. Submissions in this track will be considered for the Department Chair Series, held on Monday, May 26, as well as for the general conference program. This track focuses on preparing new and aspiring department chairs for the multifaceted responsibilities of academic leadership at a community college.