Call for Proposals

Event theme: Lights, Camera, Access and Success for All!

🎯 Hitting Your Mark: Accreditation & Program Quality in Dual Enrollment

Delivering a high-quality dual enrollment program takes intentional design, strong standards, and continuous improvement - it doesn’t happen by chance. This track invites sessions that explore how institutions implement and sustain quality assurance practices, align with NACEP’s National Standards for Program Quality, and pursue accreditation. Proposals should provide practical strategies, lessons learned, and innovative approaches for strengthening program quality and ensuring students receive a rigorous and well-supported dual enrollment experience.

🎭 Advising: Setting the Stage for Student Success

Advisors play a starring role in guiding students through dual enrollment—from recruitment to completion. This track is looking for sessions that highlight best practices in student advising, engagement, and support, including strategies for orientation, academic guidance, and proactive interventions. Proposals should showcase how programs prioritize student success and help students navigate both the excitement and challenges of earning college credit while in high school.

🎞 Casting the Future Workforce: Dual Enrollment & Career Pathways

Dual enrollment is more than just earning college credit—it’s a launchpad for future careers. This track invites proposals that explore how dual enrollment integrates with Career & Technical Education (CTE), STEM pathways, apprenticeships, and other work-based learning programs. Sessions should highlight effective partnerships between education and industry, successful career pathway models, and strategies to equip students with skills and credentials that prepare them for the workforce.

🎤 The Greenlight: Policy & Advocacy for Dual Enrollment

Just like a film needs the greenlight to move forward, strong policies and advocacy efforts are essential for expanding and sustaining high-quality dual enrollment programs. This track seeks sessions that examine state, federal, system, and institutional policies that shape dual enrollment’s growth, sustainability, and impact. Proposals should focus on topics such as statewide policy alignment, funding models, legislative advocacy, and policy implementation strategies, providing insights into how policy decisions influence program success.

📊 Behind the Scenes: Research, Data, and Program Evaluation

A great production relies on careful analysis, thoughtful storytelling, and a clear vision—and so does dual enrollment research. This track is looking for sessions that highlight new and emerging research, data-driven decision-making, and program evaluation strategies. Proposals should share how institutions collect, analyze, and apply data to improve dual enrollment programming, measure impact, and inform future policy and practice.

🌟 Access and Success for All: Making Every Student a Star

A great production ensures every actor gets their moment in the spotlight—and dual enrollment should do the same. This track welcomes sessions focused on removing barriers, increasing participation, and improving student outcomes. Proposals should explore strategies for supporting historically underserved students, improving college readiness, addressing affordability, and designing inclusive program models that provide meaningful access to dual enrollment opportunities for all learners.

🎬 Program Operation and Innovation: Running the Show

Running a dual enrollment program is a full-scale production, requiring coordination, planning, and innovation. This track seeks proposals that cover the logistics of program management, staff development, accreditation, and emerging best practices. Sessions should offer insights into streamlining operations, managing program growth, innovating in program delivery, and tackling common challenges, ensuring programs run smoothly from the first take to the final curtain call.

✨Secondary’s Starring Role

New in 2025: Finally, a track for secondary partners, by secondary partners! This track highlights the critical role of K-12 staff in making dual enrollment a reality for students. This track invites sessions that highlight practical strategies, challenges, and solutions from those working directly in secondary schools to implement programs, support students, and collaborate with postsecondary partners. Whether you’re shaping policy at the district level or managing the day-to-day details of dual enrollment, these sessions will feature real experiences and actionable insights from the K-12 perspective.

We are looking for sessions that share one of the unique aspects of your program and go beyond just a program description

A successful session proposal will:

• Support NACEP’s Mission and Vision
• Share demonstrated best practices and/or new and emerging practices in research, policy, program design, advising, quality assurance, and equity-focused work.
• Include ways to engage session attendees
• Incorporate concrete steps for action or tangible takeaways for attendees
• Energize attendees to implement new practices that overcome specific challenges
• Clarity on the problem, issue, or approach that motivated your submission of a proposal (essentially, what is the problem you are trying to solve or help attendees solve)
• Modality of your program and applicability of the concepts shared to different program types prevalent in the nation, 
• identifying a unique aspect of your approach that adds to the conversation about national best practice (particularly if it is a common challenge for the field)
• Tips and tools to address common challenges that attendees can implement within their program or partnership, and/or 
• Results/outcomes/scale data that shows the impact of what you are sharing in your session.
• Complete every field. It is difficult to assess some proposal content due to missing information. Track, program mode, and audience are all very important to identifying content that meets the needs of our community and attendees.
• Select that you are willing to prerecord your session. Our final breakout offerings seek to be valuable to every attendee, whether they are in-person or online. Pre-recoding a session is not considered in initial proposal scoring but can be a factor in selecting sessions for the final event program.

• Sessions will take place on Monday, October 27, and Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
• Breakout Sessions will be 45 minutes in length.
• Breakout Sessions are intended for an audience of approximately 50-100 people, with no more than three speakers. These informative sessions make up the core of conference offerings.
• Presenters must register for the conference.