Call for Proposals

We are now accepting session proposals and keynote speaker recommendations!

Please share with anyone who might be interested in attending and/or submitting a proposal for the 2023 AGS Conference. Proposals should focus on trends and best practices in graduate education, graduate students, graduate education staff, and/or faculty involved in graduate education. All sessions will last 50 minutes.

The deadline to submit proposals and/or keynote recommendations is Friday, June 2nd, 2023, at 11:59 PST. Please submit your proposal here!

Suggested topics are below, and we also welcome submissions in other areas that are related to the conference theme “Creating Connections”:

  • Building communities in a post-COVID environment
  • Fostering supportive mentoring relationships
  • Repairing professional relationships after conflict
  • Creating cross-campus partnerships to holistically support students
  • Hybrid opportunities for connection: How do we create community in a virtual world?
  • Professional Developments: Enhance your current work or prepare for other positions on campus
  • Reconnection: How do we reconnect our work and student communities?
  • Hybrid Advising: Best practices for advising students both in-person and remotely

Thank you, and we look forward to receiving and reviewing your proposal.

For questions about proposals, please email our proposal committee team: Jessica Penrose (japenrose@ucdavis.edu) and Sam Arcement (slarcement@ucdavis.edu). For questions about the 2023 conference, please email the AGS Conference Co-Chairs: Lauren Worrell (lkworrell@ucdavis.edu) and Sarah Driver (sbdriver@ucdavis.edu).