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2008 PLANC Conference: Advising the Millennials -- High Tech, High Touch

2008 PLANC Conference: Advising the Millennials -- High Tech, High Touch

Las Vegas, October 15-18

UPDATE
Due to some extenuating circumstances, we were able to get the Friday night and Saturday night hotel rate reduced to $104.00 per night.  You do not need to do anything.  It will automatically be reduced on your room charge.  Wednesday night and Thursday night are still at $89.00 per night.  We look forward to seeing you at the conference next week!

Conference Theme

The planning is well underway for the PLANC Fifth National Pre-Law Conference to be held in Las Vegas October 15-18, 2008. The theme of the conference is Advising the Millenials: High Tech, High Touch. We plan to address the challenges pre-law advisors face in advising a new generation of students whose familiarity and ease with electronic technologies affect how they gather and process information and plan their futures in law. We will explore how advising is evolving in an age of virtual tours, chat rooms, e-mail and informed, yet anxious potential applicants, as well as the differing expectations and approaches students, advisors, law school admissions personnel bring to the process. How do we help tuned in “organization kids” to think meaningfully about the future of a career in law? The conference will combine panels on these subjects along with standard “nuts and bolts” sessions and workshops to benefit both new and experienced pre-law advisors. If you have the funding for only one conference, this opportunity will provide a comprehensive experience for pre-law advisors nationwide.

Conference Site

The conference will be held in the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas which is easily accessible by shuttle. Given the extremely reasonable rates we’ve secured, which extend for a night or two before and after the conference (depending on availability), you may want to combine the conference and a vacation.

If you are registering late for the conference, you can still receive the hotel conference rate if you CALL the South Point Hotel and tell them you are with the PLANC Conference. You cannot reserve your hotel room online since our deadline date was September 14. YOu will need to call the hotel for the conference rate. There are still rooms available!

Tentative Program Schedule & Highlights

And 3:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY 10/15

 

Noon-5:00 PM            New Advisors Workshop                                

1:00 -5:00 PM             Veteran Advisors Workshop

3:30 PM                       Break followed by Joint New and Veteran Session                   

 

6:00 PM                       UNLV Plenary

 


THURSDAY 10/16   

 

7 AM-8 AM                Breakfast                                                         

 

8:00-9:15         The Life of an Item                                                   

                       

                        The Role and Impact of For-Profit                           

Prelaw Advising Services

                                                           

            Summer Legal Fellows: A Win-Win             

                        Pre-Law Program

                       

Preparing Advisees for the Brave

New World of Career Exploration

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                           

9:30-10:45       Accommodations for Candidates,                       

Applicants, and Law Studentsfs

with Disabilities                                         

                                                           

Joint Degree programs                                             

                        The E-Guide to Public Service                            

at America’s Law Schools

                                   

Ethics in the Internet Age                                                                            

 

11:00-12:15     Inside an LSAT class                                    

                       

I Want to go to Law School, But                              

                        I Don’t Want to Practice Law

                       

                        Helping Law School Applicants                                

Avoid Misconduct Problems

                                   

                        “Show Them the Money!”– Strategies                   

for Helping Pre-Law Students Prepare

Financially for Law School

 

12:30-1:45       Lunch Plenary                                                  

 

Lunch Keynote Speaker: Beverly Stencil, Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Extension, "The Challenges of Boomers and X'ers In Pre-Law Advising the Millennial Generation."

 

2:00-3:15         Inside an LSAT class                                    

                       

                        Law School Rankings                                               

                       

                        Helping Law School Applicants                                

                        Avoid Misconduct Problems

                       

Mock Admissions                                                                                                                                                                 

 

3:30-4:45         The New Age of  Admissions (or                             

Everything you Need to Know to Keep Up

with the Millenials)

                       

                        Finding the Words: Writing Personal                      

                        Statements, Addenda and Resumes

                         

                        Service Learning in the Prelaw Curriculum 

                       

Student Engagement and the LSSSE Survey 

 


FRIDAY 10/17

 

7:00-8:00         Breakfast                                                                     

 

8:00-9:15                                                                                            

Pre-Law Advising for International Students          

 

                        2008 Survey of Pre-law Advisors                             

                       

The Advising Game

 

9:30-10:45       Demonstration Moot Court                                      

                       

Supporting Your Under Represented

Minority Prelaws on the LSAT        

           

Mock Admissions                                                     

 

The Sad Fate of Affirmative Action:                                    

Too Soon for a Requiem?

