Schedule

Room: Manchester

OrgSync has been a love hate relationship on our campus since adoption 4 years ago. Since 2013, we have made changes that are radically transforming our campus’ involvement with OrgSync tools and resources. Learn how we made that change and created a vision for the future that inspired key stakeholders to buy into the opportunity to change our campus.

Room: Warwick

OrgSync rejuvenated the enthusiasm of various campus partners to re-engage in discussions on how to best collaborate to further student engagement at UW-River Falls. We are integrating OrgSync into the foundation of our engagement versus an added benefit. Therefore, OrgSync will be an institutional component of the students’ collegiate career.

Room: Churchill

Is your institution in need of a multi-umbrella and multi-portal implementation? Wondering where to start? Join us for a session and learn how to make this large scale project manageable and successful. Find out how our a large, global institution approached an OrgSync implementation spanning multiple schools, needs, and time zones. Learn about who we engaged, the partnerships we forged, and the tools we used.

Room: Windsor

In June 2012 a new training “curriculum” was designed by the Student Programs Office at Boston College for registered student organizations (RSO). Previously, executive boards had been the primary focus of all required training. The goal of a curriculum was to reach the general, and oftentimes younger, membership and to intentionally train organizations on specific developmental areas. The training curriculum is divided into 6 categories each of which has specific learning outcomes and signature events throughout the year.

Room: Canterbury

Are you looking to get residence life connected? Are you looking for new ideas to use in residence life? From housing agreements and RA selection processes to program proposals and duty logs, see how OrgSync has taken up residence at Worcester State University!

Room: Manchester

Increase voter turnout and say goodbye to ballot boxes and paper forms! Come to this session to learn how to transition your University’s elections and voting procedures to OrgSync. We will discuss how UCA uses a Voting Booth portal to facilitate our Homecoming and complex Student Government Association elections.

Room: Churchill

Has your campus recently transitioned to OrgSync? Since the implementation of OrgSync in 2012 the University of Miami has had its trials, including finding creative ways to use the program which allows for the merging of multiple departments. This session will demonstrate the best practices used in streamlining current processes and information among the campus community and greater Miami community.

Room: Canterbury

Administrators working with graduate students often have to get creative and rethink the strategies they may have used with undergraduates when marketing and selling new ideas and initiatives. During this roundtable we will discuss best practices to meet the challenge of getting graduate students excited and more active with OrgSync.

Room: Warwick

Students want to know they belong their campus. OrgSync is La Sierra University’s main source on finding out “How U Belong”. This workshop will have a variety of ideas on how to involve your students by using your OrgSync.

- Branding your campus
- Managing Elections
- Providing training and workshops
- Creating leadership tools
- Determining future plans and ideas

Room: Newbury

Room: Berkshire

Room: Canterbury

Community colleges are changing. The number of traditional-aged college students, the desire to connect to the campus, and the requirement to be on the cutting edge of technology all continue to grow. With that growth and increase, there is a need for systems that meet students where they are. Transitioning to OrgSync has been a key factor in better serving these students at the Community College of Philadelphia. A smooth implementation plan has helped with that process.

Room: Warwick

Budget Management system was implemented on our campus to help student organizations manage their budget requests, and help administrators keep reports of their allocations. Come learn about our implementation, what went well, and what could have been improved. We will also talk about how we transitioned our old paper process into OrgSync.

Room: Windsor

This presentation will reflect on the challenges and successes, both foreseen and unforeseen, after one year of an ambitious campus-wide launch. Additionally, a discussion of strategies will be provided on how to tackle year two of OrgSync after such a launch.

Room: Manchester

Let’s focus on what goes into adopting or expanding OrgSync on your campus. We will cover important implementation, adoption, and marketing strategies to make your start on OrgSync a breeze!

Room: Churchill

Room: Manchester

At Washington State University we work very hard to assess and manage risk at student events held on campus. This presentation will discuss how we use OrgSync to reach various constituents across campus and gain their input regarding these student events in a way that is collaborative and supportive of what the students are requesting.

Room: Warwick

We all know OrgSync is valuable, but some students still don’t. Many can login, but the trick is getting them back. It may be time to assess what’s in it for them. We’ll share creative ways to “beef up” your resources and re-launch so that students can’t live without it!

Room: Churchill

With the new updates to the service management umbrella service-learning facilitation in OrgSync is now accessible. At Boise State University we have designed a paperless workflow that allows partners, faculty and students to navigate their way through service-learning intuitively.

