2024 Academic Affairs and Student Success Summit

Wellness and Success: Building a “Future-Ready” Campus

November 7-8, 2024

Drury Plaza Hotel Nashville Downtown
300 Korean Veterans Blvd, Nashville, TN 37201

Description

Join us November 7–8 in downtown Nashville, TN, as we gather for the annual Academic Affairs and Student Success Summit. This year’s Summit will be centered on the critical themes of wellness and success, and building future-ready campuses that prepare students, faculty and staff to thrive in a rapidly changing world. The systemwide collaboration aims to provide a dynamic platform for insightful discussions, collaborative problem solving, action planning and the exchange of innovative strategies and frameworks to enhance wellness and success initiatives across the UT System.

By attending the summit, participants will:

  1. Enhance knowledge of and explore strategies to build resilient and inclusive campuses that support students, faculty and staff as they navigate today’s shifting higher education landscape.
  2. Establish shared expectations about what it means to create and maintain supportive environments that promote the wellness and success of faculty, staff and students.
  3. Identify and examine existing barriers that keep our students, faculty and staff from feeling able to reach their desired goals.
  4. Share tools and insights that allow attendees to continue this work on their home campus.
  5. By the end of the Summit, campus teams will develop appropriate action steps and a shared understanding of how success will be measured.

Schedule

The schedule for the Academic Affairs and Student Success Summit 2024 is currently being finalized and will be added to the website soon.

Registration

To register for this year’s event and provide your preferred cost center, please click on the button below. Registration will remain open until Thursday, Oct. 31. The cost of attendance is $15.

Register for 2024 Summit

Additional Details

The hotel block for this event is at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Nashville, TN. Please make your reservations by Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, to receive your group rate. Reservations made after this date will be subject to prevailing rate and availability. Reservations may also be made by calling 1-800-325-0720 and refer to your group code 10100119. Click the link below to reserve your room block space.

Group Rate: $237.00 (Flat)

Reserve Hotel

Overnight parking is available at a charge of $35 per parking spot per day.

Snacks and beverages will be provided throughout the event. Dinner will be provided by the Drury Hotel at the evening Kickback on Nov. 7, and breakfast (by hotel) and a boxed lunch (provided by UT System) on Nov. 8.

  • Free 5:30 Kickback®* – Join us from 5:30–7:00 p.m. every evening to enjoy free hot food and cold beverages at our 5:30 Kickback®. We feature a rotating menu of hot food, beer, wine, mixed drinks and soft drinks. (Evening of Nov. 7)
  • Free Hot Breakfast – Start every day with make-your-own Belgian waffles, scrambled eggs, sausage, fresh fruit, oatmeal, biscuits and gravy, KELSO+BROS® coffee and more. Free hot breakfast is served daily from 6:00–9:30 a.m. on weekdays and 7:00–10:00 a.m. on weekends. (Morning of Nov. 8)

To view a list of restaurant and bar options for those who want to go out after the summit, please click the link below.

View Restaurant Guide

Summit resources will be added following the event.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about the event, please contact Leigh Morales, director of student success, at lcmorales@tennessee.edu.

If you have any questions about the venue, hotel, dietary restrictions or other accommodation please contact Dominique Harrison, student success coordinator at dharri91@tennessee.edu.