Planning and Logistical Support
Streamline your planning efforts, control costs, and ensure that your event runs smoothly. Let the College of Continuing Education manage your program.
Getting Started
From the initial concept through the program wrap-up, we'll work with you to:
- Recruit planning committee members and schedule and manage planning committee meetings
- Develop an educational design based on participant needs and program objectives
- Prepare timelines and assign responsibilities
- Recruit speakers and coordinate contracts, travel, and other arrangements
- Prepare honoraria and travel expense reimbursements
- Evaluate program sites and negotiate the contracts
- Manage hotel and dormitory needs
- Arrange transportation
- Identify potential sponsors
- Finalize the details of the program and related activities including field trips, tours, and other social activities
- Manage production of materials, abstracts, and proceedings
- Manage on-site activities, including registration, set-up of meeting rooms and AV equipment, signage, and orientation of speakers
- Coordinate and manage exhibit and poster sessions
- Plan meals, refreshments, receptions, and determine final guarantees for food providers
- Design and manage the program evaluation
- Secure professional certification credits
- Arrange for University of Minnesota Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