Room: Windsor

Get your creative juices flowing! Let's talk about creative ways to market, highlight, shed light, and continuously promote OrgSync to your campus community. You can think outside the box! Or utilize something that's already being done! You don't always have to reinvent the wheel! Let's go beyond the traditional 1 hour training to teach and highlight the effectiveness of OrgSync. This session will be interactive and will focus on OrgSync marketing techniques for various campuses.

Room: Manchester

Implementing OrgSync on a campus can be a challenge, and an efficient transition of OrgSync administration is integral. It’s important to identify the issues you want to solve with OrgSync and go “all in” with the formulated plan. This session will discuss the implementation strategies at our 2 year institution, from the aspect of a client who implemented the product, and the client who transitioned as the next administrator.

Room: Warwick

Learn how we revamped and revitalized our End of Year Reports and Budget Application forms to create assessment, training, and growth opportunities for student organization and the Center for Student Involvement at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Leave with ideas and inspiration for making your forms work better for you and your students.

Room: Churchill

Improve efficiency on your campus with meaningful reports and hard data. In this session, you will learn how to design forms for maximum reporting power. We will also discuss how we implemented an automatic room booking system using API.

Room: Windsor

Join the OrgSync UI Team to demo the powerful new update to your OrgSync experience. This soon-to-be-released user interface redesign is more than skin-deep; we’ve reimagined how OrgSync can work now and into the future. Bring your laptop and your questions, so you can follow along in your own community as we explore the new OrgSync!

Room: Canterbury

Room: Berkshire

Room: Manchester

This presentation will reflect on the challenges and successes, both foreseen and unforeseen, after one year of an ambitious campus-wide launch. Additionally, a discussion of strategies will be provided on how to tackle year two of OrgSync after such a launch.

Room: Warwick

Did you know that OrgSync Events now connect directly with 25Live calendaring system? The system allows for a seamless integration with University calendaring and student events. Stanford University was one of the first to integrate these systems. Attend this workshop if you are interested in doing the same on your campus.

Room: Churchill

The University of Tennessee at Martin conducted a Student Organization Census during the spring semester of the 2013-14 academic year. The census was a campus-wide initiative that proved to be an effective strategy for marketing the use of OrgSync, and led us to make lots of necessary and urgent changes in a short period of time. Our goals were to update our records, provide training for Presidents, relaunch the use of OrgSync in the area of Student Organizations, and survey organizations about services offered through the Office of Student Life. To achieve these goals, the census took a full semester to complete and was broken down in three phases: Phase 1 – Census Registration, Phase 2 – Training and OrgSync Relaunch, Phase 3 - Survey. In this session, we will talk about our goals for the census, outcomes, and our work with upper administration for support during this process.

Room: Canterbury

Implementing progressive change on a college campus is already difficult, but men seem to make that process even more challenging. Instead of just putting men into the "hopeless" category, this session will discuss methods and tips on how to foster OrgSync buy-in with our male students and organizations.

Room: Berkshire

Room: Newbury

Room: Manchester

Developing a strategic plan can be a challenging process for an organization. Thus, many do not have strategic plans or they plan and implement at the same time. This session will cover how to develop a strategic plan and a subsequent assessment protocol using the Student Leadership Competencies as a framework.

Room: Warwick

This session will focus on how the Division of Student Affairs at DePaul University is leveraging involvement data from OrgSync in order to begin putting the puzzling pieces of divisional (cross-departmental) student engagement together. Data visualizations representing DePaul OrgSync data pulled via the API will be shared.

Room: Churchill

Why settle for boring when you can have awesome?! This session will focus on branding your OrgSync community to match your University creating a seamless gap between other systems and OrgSync, and leaving your OrgSync community looking amazing.

Room: Canterbury

Join representatives from Washington State University, Boise State University, and University of Idaho to learn how the Service Management System (SMS) is integrated on our campuses. We will share the various ways our departments utilize OrgSync to increase and enhance the community engagement experiences of our students.

Room: Manchester

Student organization budgets were over $40,000 in debt and in complete disarray at UWRF until we adopted the Budget Management System. Now we successfully manage all budget requests and allocations, payment requests, and revenue tracking. Learn the do’s and dont’s of implementation as well as some tricks of the trade!

Room: Warwick

We took activities risk management online in 2012 with OrgSync and an elaborate form, the 360 Event Planning Guide, which we recently revised. The 360 is paired with our UCSB’s unique Minor Events Committee, which meets weekly to approve student events. Join us for an inside look at our approach.

Room: Churchill

Lamar University implemented a peer mentoring program on campus to meet the need of student adoption of OrgSync. In this session, we will discuss the visibility and benefits of OrgSync Peer Mentors on the Lamar University campus. The logistics of the peer mentor position will be reviewed to help you determine if peer mentorship would be a good fit for your campus.