AASCU 2025 Summer Meeting
for Academic and Student Affairs Leaders
Offering opportunities for colleagues from across regional public universities to meet, share, and learn from each other’s challenges and successes.
Register today.
What does a happy future look like at America’s state colleges and universities?
Regional public universities continue to experience significant challenges—a volatile and uncertain sociopolitical context, a decline in state funding, demographic shifts, changing attitudes toward higher education, disruptive technologies, and external attacks on institutional autonomy and our most cherished values.
In times of threats and uncertainty, campus leaders are called to inspire deep and sustained change with the hope of a happier future.
The meeting will pose important questions about the future of the regional public university:
- How are regional public universities preserving their core mission and values while embracing the opportunity to imagine the possible—rethinking and reimagining how they fulfil their mission?
- How are they responding to external pressures to change the way they operate while continuing to serve their students, their regions, and states?
- How have they reimagined credentials to align with the needs of students and employers? How have they deployed technologies like artificial intelligence?
- How have they adjusted to declining revenues while prioritizing student success? How have they adopted long-term strategic plans to sudden, disruptive change?
- How are they responding to, and adopting to, the effects of climate change?
- How are they ensuring that all students thrive at a time when certain programs and services are being challenged if not dismantled?
- How are they building strong partnerships with business to create new models of experiential learning and credentials?
Who should attend:
- Provosts/Chief Academic Affairs Officers
- Assistant and Associate Provosts
- Student Affairs Leaders
- Assistant and Associate Vice Presidents
- Deans and Directors
- Assistant and Associate Deans
- Department Chairs
- Program Coordinators
Benefits of participation:
- Gain knowledge and tools and have opportunities to build skills that are immediately applicable to their jobs
- Opportunities to reflect individually, collectively within campus teams, and across institutions on work and common successes and challenges
- Hear from and engage in conversations with experts and peers, pushing the boundaries of what is possible across higher education
Join us in July for our 2025 Summer Meeting.
Register today.Preliminary schedule at a glance
Program Highlights
We offer a rare opportunity for colleagues from across regional public universities to meet, share, and learn from each other’s challenges and successes.
AASCU’s Summer Meeting for Academic and Student Affairs Leaders is a place of welcoming and acceptance. Content presented celebrates and strives to advance the work accomplished at regional public universities. Speakers, participants, and staff alike are committed to learning from and growing together.
- Sessions are focused on and calibrated to the successes and challenges of regional public universities.
- Sessions are anchored in AASCU’s commitment to advancing student success and the key considerations (e.g. practices, mindsets, policies, and structures) of what it takes to be a truly student-centered enterprise.
Plenary Session Speakers
Terry
Brown
Vice President of Academic Innovation and Transformation
AASCU
James
Hallmark
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Texas A&M University System
Jamie
Merisotis
President and CEO
Lumina Foundation
Yolanda Watson
Spiva
President
Complete College America
Mary Ann
Villarreal
Vice President for Diversity, Equity, & Student Success
American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
Charles L.
Welch
President and CEO
AASCU
Joshua
Wyner
Founder and Executive Director of the College Excellence Program
Aspen Institute
Preconference Speakers
Kate
Hamilton
Senior Program Manager of the College Excellence Program
Aspen Institute
Tania
LaViolet
Director
Aspen Institute
Joshua
Wyner
Founder and Executive Director of the College Excellence Program
Aspen Institute
Michael
Crawford
Vice President
Spitfire Strategies
Jenny
Kern
Managing Senior Vice President
Spitfire Strategies
Laura
Hunter
Vice President, Value and Insights
Ad Astra
Samantha
Raynor
Program Manager
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Registration fees
For assistance with registration OR to register for both the ADP Summit and the Summer Meeting, please contact Felicia Durham at 202-478-4673.
AASCU Summer Meeting Registration
| ATTENDEE TYPE | EARLY BIRD RATE (BEFORE APRIL 22) |
REGULAR RATE (AFTER APRIL 22) |
|---|---|---|
| INDIVIDUAL MEMBER | $750 | $900 |
| TEAMS (3+) | $700 per person | $850 per person |
| CAMPUS PRESENTER (only for invited presenters) | $725 | $725 |
| NON-MEMBER | $1500 | $1500 |
AASCU Summer Meeting & ADP Summit Registration
| ATTENDEE TYPE | EARLY BIRD RATE (BEFORE APRIL 22) |
REGULAR RATE (AFTER APRIL 22) |
|---|---|---|
| INDIVIDUAL MEMBER | $1000 | $1250 |
| TEAMS (3+) | $950 per person | $1200 per person |
| NON-MEMBER | $2200 | $2200 |
Cancellation/Refund Policy
Participants who cannot attend are eligible for partial refunds as follows:
- Cancellation requests received by Monday May 19, 2025 (5pm ET) will be charged a $250 administrative fee.
