Ad Astra's Users' Conference—Aspire 2017

From the Office of Classroom Management’s (OCM) Scheduling Unit, Bob Quinney, Christine Mounts, and Derrick Aly attended Ad Astra’s Annual Aspire Conference in Kansas City, Missouri that was held in October.

This three-day conference brings together attendees from all types of academic institutions and state systems to talk about scheduling challenges and business practice in higher education offering the chance to collaborate and share ideas with many peers.

Highlights of the conference included:

• Bob Quinney presenting on “Leveraging SQL and MS Excel Pivot Tables to Maintain Complex Scheduling Preference Sets”
• Christine Mounts presenting on “Users and Roles/Permissions”
• Educational sessions on how to use data to inform course offerings to create student-friendly schedules and advance completions
• Information about the future of higher education scheduling and technology
• Information on how to maximize campus space and resource allocation