Dear colleagues, Bergen Community College of New Jersey is having its fourth annual best practices conference, and the focus this year is teaching and learning in a diverse environment. The conference is scheduled for March 7, 2015, and proposals for presentations are due November 1. For more information, see below and follow these links: Call for proposals: http://goo.gl/5TvRrQ Conference website: http://www.bergen.edu/tristate Best wishes, Eva Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Queens College, City University of New York http://efernandez.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu On 9/15/14, 12:15 PM, "Sarah Shurts" <sshurts@bergen.edu<mailto:sshurts@bergen.edu>> wrote: Dear NY Provosts and Academic Vice Presidents, I am writing to thank you for assisting us for the past three years and to ask if you would please forward this ³call for papers² to your faculty again this year. We at Bergen Community College of NJ are very excited to be hosting this fourth annual Tri-State Best Practices Conference with the theme of ³Culture, Learning, and Learning Cultures: Teaching and Learning in a Diverse Environment.² Thanks to your assistance in sending out the call last year, our 2014 conference was a great success with over 120 presenters from 21 different two and four year colleges throughout NJ, NY, and PA. We feel it is a wonderful opportunity for faculty at your college to meet those around the tri-state area who share their passion for teaching and collaborating with their peers in an interdisciplinary and intercollegiate environment. The conference will once again be fully funded by BCC and participants will not need to pay a registration fee of any kind. I would like express my appreciation to you for making sure that our call for papers and proposals reaches your faculty members at some point over the next few days since the deadline for submission is November 1. The success of our conference is, of course, dependent on our call for papers reaching all interested faculty in the area. Thank you again for your assistance in helping us inform your faculty about this excellent opportunity and I hope to see many of them at our conference in March. Best wishes, Sarah Shurts Dr. Sarah Shurts Assistant Professor History Department Bergen Community College 201-301-1261