Conferences

Northwest Student Leadership Conference: (March 2-4, 2012 @ Portland State University) Brought to you by the Oregon Student Foundation, NWSLC is currently in its 22nd year. NWSLC is the largest and most affordable conference of its kind and hosts close to 600 students from across the United States at Portland State University in partnership with the Associated Students of Portland State.

NWSLC Conference Application (.docx)
Application Deadline, February 6

Power-of-One Conference: (April 6-7, 2012 @ in Portland, OR) The Power of One is a  student leadership conference designed to encourage and empower lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning college students, their allies, and the faculty and staff who support them. The conference content seeks to enrich students’ lives and promote healthy and safe communities on our campuses and in our societies.

Power-of-One Conference Application (.docx)
Application Deadline, February 29

Students of Color Conference: (April 19-21, 2012 Yakima, WA) A two and a half-day conference. Over 550 students from community colleges across the state participate every year. Workshop topics include: Leadership development, ethnic, racial, and cultural sensitivity, academic success, identity development, strategies and skills for promoting social justice, intercultural communicaiton and understanding.

Students of Color Conference Application (.docx)
Application Deadline, March 14

Chick-Fil-A LEADERCAST: (May 4, 2012 @ Aberdeen, WA). This one-of-a-kind event will be broadcast live from Atlanta and simulcast into communities across the globe. Join more than 125,000 leaders from around the world and begin making choices that matter.  You can expect to be challenged. Inspired. Encouraged. You will learn how to improve your own leadership skills and also have the opportunity to network with other leaders in your area. You will see just how far your own choices could take you.

Application Available mid-January 2012
Application Deadline, April 13

Council of Unions & Student Programs Leadership Institute (September 5-7, 2012 @Wenatchee Convention Center) The Council for Unions and Student Programs presents an exciting student leadership experience.  This conference has been developed as a leadership conference tailored to meet the needs of our student leaders.  This conference has two primary focuses:

• To reduce the duplication of leadership training at our own campuses by assembling together a comprehensive leadership training institute. It provides the same leadership curriculum for all student leaders, rotating through tracks that include Ethics, Communication, Diversity, and Leadership Development.
• Finding regional local talent that fits a community college budget, to minimize the expense of traveling to future regional conferences that may not be in the Northwest, we include a programming element to the leadership conference to enhance our knowledge of regional local talent.

Legislative Academy:  Fall (Late October/Early November) The original 24-hour Legislative conference focuses on Legislative messaging and communicating with legislators in conjunction with other CTC constituents.

Strategic Networking Academy: Winter (Mid-January). This drive-in, half day training  is designed to strategically put student teams in place to talk about legislative and Student White Paper issues, anticipate upcoming hearings, and to strategically recruit students to follow legislative issues with the goal of increasing CTC Student Voice in the state legislature.

• Become oriented to the forthcoming State Legislative Session and build awareness about tools available for tracking issues and developments that involve the community colleges
• Develop a Legislative Action plan for your school
• Learn in teams how to strategize for specific legislative action based on your representatives and the legislative district of your college
• Increase student understanding of the legislative process for entire CTC system and increase civic engagement
• Connect students to roles of advocacy in all major CTC legislative initiatives
• Establish network for emergent student participation needs during the legislative session

Student Voice Academy: (May 11-12, 2012 @ Shoreline Community College) Opening the academy subsists of a panel to include a trustee, student services commission representative, state board staff member, and community and technical college president discussing the recent legislative session and critical issues that moved forward or died. Plans for the upcoming year will be shared. The Voice Academy is different from the Legislative Academy in that students will platform on vital issues, present to the group, and determine the top 3-5 central issues that will be developed into a white paper during the day and into the evening. The white paper will move forward to the State Board and other significant state groups for development and incorporation into individual college legislative platforms for 2010-2011. The experience will focus on real live issues and dialogue to continue during the 2010-2011 academic year.