Call for Presentations at the 2025 What Works Conference

Fifth Annual What Works Conference:  

Draft Theme: Future-Ready—Fostering Student Success Amid Challenge & Change  

Monday, December 15, 2025

As we navigate an era of uncertainty, the imperative to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary for their success has never been stronger. How can higher education remain resilient, relevant, and responsive to equip students with readiness skills to be successful? With public trust under threat, approaches to our work evolving, and perspectives on diversity and inclusion shifting, faculty and staff find themselves having to adapt and lead students in new ways. This year’s What Works theme—Future-Ready—invites proposals from partnered institutions William Paterson University and Passaic County Community College faculty and staff. Proposals should highlight innovative practices in teaching, motivating, advising, student support, student-faculty research, and overall institutional strategies aimed at enhancing student success.

This conference remains practical and solution-oriented, offering faculty and staff a forum to share strategies, research, and initiatives that are shaping a positive, motivating, and fulfilling future for students.  All sessions will be virtual via Zoom.

Call for Proposals – Proposals due by October 27, 2025.

Please see attached document for full call.

Proposals are peer-reviewed. All presenters should be available to present between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the conference day.