All concurrent sessions are 45 minutes. This typically will include five minutes for introductions at the beginning, 25-30 minutes to present, five to ten minutes for questions and discussions, and five minutes at the end for concluding remarks and completion of session evaluations.
Two Educational Session Tracks for Your Presentation
All proposals must indicate one of the following concurrent conference tracks:
1. Global Collaboration: Reducing the Distance Through Innovation
Preparing students for international success through innovative collaborative solutions.
The theme for the 2017 ACBSP Global Conference and Accreditation Forum is focused on preparing our students for new forms of global business management- virtual/multi-forms, with active ongoing global collaborations. The requirement for international experience has substantially expanded over the last decade. Most businesses are now actually or virtually global through their ecommerce presence. More businesses of all sizes, whether domestic or international, are now operating with team members located all over the world, collaborating virtually thanks to new digital tools. This new paradigm means that not only will all business students need to understand global business, they will also need to do it more directly & concretely - while experiencing first-hand the international collaboration requirements.
Topics that might be a focus of presentations can include:
- Cross-institutions global academic curriculum management development
- Short-term study abroad offerings as part of a course (international business) or a program
- Virtual international business project collaborations for multi-institution students
- Global international internships
- New forms of students/faculty exchanges
- Hybrid program delivery, connecting students through technology
2. Accreditation Standards and Criteria Track
A call for educational scholars to share their expertise. Present at the global conference on the concepts of the ACBSP Accreditation Standards and Criteria, which are modeled after the Baldrige National Quality Program, Education Criteria for Performance Excellence. The standards and criteria present the leading edge of validated management practices that have proven to work in high-performing institutions of higher education to plan, perform, evaluate and measure results for institutional learning and sustainability. Please specify which Standard the presentation will be covering.
- Educational Leadership
- Strategic Planning for Business Degree Programs
- Business Students and Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Student Learning Outcome Assessment Processes
- Business Faculty Focus
- Education Design and Delivery
All proposals are peer-reviewed by representatives of the Global Business Education Committee. Authors will be notified of the status of their proposal and the committee's decision as either accepted without modification, accepted with modification, or not accepted. For a presenter to be considered, they must be from a school that is a member of ACBSP.
- Submitting a presentation implies that all authors listed in the program book and on the website proceedings will register for the conference. Authors not presenting can be recognized in the brief or detailed description (see submittal in response to Call for Presentations) and in the content of the presentation. Each accepted presentation entitles one author to a discount of 50% off one regular or advance conference registration.
- If the presentation is accepted, the main contact will register for the conference and receive the 50% discount as a speaker. More information on how to register will be given to you once you have been notified your presentation has been accepted. Individuals responding to this request for presentations are asked not to submit their registration until after they have been notified of their acceptance as an author.