 
Joint Conference 2008
Monday, April 7 to Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Renaissance
Asheville Hotel
Conference rate $129 per night!
Conference registration fee will be
$125.
31 Woodfin Street
Asheville, North Carolina 20081
USA
Phone: 1-828-252-8211
Fax: 1-828-236-9616
Toll
Free: 1-800-359-7951
Hotel rooms at the conference rate ($129/night) are
sold out for Monday and Tuesday nights! Some rooms still available for Sunday night. Tell
them you're with the NCAIR/SCAIR group!
We are particularly excited about the slate of speakers
for this year's conference. We will be opening the conference with a message
from Dr. Belle Wheelan from the SACS Commission on Colleges and closing with Dr.
John Gardner from the Policy Center on the First Year of College. As if that
weren't enough, we will also hear from Dr. Eric Dey from the University of
Michigan and Chancellor Anne Ponder from UNC-Asheville.
Scheduled Speakers
 Dr.
Belle Wheelan, President of SACS
http://www.sacscoc.org/president.asp
Dr. Wheelan currently serves as President of the Commission on Colleges of
the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and is the first African
American and the first woman to serve in this capacity. Her career spans 33
years and includes the roles of faculty member, chief student services officer,
campus provost, college president and Secretary of Education in Virginia . In
several of those roles she was the first African American and/or woman to serve
in those capacities.
 Dr.
Eric Dey, Associate Professor of Education, University of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dey/
Dr. Dey's research is concerned with the ways that colleges and universities
shape the experiences and lives of students and faculty. The central concern of
this work is in identifying the influence that different institutional
structures have on individuals, and the degree to which these influences are
dependent on the evolving context within which the enterprise of higher
education operates. As one example of this work, Dey was a member of the team of
social scientists tapped to provide research on the educational effects of
diverse student bodies; this work was foundational to the Supreme Court's
decision supporting the continuing use of affirmative action in college
admissions.
 Dr. John Gardner, Executive Director of the Policy Center on the First
Year of College
http://www.firstyear.org/staff/john.html
John N. Gardner is an educator, university professor and administrator,
author, editor, public speaker, consultant, change agent, student retention
specialist, first-year students' advocate, and initiator and scholar of the
American first-year and senior-year reform movements. He serves as the Executive
Director of the Policy Center on the First Year of College, funded by a grant
from Lumina Foundation for Education.
     
Mark your calendars now to join us for April in Asheville!
More details coming soon!!
 
 
 
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