Dates & Pricing
Registration for the 2025 NADOHE Annual Conference is open. Applicable fees are determined by the date and type of registration detailed below:
Early Registration Pricing: Registration on or before December 4, 2024
Advanced Registration Pricing: December 5, 2024 - February 5, 2025
Onsite Registration Pricing: February 6, 2025 - March 7, 2025
Member - $750.00 early / $800.00 advanced / $850.00 onsite
Non-Member - $950.00 early / $1,000 advanced / $1065 onsite
Student - $575.00 early / $650.00 advanced / $700.00 onsite
Non-Member Student - $650.00 early / $700.00 advanced / $750.00 onsite
Retiree - $562.50 early / $600.00 advanced / $637.50 onsite
Non-Member Retiree - $712.50 early / $750.00 advanced / $798.75 onsite
Pre-Conference Workshops
NADOHE's Pre-Conference Workshops will be held Wednesday, March 5, 2025 with two morning sessions and one afternoon session available to choose from. Workshop registration is completed through the Conference Registration form. Capacity is limited per session.
Workshop Registration Pricing:
Member - $375.00 early and advanced / $425.00 onsite
Non-Member - $425.00 early and advanced / $475.00 onsite
Morning Sessions
Charting Excellence: Empowering New Chief Diversity Officers for Success
Transitioning to a new Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) position is both exciting and challenging. Forging a path of transformational organizational change with increasing demands from multiple constituents, and often limited resources is no easy task. In addition to content expertise, your ability to succeed is dependent on continually increasing your capacity to navigate complexities while maintaining an authentic sense of self and an unwavering focus on the institutional mission. This session will tackle these realities and provide practical solutions for navigating your early years as a CDO. This session is designed to advance the leadership capacity of CDOs who have been their roles for 5 years or less.
Moderator: Emily Monago
So, You Want to Be a CDO?
Becoming a Senior (Chief) Diversity Officer (CDO) in higher education is a far less linear process when compared to other executive positions in the academy. Now more than ever, professionals must have expanded understanding of competency, political savvy, balanced with education to ascend to these roles. This session will cover a range of relevant competencies, pathways to, and strategies for leading diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice efforts at the institutional level. Insights on what it means to serve in the C-Suite and work at the enterprise level will be shared with participants seeking opportunities to ascend to the CDO role, as well as those who are currently working to advance the agenda in this area without the title.
Moderators: Ame Lambert, Corina Hernandez
Afternoon Sessions
Expand your toolbox!
Diversity officers have complex jobs and must engage with a variety of constituents and do deep, long term, culture change work. They must also navigate resistance, doubt, confusion and learned helplessness. So it helps to have a variety of tools in your toolbox. Join us as we explore a variety of lenses and tools from organizational development, positive psychology, and intercultural communication including the neuroscience of inclusion, appreciative inquiry, culture general frameworks, the intercultural development inventory and intercultural conflict inquiry. Participants will have the opportunity to test out these lenses, apply them to their contexts and walk away with new approaches to the work. You just might find your new favorite tool!
Accessibility and Dietary Accommodation
NADOHE seeks to create a conference experience that is inclusive, welcoming, and accessible for all conference attendees. There is a space on the conference registration form where dietary and accessibility needs can be indicated. The registrant will be contacted following completion of this information so to ensure accommodation at the meeting. Notification via the registration form and/or to annualconference@nadohe.org by January 8, 2025 for accessibility accommodations and February 5, 2025 for dietary accommodations will allow adequate time to ensure your needs are supported.
Learn more about Conference Accessibility Here
Badges and Recordings
NADOHE requires all registrants to wear their badges for entry to conference sessions and may deny entrance to anyone without a badge.
NADOHE intends the sessions at the conference to be private conversations among presenters and attendees. NADOHE prohibits recording conference sessions and discussions.
Illinois law, 720 ILCS 5/14-2, prohibits recording non-public conversations without the consent of all participants.
Media Attendance and Inquiries
For media inquiries and interest in attending the conference, please contact pr@nadohe.org.
Attire/Comfort
NADOHE does not have a formal dress code or policy for annual conferences. Our members are leading voices for current and aspiring diversity leaders, and we honor their expertise to decide what is appropriate and professional attire. Conferences are unique opportunities to increase the possibilities for not only setting industry standards for relevant scholarship, but also exemplifying standards of practice. So rather than prescribe instructions on what to wear at our conferences, we invite attendees to incorporate traditional and/or cultural attire, consider local climates and cultural contexts, and prioritize comfort. Our desire is for each attendee to look and feel great about serving as preeminent voices for diversity officers in higher education. Above all, we want our attendees to choose attire that represents their individual styles and makes them feel confident to maximize the opportunities for development. Therefore, NADOHE welcomes all to dress for learning in a laboratory of scholarship, participating in meaningful professional development, and building solidarity within our community.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be made in writing and sent to annualconference@nadohe.org and are subject to a cancellation fee. Cancellation requests received after January 22, 2025 and conference no-shows are ineligible for refunds. Conference organizers will issue refunds within 45 days of the request. All registration fees will be deferred to the following year if the conference is canceled. Please note that registrations are non-transferable.
Interested in becoming a Sponsor?
Your sponsorship of the 2025 NADOHE Annual Conference demonstrates your organization’s support of our mission and of this Conference’s ambition to highlight the policies, programs, practices, and processes that should be examined and enacted in order to create lasting change on college campuses.
Our Sponsorship Brochure is available here.
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