The remaining regional conferences are quickly approaching. Have you signed up yet? Don't miss these must-attend events for innovative learning and collaboration with industry leaders.
NACAS West Annual Regional Conference: June 3-5 | Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
NACAS East CX: June 17-20 | Saratoga Springs, New York
NACAS Central CX: June 24-27 | Kansas City, Missouri

As NACAS approaches its Golden Anniversary in 2018, we reflect on 50 successful years of working to create more productive and profitable services to enrich experiences for students worldwide. To recognize this milestone, we ask you to participate in The Campaign for the Future and help to support new NACAS initiatives, including benchmarking resources, training institutes, the NACAS Marketplace, and modernized member services.

May 15 | 2:00pm ET

You want to increase enrollment at your institution, but where do you start? One good place to look is within your own campus summer programming. STEM, freshman camps, and similar programming provide an opportunity for you to vet and recruit high-performing future students. Explore new trends in the campus summer camp world, learn best practices, and understand how to measure program effectiveness.

June 6 | 3:00pm ET

Are you having trouble hiring student employees? Are you having challenges retaining student employees? Generations change and today's student is a lot different than students were 10, 15, or 20 years ago. We'll go through changes that were made at Penn State and how you can take some of those ideas back to your units to make your own programs more successful.

June 7 | 2:00pm ET

Join NACAS CEO, Kelsey Harmon Finn, as she dives into what distinguishes great leaders from good ones using Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence skills as her guide. The summer is a great time to reflect on the school year and look forward to what lies ahead. What can you bring to the table this fall that will make this year better than last?

There are five components to Emotional Intelligence that help maximize performance and assist in helping you live life in the flow. Through understanding, practice, and persistence you can build upon and strengthen each of the five components to be a better leader.

The second of this five part summer series will focus on Self-Regulation: controlling or redirecting disruptive impulses and moods with the propensity to suspend judgement and think before acting. Join in to see how you can enhance your skills, making this year better than the last.

June 13 | 2:00pm ET

Perhaps you have been asked to lead the planning and execution of a campus-based professional association conference or maybe you are newly overseeing an established team of conference and event managers in your auxiliary services unit. In either situation, you may find yourself curious about where to begin when it comes to what it takes to plan a successful meeting, conference, or event.

This webinar will provide an overview of the critical steps in planning and executing an event from beginning to end, or "soup to nuts" as you may have heard a planner say casually when referring to their craft. Using a case study approach to examine three common scenarios – a multiple-day campus-based conference, a presidential visit to campus, and a board of directors meeting or retreat – attendees will gain an understanding of the full breadth of details that are behind managing meetings, conferences, and events successfully. From budgeting, emergency planning, and post-event assessment to catering, accommodations, and transportation coordination – this session will endeavor to provide you with a roadmap for future success in planning meetings, conferences, and events in a collegiate environment.

Similar to our old NACAS Talks programming, eXpress gives attendees the opportunity to explore the evolution of auxiliary services throughout the years, and discover future innovations and impact. Listen as the eXpress speakers uncover new, progressive, and sometimes unconventional ways to enrich the campus experience.

In her eXpress presentation, NACAS CEO Kelsey Harmon Finn will explore how campus leaders can leverage public and private partnerships to build the best student experience possible, meeting demands and fusing brands into all areas of campus to maximize partnership opportunities. The ways in which we approach this integration should be (and CAN be) different. We need to envision a merging of higher education and business that benefits all parties involved. Kelsey will address the future of the industry and how student experience is limited by avoiding the creation of robust campus partnerships. Higher education is not the end of the line for students; the work that we do prepares them for the real world and life beyond the classroom.

Keep your campus current and competitive with a CASP professional leading your auxiliaries. Certified Auxiliary Services Professional. The only benchmark certification that measures the needed competencies of college and university executives who oversee multiple auxiliary services.

Interested in CASP but don't have the cash to apply? Consider applying for the Hassmiller Scholarship to pay for the price of the application!

This certification offers an accelerated track to obtain necessary cross-functional knowledge and fills competency gaps to build confidence in new leaders and in those who hire them.