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Registration | NSEA Above & Beyond Program | Objectives
Student Employment Essentials Training | Conference Sessions
Hotel Information | Community Service Project | Airport/Ground Transportation
What To Bring | Conference Schedule

Registration
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Must be a member of NSEA and/or MASEA to attend.
If you are not a current member of NSEA and/or MASEA, please go to NSEA and/or MASEA websites to join and pay your membership dues.

NSEA Dues: $125.00
MASEA Regional Dues: $50.00

Cancellation & Refund Policy
Registration cancellations received by September 23, 2010, will receive a full refund minus a $20 processing fee. Participants canceling after September 23, 2010, will not receive a refund. Registration fees may be transferred to another individual at your college/university.

For more information contact: June Hagler, nsea@nsea.info, Phone: 972-690-8772

Conference Objectives
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• Enhance a common understanding of what roles student employment professionals play and how we enhance student learning.
• Discover methods and means for recognizing and promoting student employment at our campuses.
• Understand how and where change is occurring within student employment, higher education, and federal regulations.
• Develop the skills, knowledge, and understanding necessary to execute ethical and effective student employment programs.
• Refresh our individual and community spirit.

Student Employment Essentials Training
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Before the conference gets underway, you will have the opportunity to attend NSEA’s popular training program: Student Employment Essentials (SEE) - the Foundation for Effective Student Employment Programs. On Sunday, October 17, 2010, Track A of the SEE Training will be offered from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. On Monday, October 18, 2010, Track B of the Student Employment Essentials Training will be offered from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Expert trainers will present these one-day, professional seminars teaching you the skills critical for a successful student employment program. Designed to help you hit the ground running, these sessions provide you with the following.

Track A

• Review of Fair Labor Standards Act, IRS rules and ADA compliance
• Crucial information on interviewing students for jobs
• Tools for setting up, promoting, reporting, and maintaining a successful Job Location and Development program
• Marketing techniques to bring in more jobs and more students

Track B

• Regulations concerning employing international students
• Tips to help students with their career development
• Department of Education guidelines for Federal Work-Study
• Help in setting up a FWS Community Service Program
• Developing jobs and maintaining employer relations
• Steps for reporting the FWS Community Service requirements, calculating earnings, and using program models from other schools.

Registration for the SEE training is a separate cost ($139 per track) from the conference registration. See the conference registration form for the SEE Training registration information.

NSEA Above & Beyond Program
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This professional development program combines the best of NSEA's conference sessions and volunteer opportunities into one unique program that honors the commitment of members to not only explore areas within student employment but to expand their own personal growth.

Program participants will be awarded an NSEA Professional Development Certificate of Completion for completing the requirements.

Tentative Conference Sessions
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As a conference participant, you can expect dynamic and thought provoking keynote presentations, a wide range of professional development seminars, and up-to-date concurrent sessions including some of the following:

We are excited to offer the ABC Series:

• The ABC’s of JLD
• The ABC’s of Federal Work Study & Community Service
• The ABC’s of Marketing & Promotion

As well as:

• Employing International Students
• Diverse Populations
• Supervisors & Student Training
• Event Planning
• Student Employment Jobs Online
• Legal Issues of Student Employment
• Advanced Marketing & Promotion

Newcomer's Session
NSEA is all about people sharing their ideas, time and energy. If you are new to the association, or if you have been in the association a while but have not been very involved, we would like to meet you.

The Newcomers Session will be on Monday, October 18, 2010, from 4:00 to 4:30 pm. This is your chance to meet the NSEA Board of Directors, find out all about the Association, and learn more about how you can get involved.

Hotel Information
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Hyatt Regency Cincinnati, OH
Located in the heart of downtown Cincinnati, the Hyatt Regency is only 15 minutes from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International airport and within walking distance of shopping, over 40 area restaurants, Paul Brown Stadium (Cincinnati Bengals), and the Great American Ball Park (Cincinnati Reds). Other nearby attractions include the Cincinnati Art Museum, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Newport Aquarium, BB Riverboats, casinos, and much more. Public transportation to area attractions is available via the SORTA/Metro and Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky (TANK). Be sure to check out Cincinnati's own Graeter's Ice Cream in the Fountain Square Entertainment District.

Room Rates
$149 per night – single or double occupancy
$174 per night – Triple occupancy
$199 per night – Quadruple occupancy
plus room taxes

Hotel Reservations
Hotel reservation can be made online at https://resweb.passkey.com/go/jemp or by calling the hotel reservations department at (800) 233-1234. Refer to NSEA Conference when making your reservation. All individual reservations must be guaranteed with a credit card.

*** Reservations not canceled 24 hours prior to arrival will be billed the first night's room rate.***

Hotel Reservation Deadline
The deadline to make a reservation at the conference rate is 4:59pm (EST) of September 23, 2010. We cannot guarantee room availability or room rates after this date. So make your room reservations today.

Reservation requests made after 5:00pm (EST) on September 23, 2010, will be accepted on a space and rate availability basis.

Attire/Weather

• Conference attire is business casual.
• The average temperatures in Cincinnati in October are:
  • Average High: 54°F
  • Average Low: 35°F

Community Service Project
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Each year conference participants conduct a community service project at the annual conference. Proceeds are donated to a local charity. Last year, NSEA held a silent auction to raise funds for the Orlando Ronald McDonald House, over $1,200 was raised. Past silent auctions have raised up to $2,000.

Airport/Ground Transportation
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Executive Transportation Shuttle is the easiest way for guests to go to and from the hotel. Executive Transportation Shuttle is available 24 hours a day by appointment. The cost is $20/one-way and $30/roundtrip—call to guarantee reservations, 800-990-8841. Walk up shuttle service is available at shuttle desks in bag claim areas of the airport. Taxi transportation from CVG is an average $25 fee.

What to Bring
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• Items for the resource table (program manuals, handouts, marketing tools, etc.)
• Item(s) for the Silent Auction and/or items for our charity

Those of you attending your first NSEA conference should know that the membership goes all out to make you feel welcome and at home! This conference is where many new student employment professionals enhance their training and develop valuable contacts. Returning participants agree that they get great ideas and solve pressing problems by networking with colleagues. So, don’t forget to bring plenty of business cards!!!

Conference Schedule
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Conference Schedule (pdf)