31^st Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience, February 17 - 21, 2012, San Antonio, Texas

o   The Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience is designed to provide educators from nearly every corner of higher education a comfortable, welcoming environment to share innovative ideas, programs, tools, and research critical to the first-year experience. The conference aims to promote a comprehensive and engaging community open to the diversity of ideas, in which all delegates are given the opportunity and resources to grow personally and professionally.

o   Concurrent session, roundtable discussion, and poster session proposals are invited on topics addressing the myriad aspects of the first year of college. Quality proposals that sufficiently and seriously address college student transitions in the first-year of college are welcomed for review at http://www.sc.edu/fye/annual/proposal.html. All proposals must be received by October 17, 2011. The conference welcomes graduate and undergraduate students to attend and participate, encouraging them to grow their knowledge of the academic communities that surround them.

Save the date for other upcoming professional development opportunities from the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition:

o   Online Course: Faculty Development for First-Year Seminar Instructors, April 2 - May 5, 2012.

o   25^th International Conference on The First-Year Experience, July 16 - 19, 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada

o   19^th National Conference on Students in Transition, October 13 - 15, 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

o   32^nd Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience, February 22 - 26, 2013, Orlando, Florida

o   33^rd Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience, February 14 - 18, 2014, San Diego, California