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*What is NCCSS?
*Advantages of membership
*Become a member

*NCCSS Newsletter
*NCCSS History

*NCCSS Constitution & Bylaws
*2009 Spring Conference Program
*NCCSS Satisfaction Survey
*What every president should   know

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WHAT IS NCCSS?
The NCCSS is an organization of colleges and universities offering undergraduate and/or graduate programs in the summer months. The organization's boundaries roughly coincide with those of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The NCCSS is regional and is thus able to address concerns unique to this area. The NCCSS is dedicated to maintaining high standards in summer programs.

ADVANTAGES OF MEMBERSHIP
Dialogue and information sharing about the complexities of summer session administration are the cornerstone of NCCSS activity. As an NCCSS member, you'll have access to:

Networking with Other Professionals

The chance to discuss their work with other summer session professionals is one of the benefits NCCSS members value most highly. NCCSS members maintain an informal information network with other professionals in summer seesion administration. Many difficult questions can be answered with a phone call to another member of NCCSS.

Annual Conference

Every March, NCCSS members convene in Chicago for the annual conference. Summer session professionals come together at the Hilton Hotel on Chicago's Magnificent Mile and, amid lots of lively conversation, learn about the latest techniques in summer session administration. Programs include workshops, demonstrations, sharing sessions, committee reports and many opportunities for networking with other summer session administrators.

Newsletter and Other Special Publications

Each fall and spring the NCCSS publishes a newsletter featuring articles of special interest to members. As a NCCSS member you also have access to a wide range of other helpful publications, including: a printed NCCSS membership directory; a forty-year history of summer sessions; a bibliography of summer session literature in higher education; a collection of summer session questionnaires; Summer Academe, a journal that focuses on research and pedagogical and administrative issues in summer session; and the Joint Statistical Report, an invaluable survey of summer session operations prepared in concert with other regional and national summer session associations.

Theresa Neil Memorial Research Grant

The organization helps fund the Theresa Neil Memorial Research Grant which supports research projects related to summer sessions administration and pedagogy.
Call For Proposals 2009

NCCSS Web site - Easy Access to our Membership Directory and Annual Conference Proceedings

The NCCSS website carries an on-line membership directory and summaries of all of the sessions held at the most recent annual conference. If you'd like a better idea of the kind of issues addressed at the annual conference, drop in at the Web site and have a look for yourself.

Once there, it you have questions about the conference or membership in the NCCSS, feel free to contact Macia Valentine-Salzar, NCCSS President (marcias@bgnet.bgsu.edu) or one of the other NCCSS officers whose names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses are listed in the on-line directory.

 

NCCSS welcomes the following new member institutions:

  • Kentucky State University
  • Michigan Technological University
  • Georgia Southern University
  • Regis University
  • Western Illinois Univeristy

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BECOME A MEMBER
Membership Categories
The Conference (NCCSS) fiscal year will begin January 1 and extend through December 31 of each year. Two membership categories exist in the North Central Conference on Summer Schools.

1) Institutional Membership ($150.00)
This is the basic membership unit in NCCSS. As the name indicates, the institution maintains membership for up to five people with one person, usually the chief summer session administrator, designated as the institutional (or voting) member. This category entitles the institution to full association participation including an institutional vote in business affairs.

2) Individual Membership ($50.00)

A) Summer session administrators from member schools other than the designated institutional representative. These members have the same rights and privileges as institutional member except that only one person from a member insitution may hold office at any one time.

B) Former institutional members who represented a college or university in the conference for two or more years but who currently are not in higher education or summer school administration. These members may not vote or hold office.

You can become a member by contacting Ms. Candy Hall with Bradley University at:309.677.2374 or cld@bradley.edu.

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