Friends and Colleagues,
AFACCT would like to invite you to invest some time during the fall to develop a proposal for the upcoming 30th Annual AFACCT Conference, January 9 & 10, 2020 at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Catonsville, MD. We will accept proposal submissions beginning August 19, 2019. The deadline for submitting a proposal is September 30, 2019.
The AFACCT 2020 Conference theme is “Global Learning: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future.”
This year’s conference focuses on how global education enables our students to develop an appreciation of our interdependency in sharing our local, regional as well as the world’s resources to meet our needs. It also concentrates on the community college system of Maryland’s commitment to playing a key role in providing our students the opportunity to succeed in a global society as they evolve into the next generation of leaders.
Topics that relate to the conference theme “Global learning: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future.” may include how one might:
- Review and discuss how global learning within the community college system has changed in time with the development of the internet.
- Demonstrate how service learning and global education assists our urban populations as we strive to enhance our students’ understanding of global problems.
- Enable our students to understand that we have a set of common problems shared on a global scale.
- Empower our 21st century community college students by developing their global skills.
- Develop our students’ respect for indigenous and foreign cultures using local resources.
- Make the classroom a center of global education reform.
- Review best practices to create a more supportive and inclusive campus environment for our international students.
- Understand the inherent problems of global education needed to enable our students to solve the problems of the communities they serve.
- Demonstrate how students make a local and global impact through global-scholar programs.
AFACCT is a faculty-run and faculty-organized association of full-time and part-time faculties from the 16 Maryland community colleges. If you teach in a Maryland community college, then you are an AFACCT member. We have developed and migrated our website to www.afacct.org. If you have any questions about the conference contact your campus AFACCT Representative(s). Your campus representatives’ contact information is located at https://afacct.org/contacts/.
Please consider sharing your expertise as well as teaching and learning experiences with your Maryland community college colleagues. At the 2020 AFACCT conference, you are invited to present on any topic your colleagues might have in interest in, as long as it is related to community college teaching. Because AFACCT maintains the conference fee low to cover the costs for food and supplies (early registration: $50.00 for one day and $75.00 for two days, until December 15, 2020), we are unable to waive the fee for the presenters. In most cases, your college will reimburse you for your participation in the conference.
To present a proposal, go to the AFACCT website http://www.afacct.org and fill out the electronic survey proposal form by September 30, 2019. Select a 60-minute presentation time period (including time for questions and discussion), or propose a Poster Display. This latter option is a static display of informative materials, which may include a PowerPoint slideshow or a web page; it is not a lecture or discussion. Poster displays must be staffed on both days of the conference for one session period (60 minutes) each day, so you may hand out materials and answer questions as conference participants visit the display. Direct link to proposals page.
Finally, I look forward to hearing from you, and reading your proposals. Your AFACCT representative will provide you with additional information, if needed.
Sincerely,
George Mateja, AFACCT Coordinator
Associate Professor of Biology
The Community College of Baltimore County
gmateja@ccbcmd.edu