The Academic Advising Association at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host its ninth-annual Academic Advising Conference on March 3. The conference will be available entirely via Zoom.
Registration is available online.
Higher education professionals from the university and other institutions will be able to engage with each other, share ideas, and learn new information during conference breakout sessions. Topics will explore the creative solutions advisers put in place to keep each other and students safe from physical and social disease.
The conference committee has identified four concentrations within the broad theme of Designing the Future and Building Tomorrow. Those concentrations are Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership and Development, Technology and Practice, and Wellness and Self-Care.
Nebraska’s Shane Farritor, David and Nancy Lederer Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will be the keynote speaker. He holds degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-founder of Virtual Incision Corporation, which is developing miniature robotic devices that help perform laparoscopic surgeries. Farritor holds more than 150 patents and is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
