CALL for PROPOSALS
Building Bridges Conference
24 February 2012
8:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Four Points Sheraton

We invite you to submit a proposal for a 45-minute session at this gathering of extraordinary minds.
This professional development event provides us, as college educators, with the opportunity to learn and share our teaching successes with one another. As a dedicated professional, you have developed and refined many instructional strategies and materials that have benefited you and, more importantly, your students. In sharing one or more of these approaches, you will assist your colleagues in their quest to enhance student academic success. 

Possible Topics:
First-Year Experience, Basic Skills, English-as-a-Second-Language, Technology in the Classroom, Responding to Papers, Teaching Research, Reading Rhetorically, Critical Thinking, Learning Disabilities, 
Coping with Student Attitudes, or any topic related to teaching composition, literature, or ESL. Panel presentations, especially with faculty from other campuses, are well-received by BBC participants.

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The hotel offers free wireless access. Bringing your own laptop and projector will help us keep costs down. Screens will be provided.		
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Session Preference (rank): ____ 9:30 to 10:20  ______1:10 to 2:00 _____ 2:30 to 3:20
Every effort will be made to accommodate your choice with the overall program needs.
For more information, contact your campus representative on the Planning Committee (attached). 
Please send proposal electronically to buildingbridges@csub.edu 13 February 2012.
Let’s make this another superb conference!

Building Bridges Planning Committee Members

	Bakersfield College		Pam Boyles, pboyles@bakerfieldcollege.edu
				Sheena Bhogal, sbhogal@bakersfieldcollege.edu
				Brenda Freaney, bfreaney@bakersfieldcollege.edu
				Jeannie Parent, jparent@bakersfieldcollege.edu
				Kate Pluta, kpluta@bakersfieldcollege.edu
				Kim Van Horne, kvan@bakersfieldcollege.edu

	CSUB		Jan Titus, jantitus@csub.edu
				Kim Flachmann, kflachmann@csub.edu
				Laura Peet, lpeet@csub.edu
				Rebecca Hewett, rhewett@csub.edu
				Kaye Falconer, kfalconer@csub.edu

	Cerro Coso 		Gary Enns, genns@cerrocoso.edu

	College of the Canyons		Jennifer Brezina, Jennifer.brezina@canyons.edu
				Adam Kempler, adam.kempler@canyons.edu

	Intensive English Language Center		Jeremy Caldwell, jcaldwell@csub.edu
	CSUB		Karen Hurley, khurley@csub.edu

	Taft College 		Gary Graupman, ggraupman@taftcollege.edu
				Kamala Carlson, kcarlson@taftcollege.edu
				Jessica Grimes, jgrimes@taftcollege.edu

	Porterville College 		Susan Regier, sregier@porterville.edu
				Elizabeth Buchanan, ebuchanan@porterville.edu