Conference news

Fall—in-particular, October—is a heavy time of year for conferences. Here are some of the larger conferences staff are participating/attending:

• Student Loans & Receivables Collection conference - 9/23-26
• Dreamforce 2018 - (Salesforce CRM annual conference) - 9/25-28
• 2018 Transfer Specialist & DARS User conference - 10/1-4
• Midwest Higher Education User Group (MidHEUG) Alliance 2018 - 10/11-12
• Ad Astra conference - 10/13-17
• Midwest Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (MASFAA)conference - 10/14-17
• Institute for Student Services Professionals (ISSP) - 10/21-23
• Tableau conference - 10/22-24

Midwest Higher Education User Group (MidHEUG) Alliance conference presenters
Numerous University staff are not only attending, but will be presenting at Midwest Higher Education User Group (MidHEUG) Alliance conference in October:

• Deep Dive into Google Data Studio Visualization: David Norman
• Gender Identity and Personal Pronouns: Stakeholders, Systems, and Implementation: Max Herman, Stacey Tidball, and Julie Selander 
• Veterans Benefits Implementation: Lana Rosario 
• Automating Single-Term Packaging: Ken Kiehm, Lindsey Konerza, and Stephanie Kearley 
• Oh Escheat! Please cash that check: Jack Kimmes 
• Ditching Delivered and Customizing the Student Financials Payment Plan: Sarah Hoegger
• Student Debt Letter Project: Lessons Learned: Ken Kiehm

Twin Cities will host Big Ten Registrar’s conference in October
Preparations are underway for the Big Ten Registrar’s conference, hosted this year by the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Registrars and records professionals from 14 schools meet annually to discuss an agenda made up of topics submitted by the membership. The goal of the meeting is to exchange ideas and best practices and tackle some of the hot topics currently facing registrars across the country. Previous topics have included graduation and retention initiatives, data governance, gender identity/preferred name/personal pronouns, and academic forgiveness, to name a few. Have a burning question for our Big Ten peers? Please send to Adrienne Bricker (abricker@umn.edu) by Monday, September 24.

Twin Cities will host the Big Ten Financial Aid Associate Director conference in October
Right after the Big 10 Registrars depart the Twin Cities, the Big 10 Financial Aid Associate Directors will be arriving on campus for their annual meeting. These meetings provide an opportunity to discuss with other Big 10 colleagues approaches to implementing federal regulations, new initiatives on campus, ways to support staff development, partnerships across campuses, best practices, and challenges we all face. Like noted above, if you have questions you would like posed to this group please send them to Michelle Curtis (mcurtis@umn.edu) by Wednesday, September 26.