Presenting at the MCCA Annual Convention and Tradeshow provides an opportunity to build your professional network and experience lifelong learning with lifelong friends. Presenting a session individually or as part of a team is a wonderful way to share knowledge, experiences, and ideas.

​The program will showcase future directions, best practices, stories of successful collaborations, lessons learned, and solutions to community-wide issues within various program tracks.

Session Formats

• Pre-convention workshops: 3-hour, hands-on sessions taught in classroom style
• Track presentations: 50-minute session presentations
• NEW! Lightning talks: High-energy 10-minute talks, presented to attendees in the Tradeshow throughout the day on Thursday. Presentations are introduced by an emcee to keep the program moving. The best lightning talks focus on one idea, big or small, and explain that concept or idea to an audience with varying skillsets.

Program Tracks

Select a track as it applies to the content of your presentation. Tracks are used in dividing the proposals up to go out to reviewers. The tracks are also used in the on-site program to help attendees decide which session they would like to attend.
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Student Success
The diverse needs and backgrounds of college students have challenged student services personnel to develop and implement some of the most innovative approaches to serving students.
  
Workforce Preparation and Development
A robust economy depends upon a highly-skilled workforce. As the key to restoring the middle class, community colleges must prepare American workers for the changing demands of the labor market. Sessions explore the many ways colleges are meeting the workforce needs of their communities.
  
Leadership and Institutional Transformation
Accountability mandates, fluctuating funding, demographic shifts, and the rapid pace of change continue to challenge college administrators to explore innovative strategies for leadership and organization.
  
Learning and Teaching (a special track for faculty)
College professionals continue to develop new and innovative ways of approaching learning and teaching. This session affords educators the opportunity to share their innovations with colleagues.
  
Future Workplace
Every day, non-teaching professionals work to advance the mission of our colleges and workforce partners by supporting faculty, students, alumni, visitors, and friends of our institutions. This conference stream brings together financial management and human resources, to communications professionals and facilities management to discuss innovation and forward-thinking initiatives that will impact the future and design of today’s workplace.

Presentation Title

• Your presentation title can determine whether you have a smattering of people attending or standing room only. (125 character limit)

Abstract Text

• This is the description of your session as it would appear in our printed and online program. Please describe what you plan to cover in your presentation, and what an attendee can expect to learn if they come to your session.
• Do not use special characters (including ampersands) or formatted text (bold, italics, underlining).
• If your proposal is accepted, we will work with you to edit this text for consistency and marketing purposes.

Elevator Pitch

• Pitch why your proposal is relevant to attendees. This is to help the selection committee better understand your proposal, and will not be shown to attendees.

Audience Classification

This information will be used on the convention website and mobile event app, not as part of the acceptance process.

• Administrative Professional
• Classified Staff
• Faculty
• Retired
• Trustee

Preferred Presentation Date

​Concurrent sessions are held Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13. The convention team will try to accommodate your preferred date and time, however these requests are processed on a first come, first serve basis. Additionally, we receive an overwhelming number of Thursday presentation requests. In order to better accommodate these request, we require a detailed justification of the reason(s) for a Thursday request.

Co-Presenters

Only co-presenters who will actually be in attendance should be listed. You may have many persons who worked on your project, but we list only those presenters who will be making the actual presentation. 

Audio/Visual (AV) Requests

Check only specific equipment essential to deliver your presentation. Technology should be utilized only when it significantly enhances the quality of your presentation. Please be conservative in your request and consider alternatives. Presenters must be capable of connecting their own computers to rented data projectors. MCCA cannot provide setup assistance to individuals at the conference.

If you experience difficulty submitting online, please contact the convention team at events@mccatoday.org.