After the 2 scholarships sponsored by Higher Ed Experts for the High Ed Web Arkansas Conference last week (you can still participate in this little contest if you’re interested), I’m happy to announce 3 scholarships for the High Ed Web Rochester Regional Conference to be held on June 27, 2011 at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY.
Since this is a 1-day conference, the 3 scholarships, worth $150 each and sponsored by Higher Ed Experts, will cover the conference fee as well as some of your travel expenses (depending on where you are :-).
Co-chaired by Colleen Brennan-Barry from Monroe Community College and Lori Packer from the University of Rochester (who both have been working for the national heweb conference for quite some time), this regional conference has a great program.
HighEdWeb Rochester Attendees will even be able to win a $350 free pass for a future webinar series by Higher Ed Experts.
So, how do can you get a chance to win one of these 3 scholarships worth $150 each?
- First, you have to work for an institution (university, college, school)
- Second, you have to go to the conference as the scholarship checks will be handed to the winners at the conference (sorry, you won’t be able to use this money for your next weekend at the beach ;-)
- Last, post a 2-sentence comment (my version of the scholarship essay ;-) by June 9, 2011 to explain why you want to attend and should get the scholarship.
Winners will be notified via email and I’ll post an update at the top of this post on June 10, 2011.
2 more things:
- people already registered can participate.
- people who participated in the Arkansas Conference contest can participate as well.
We’re redesigning our ’90s era website. I want to learn from others in my shoes. Pick me!
There are several challenges / opportunities we are facing right now: a newly formed web production team, a relatively new CMS and multiple initiatives for realigning online content. Attending the conference would provide my team members and me an opportunity to network with other professionals in the higher ed web world, to exchange ideas, and to establish grounds for future collaboration.
As a keen new professional in the higher ed web field, I’ve been devouring as much information as humanly possible with the goal to eventually contribute to the industry as an innovative, creative thinker + do-er. That being said, attending the conference would allow me to continue to share with and learn from the awesome people that do what we do.
We face the challenge of currently having 4 distinct colleges/schools within our university and how to have consistency in our university branding while allowing for each college/school to promote their individual strengths. Attending the conference will help me to determine how to work with all constituents across our university on our website challenges by exchanging ideas, networking, and attending sessions.
As a recent grad and new full-time member of the HigherEd jungle, I’ve become fresh social media meat wrangling through the challenges presented in the constantly changing environment of new media. The conference program is chock full of resources and conversations that could ensure I don’t end up getting eaten alive, a phrase that no doubt extends my metaphor to its limits.
We’re doing our best to update our website, improve our social media presence and develop our communication plan, but limited money for professional development has stunted this endeavor a bit. All the topics covered in Rochester are very timely for our needs and it would be a great learning and networking opportunity if I, a newbie to higher ed web marketing, were to be able to attend.
The HigherEd Web community is the most altruistic group of individuals, always willing to share their collective knowledge. This makes the HigherEd Web conferences the most productive way to rejuvenate and refocus priorities and strategies.
(just read the hewebROC tweet about this scholarship today. I realize it’s late but wanted add my comment anyway.)