2024 Keynote Speaker: Megan Bergman
“The Future of Catalyzing Change is YOU: Using Your Voice for Advocacy as an Advising Professional”
Megan, once an Academic Advisor and Senior Academic Advisor at the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University-West Lafayette, is now a first-year doctoral student in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) studying Human Resources and Industrial Relations. Her primary research interests include occupational stress and trauma, as well as how socially disadvantaged groups are integrated and reintegrated into the workplace. Before studying at UIUC, Megan earned a master’s degree in organizational communication and a bachelor’s degree in corporate communication from Purdue West Lafayette.
During her over six and a half years in advising at Purdue, Megan served as the Co-Chair and Chair of the Purdue Academic Advising Association (PACADA) Research Committee and has additionally served as Vice Chair and Chair of the PACADA Steering Committee, two roles in which she advocated for positive campus-wide change on behalf of students and academic advisors at Purdue. She also served on the Daniels School of Business CareerBound Program Development Committee. Today, Megan is an active, contributing member of the Indiana Academic Advising Network (IAAN) Communication Committee and serves on the Future Business Leaders of America National Collegiate Strategy Council.
In her free time, Megan enjoys hiking, listening to jazz, BTS, and Taylor Swift, playing board and video games, and spending time with her spouse, Jacob, and their furkids, Rocky and Tuxedo.
Call for Proposals
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Please submit your presentation proposals for the 2024 IUBAAC Spring Conference to be held on Wednesday, February 14. The conference will be held in the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU). The conference will feature a business meeting, a keynote presentation, and then will include concurrent sessions presented by advisors, advising administrators, and career services professionals in the IUB community.
Proposals should be 250-300 words, connect in some way with one or more of the NACADA Academic Advising Core Competencies, and result in conference presentations anticipated to be 45-50 minutes long.
The committee welcomes all proposals for workshops, panels, or presentations on any of the following topics:
- Advising Practice
- Advisor Wellbeing
- Advocating for Advisors and/or students
- Allyship
- Equity, Justice, Inclusion, Diversity
- History/Philosophy of Advising
- Independent Research
- New programs/initiatives
- Post-graduation/ grad school/ career conversations
- Professional Development
- Student Success
- Technology
- Resources
- Other topics of interest
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Submission of work at all stages of development is encouraged. Proposals are due by Wednesday, January 10. Decisions will be made by Monday, January 22.
Questions can be directed to Conference Chairs Stacy Weida (sweida@iu.edu) and Kristin Mann (mannkr@iu.edu), PDC Co Chair Ruthie Williamson (rumthun@iu.edu), or PDC Co-Chair Patrick McKamy (pmckamy@iu.edu).