2008 Tentative Conference Agenda

Tuesday
2pm - 5pm Conference registration
3pm – 5:30pm New User Training – Basic Sigma
6pm – 8pm General Reception/25^th Anniversary Event (Scavenger Hunt/New Users/First Timers - Flegel)

Wednesday
7:30am – 8:30am Continental Breakfast/Registration
8:30am – 8:45 Welcome
9:00am – 10:15am General Session – Federal update/ NASFAA (Yats to research)
10:30am - 11:45am Teach Grant – Strategic Planning General Session
11:45am – Noon Break
Noon – 1:30pm Interactive Lunch (Van Meter to plan – games and prizes per table)
1:30pm – 1:45pm Break
1:45pm – 2:45pm Breakout
    New User Training ISIR Upload Tracking
    Focus Group (Hemmins) – User Codes (SAM, Packaging, BIO)/Notification – Bring your top 5 user codes – Hands on session with 2 computers available
    Sigma (Flegal)– Enhancements (repeated)
2:45pm – 3:15pm Break/Desert
3:15pm – 4:15pm Breakout
    New Users Training Budgeting and Packaging
    Focus Group (Williams) – Budgeting (Term based, summer, winter) – Hands on session with 2 computers available
    Sigma (Flegel) – R2T4
4:15pm – 4:45pm Ask Sigma
NASU Event – Baseball/dinner at the Louisville Bats

Thursday
7:30am – 8:30am Buffet Breakfast
8:30am – 10:30am Sigma business meeting
10:30am – 10:45 Break
10:45am – Noon Breakout
    New User Training Notification
    Focus Group (Van Meter) – Packaging (single term, term based, summer) – Hands on session with 2 computers available
    Sigma (Flegel) – Enhancements (repeated)
Noon – 1:30pm Lunch/NASU Business Meeting
1:30pm – 1:45pm Break
1:45pm – 3pm Breakout
    New User Training Disbursement
    Focus Group (Tyler) – Disbursement – Hands on session with 2 computers available
    Sigma (Flegel) – R2T4
1:45pm – 4:30pm Ask Sigma – Hands-on available (computers available)
3pm – 3:15pm Break/Snack
3:15pm – 4:30pm Roundtable – Functional (note taker) and Technical (note taker)
6pm SIGMA reception/event

Friday
8:30am – 9:30am Continental Breakfast/NASU board meeting
9:30am – 10:45am Breakout
    New User Training Verification
    Focus Group (session leader) - Compliance/Verification - Hands on session with 2 computers available
9:30am – 11am Ask Sigma – Hands-on available (computers available)
10:45am – Noon Strategic Initiatives with Sigma (Timmons)