- Cancellations received between Monday May 19 and June 16, 2025, 5 p.m. (ET) will incur a $500 cancellation fee.
- Cancellations received after 5 p.m. (ET) on June 16, 2025, and no-shows are not eligible for refunds.
All refunds will be issued within 30 days of receipt of the refund request. When writing to cancel or submit a refund request, please email meetings@aascu.org.
Accommodations
Hyatt Regency Indianapolis
One South Capitol Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46204, USA
Phone: 1-888-591-1234 – Guest will need to reference group name to receive group rate.
Rooms in the AASCU Room Block are $229 (plus taxes and fees).
Reserve by June 23.
Meeting attendees must confirm their reservation by Tuesday, June 23, 2025. The hotel may accept reservation requests after June 24 as space is available and at market rates.
We encourage guests to book early as we anticipate high demand/interest in guests wishing to arrive early or extend their stay.
All rooms are subject to applicable state and local taxes, which is currently 17%.
Check-In / Checkout
Guest accommodation will be available at 4 p.m. on arrival day and reserved until 12:00 p.m. on departure day. Note: All requests for early check-in are REQUESTS.
Group Rates
Group rates may be honored three days before group arrival and three days after group departure based on availability. Book early.
Note: We cannot provide or honor the group rate for reservations made outside the block or via third parties (Expedia, Tripadvisor, Kayak, etc.).
Sleeping room options are available at the group rate of $229 for single and double occupancy, $249 for triple, and $249 for quadruple occupancy,
Early Departure Fee
If a guest checks out before the reserved checkout date, the Hotel will add an early checkout fee to the guest’s account. Guests wishing to avoid an early checkout fee should advise the Hotel one business day before arrival.
Cancellation Policy
Should you need to cancel your reservation, please notify the hotel at least 72 hours before your arrival date to avoid a one-night deposit fee.
The Hyatt Regency is a contemporary downtown Indianapolis hotel conveniently connected via walking tunnels to the Indiana Convention Center and only a short walk from Lucas Oil Stadium. Our modern amenities blend effortlessly with classic design elements, creating a comfortable oasis in the heart of one of the Midwest’s most vibrant cities with many exciting attractions nearby.
Travel Information
Indianapolis International Airport (IND) is twelve miles from the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis
Airport Transportation Options
- Shared Ride Service – Approximate cost is $16 each way. Reservations suggested. On-demand service available at Ground Transportation Center across from baggage claim.
- Taxi – Approximate cost is $35 each way.
- Town Car/Limo Service – Approximate cost is $45 each way.
- Bus Service – Nonstop bus service from Indianapolis International Airport to downtown runs on the hour and half-hour from 8 a.m.–11 p.m. Fare is $10 per person each way, cash only.
- Royal Limousine – Please call +1 317 529 8040 for pricing information.
- Transportation Services – All ground transportation services at Indianapolis International Airport are located on Level 1 of the Parking Garage. The GTC is a one-stop shop for rental cars, taxis, limousine service, commercial bus and shuttle services. For information call +1 317 487 7243 or visit indianapolisairport.com and click on Parking & Transportation.
Getting Around
- Pedicabs – A unique, fun and practical way to get around Indianapolis, these three-wheeled “bike taxis” are an environmentally friendly option for downtown transportation. Visit Circle City Pedicabs or Indy Pedicabs for more information.
- Taxi – $5.00 – The regional center for taxis encompasses the area east of the White River, south of 12th Street, west of I‐65, and north of I‐70.
AASCU is committed to making our convenings accessible to all individuals. If you need auxiliary aids or services, please email us (meetings@aascu.org) at the time you register.
By participating in an AASCU conference, you are automatically authorizing AASCU to use your name, photograph, voice, or another likeness for purposes related to the mission of AASCU, including but not limited to publicity, marketing, websites, social media vehicles, and any other AASCU-related electronic forms or media for the promotion of AASCU and its various programs.
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