ENOHE and ACCUO Open Registration for 2021 Virtual Conference

Details are now available for the joint conference of the European Network of Ombuds in Higher Education the Association of Canadian College and University Ombuds. "Looking Forward: The Role of the Ombuds in the Post-Covid Recovery" will take place online September 21 and 22. Here is the program:

September 21

Opening

ENOHE President, Josef Leidenfrost; ENOHE Vice-President Jean Grier; and ACCUO President Natalie Sharpe

Plenary

Higher Education Ombuds and the Bottom Line: How Much is an Ombuds Worth?

Natalie Sharpe, Carolyn Brendon, and Jean Grier

Concurrent Sessions

• The dilemma of international students in a pandemic context
  Paulo Peixoto, Joana Almeida, and Dominik Drexel
• A glimpse into the post-COVID crystal ball: How can Ombuds Offices use predictions for the future of higher education to highlight their value to academic institutions?
  Heather McGhee Peggs

Concurrent Sessions

• The ‘Coronavirus Generation’ and the need to improve the world of online higher education
  Doris Kiendl, Felicity Mitchell, and Mirjam Meindl
• What is our work as Ombuds about? – two experiences
  Wolf Hertlein and Jorge António Ribeiro Pereira

Closing Notes

Josef Leidenfrost and Jean Grier

September 22

Plenary

Governance and Ombuds Offices in Europe

Josef Leidenfrost

Concurrent Sessions

• Privacy and GDPR compliance in a Social Media age
  Jean Grier, Guadalupe Barrena, Ryan Smith, and Martine Conway
• How to be influencers in Higher Education #2
  Anna-Katharina Rothwangl and Michael Gruber

Concurrent Sessions

• Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed our work at the Ombuds’s Office?
  Emilio Olías, Jose Antonio Gonzales De la Peña, and Jorge António Ribeiro Pereira
• Ombuds and …: positives and pitfalls of adding tools to the Ombuds toolbox
  Jenna Brown, Thomas Brown, and Ryan T. Smith

Concurrent Sessions

• Roma Constantinopolim et Claudiopolim retroque (From Rome to Istanbul and Babes-Bolyai and back)
  Gizem Güray, Dégi László Csaba, and Josef Leidenfrost
• Managing the fall out
  Felicity Mitchell
  - and -
  What a difference a year and a half has made ……. or has it?
  Karen Stulka

Closing Plenary Q&A

Josef Leidenfrost, Jean Grier, and Natalie Sharpe

(ENOHE 2021 Conf Info.)

Related posts: ENOHE Releases Full Agenda for 2019 Conference in Spain; ACCUO/ENOHE 2020 Conference is Postponed; ENOHE Occasional Paper: “Comparing Concerns: COVID-19 Webinar”; Webinar: Adapting to Covid in the New Academic Year; ENOHE to Host Informal Meet-Up; Save the Date: ENOHE-ACCUO 2021 Conference.