                                                                       

Financial Aid 101                                                      

                                                                                                           

                       

11:00-12:15     The Sad Fate of Affirmative Action:            

                        Too Soon for a Requiem?

                       

                        Pre-Law Advising at Small Colleges and                 

                        Universities

                       

                        Helping GLBT Students Find a Law School Fit      

 

                        Federal Loan Forgiveness Programs -the New Reality

 

12:30-1:45                   Lunch Plenary                                                  

 

Speaker:Anne Brandt

"The Latest News from Newtown and LSAC"

 

2:00-3:15         Are Disclosure Issues Black and White,                 

                        or Shades of Gray?   

                       

Law School Borrowing and the Impact on Credit

                       

On-Campus Preparation for the LSAT

 

2:30-5:00         Law Schools Fair

                                                           

5:00-6:30         California Public Law Schools Reception    

 

7:00-11:00       Dinner                                                            

 

 


SATURDAY 10/18

 

7:30-8:45 AM              Breakfast                                                         

 

8:45-10:00 AM            APLA Meetings                                              

 

10:15-11:30     Demonstration Mock Trial                                      

                       

Pipeline and Collaboration–The Role                      

for Prelaw in Improving Diversity for the

Profession

Faith Based Law Schools                                         

                                                                                                                                   

12:00-1:30       Closing Luncheon Plenary

            “You’re Not Going to Believe This”            Grand Ballroom A


Conference Registration Forms

ONLY USE ONE OF THESE FORMS TO REGISTER FOR THE PLANC CONFERENCE IF YOU MUST PAY BY CHECK. Otherwise, PLEASE register online at the Cvent site

Commercial Exhibitor Registration Form
Law School Representative Registration Form
Non-Profit Conference Exhibitor
PLANC Partners Registration Form
Pre-Law Advisors Registration Form

Any Pre-law Advisor from a HACU or HBCU institution who expects to be eligible for a registration subsidy from Law School Admissions Council should complete his or her PLANC Conference registration by using the Pre Law Advisor Registration form on this website. Please mail the completed form to Conference Registrar Frank Homer by August 15, 2008. Only LSAC's Office of Diversity Initiatives can verify which institutional pre-law advisors are eligible for such support and to what extent for this conference.

Conference Transportation

NEW UPDATE!South Point - Airport Shuttle Service
Las Vegas Transportation
Site Seeing Tours Information

Conference Steering Committee

Co-Chair
Pamela Allen, Director & Pre-Professional Advisor
Career Services and President, MAPLA
306 Burton Morgan Center
150 Ridge Road
Denison University
Granville, OH 43023
Phone: 740.587.6521
FAX: 740.587.6357
Email: allenp@denison.edu
Web: www.denison.edu/career

Co-Chair
James V. Calvi, Professor, History & Political Science
West Texas A & M University
WTAMU Box 60807
Canyon, TX 79016
806-651-2429
806-651-2429 (fax)
jcalvi@mail.wtamu.edu

Conference Program Chair
Ava Preacher, Assistant Dean, Arts & Letters
104 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Ph. 574-631-8637
FAX 574-631-6856
ava.preacher.1@nd.edu preache@nd.edu

Other Steering Committee Members

Frank Guliuzza, PLANC Board Chair, WAPLA
FGULIUZZA@weber.edu

Jim Calvi, Immediate Past President PLANC and Co-Conference Chair, SWAPLA
jcalvi@mail.wtamu.edu

Stanley E. Clark, Publicity, President, PCAPLA
sclark@csub.edu

Frank Homer, Conference Registrar, NAPLA
homerf1@scranton.edu

Karen Severn, PLANC Treasurer, SWAPLA
ksevern@tamu.edu

Gerald Wilson, Liaison with Law Schools & Vendors, SAPLA
gwilson@asdean.duke.edu

 

 

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