As students begin to make their way back to school to kick off another year of learning and growing, what better way to mark the occasion than to share about ICAI’s premiere opportunity for doing just that: our annual conference!
The 2025 ICAI Annual Conference will be held in Chicago and has strong potential to be our biggest conference to date since incorporating as a non-profit organization. Don’t you want to be a part of that? We are excited to welcome attendees, presenters, and sponsors from around the world to the conference scheduled for March 6-9, 2025.
Serving as Co-Chair for 2025 alongside longtime conference extraordinaire, Camilla Roberts, I have the pleasure of incorporating feedback from past conferences and new opportunities into the schedule. Here is a teaser of what to expect, besides fabulous puns about carnivals and fairs as we weave in our conference theme: Integrity is Fair.
About the theme: Chicago famously hosted the 1893 World’s Fair which featured cutting edge technology like elevators and fluorescent light bulbs. It notably introduced the world to the Ferris Wheel! Learn more about the remaining buildings and spaces of the fair by visiting Choose Chicago. We look forward to paying homage to this history throughout the conference events, while learning about the cutting-edge work that you’re doing on your campuses and in your research.
What to expect:
• Concurrent presentations! We love hearing about what you have accomplished, whether that be campus programming or research. We hope you’ll consider submitting a presentation within one of our five themes: (1) Current research, (2) Student, institutional, practitioner experiences, (3) Diversity, equity, and inclusion, (4) Policy issues and (5) Artificial intelligence. Call for Proposals launched August 5.
• Pre-conference workshops will be announced in late August/early September. We are organizing those sessions now based on feedback from the previous year. Consider making it into Chicago early for these sessions.
What’s new or changed:
• After an overwhelming amount of submissions for the poster session, we aim to create a dedicated time for the poster session instead of tying it to the social. Presentations not your thing? Consider submitting a poster!
• While not necessarily new to those of you that have attended conferences back in the 2010s, we are bringing back special interest sessions for ICAI’s various committees. Many of you have expressed interest at the last two townhalls about getting involved and we hope to create the space for you to do just that.
My hope is that this 2025 ICAI Conference in Chicago will be an opportunity to continue to further the good work of promoting academic integrity!
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