CFP
SIGUCCS 2023: 2023 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference TBA Chicago, IL, United States, March 26-29, 2023 |
Conference website | https://siguccs.org/Conference/2023/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siguccs23 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 22, 2022 |
Presenters notified | August 1, 2022 |
Submission deadline | September 30, 2022 |
Conference registration opens | November 1, 2022 |
SIGUCCS is an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services. SIGUCCS conference events and activities focus on the issues surrounding the support, delivery, and management of college and university information technology services. We invite your proposals for presentations, posters, facilitiated discussions, and panels.
Submission Guidelines
Author initial submissions will include:
- Program Track (select from Leadership Development, Technology Topics, or Operational Excellence)
- 200-500 word abstract
- Three keywords to include in the conference schedule to help attendees fine-tune their session selections
- Desired Presentation Formats (you can select more than one)
- Intended Audience
- Key Takeaways for attendees
- Brief Presenter bio.
Accepted authors will have the opportunity to submit a 2-6 page paper in the ACM format. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Experienced peer-review editors will assist you in publication steps.
Tracks and Suggested Topics
- Leadership Development
- strategic planning
- career development
- data-driven decision making
- DEI topics in higher education
- any other leadership or management topics
- Technology Topics
- focusing on specific technologies and their implementations, upgrades, or migrations
- Any technology platform is fair game, from active directory, networking, service desk, LMS, MDM platforms
- Operational Excellence
- focusing on ways to provide excellent customer service
- training and documentation, web site updates
- ensuring our services and facilities are accessible to all students
- knowledge base implementation
- supporting a student workforce
Presentation Formats
- Presentation (50 minutes) – standard presentation format with opportunity for question and answer.
- Panel (50 minutes) – these sessions focus around a topic of interest; presenters from more than one school offer insight and lead discussion around that topic.
- Poster – an open forum where multiple topics are presented in poster format. Authors are available to answer questions as attendees visit each poster.
- Lightning Talks (~7 minutes) – presenters have 7 minutes to present their topic. Two minutes of Q&A follows each presenter. Presenters are encouraged to be creative with the medium.
- DiscussIT (Birds of a Feather) (50 minutes) – A facilitated discussion where the presenter(s) lead a group discussion on a topic. These offer attendees the opportunity to meet people using similar technologies or facing similar issues on their campuses.
- Hands-on (50 minutes) - Assists or guides attendees through the use of and examples of using a specific skill, tool, or platform.
Committees
Program Co-Chairs
- Miranda Carney-Morris, Lewis & Clark College
- Shawn Plummer, SUNY Geneseo
Organizing committee
- Laurie Fox, SUNY Geneseo, conference chair
- Parrish Nnambi, University of California San Diego, treasurer
- Eric Handler, Macalester College, SIGUCCS Executive Committee liaison