Proposal Submission Deadline: March 11, 2025

Would you like to present at the upcoming Tutor Training Summit?  We expect this year’s theme will attract many academic support center directors/coordinators and those who oversee support for QL/QR programs — all with an interest in training tutors.

We welcome proposals on various aspects of training tutors as part of administering an academic support center. All attendees of the Summit are invited to submit a presentation proposal, you do not need to be a member of NECQL, nor do you need to have many years of experience in your current role.

Session Formats: We anticipate having a variety of sessions throughout the 2-day conference in any/all of the following formats: 

• Interactive Workshops (~55 min)
• Presentations (~25-55 min)
• Lightning Presentations (15-min each)
• Poster Session 
• Round Table Discussions (~25-55 min)
  • “Four Corners Debate on CRLA” – conference organizers plan to facilitate a debate (of sorts) on the pros and cons of CRLA certification.  We seek 2-4 people occupying both sides of the debate who are willing to give a 3-5 minute argument on why they are in favor or are opposed to using CRLA certification at their institution.
  • We welcome other round table discussion ideas.
• Panel Discussions (~25-55 min)

If you are unsure as to whether or not your topic idea is appropriate, we encourage you to submit anyway.

If you are interested in presenting but are still looking for topic ideas contact us at sasc@bates.edu.

NECQL stands for the Northeast Consortium for Quantitative Literacy — this organization was founded  in the late 90s by a collection of faculty across many disciplines to focus on practices and research associated with promotion of quantitative literacy (also known as numeracy) across the curriculum. 

NECQL became a nexus in the northeast for many of us at small liberal arts colleges and community colleges in New England and New York who worked in isolation to run math/stem/quantitative support centers. In the last 10-15 years, all original founders have retired.  Simultaneously, membership within this group has shifted such that nearly all members are people overseeing math/stem/quantitative support centers and several members are from the south or midwest — one might argue convincingly that the name NECQL no longer fits.  As such, the focus of recent annual meetings centers on providing support to students, administration of such programs, and associated challenges — in those instances where quantitative literacy is central to the discussion it’s primarily in terms of providing support to students in Q-courses. 

In other words, this group has evolved into a collection of people who run academic support centers focusing on STEM and QR support!