10:00 - 10:30AM: Check in and light breakfast (Rotunda - Dome Room)
10:30 - 11:30AM: Welcome/Region Meeting (Rotunda - Dome Room)
11:30AM - 1PM: Networking lunch (lunch on your own with colleagues at The Corner)
Take time to visit any of the restaurants on the “corner” (all walkable) and catch up with colleagues or meet new ones!
1:00 - 1:50 PM: Conference Session 1
Option 1: Strategies for Culturally Relevant Conduct Education (Multipurpose Room).
This presentation will help conduct and conflict resolution professionals increase the cultural relevance of their educational approaches for all students. Participants will consider one of their community's specific educational sanctions, programs, or other endeavors or ideas for those. The workshop will guide each participant to develop a concrete strategy for increasing the cultural relevance of that work to engage more students, more effectively, while also managing the political realities of current efforts at culturally relevant education.
Option 2: Conduct Case Complexity Index (Lower West Oval Room)
Student conduct offices are increasingly tasked with managing high volumes of cases that vary significantly in urgency, complexity, and required staff resources. Traditional methods of assigning cases often rely heavily on institutional memory, individual staff judgment, or caseload quantity alone. This presentation explores the development and implementation of a case complexity rating system designed to improve case triage, workload management, and operational assessment within a student conduct office. The model evaluates cases across three core dimensions: urgency (response timeframe required), acuity (level of complexity and coordination needed), and time commitment (anticipated staff workload). Attendees will learn how this framework has been used to support equitable workload distribution, identify trends in student conduct matters, improve resource allocation, and better articulate the scope and intensity of conduct work to institutional stakeholders.
2:00 - 2:50PM: Conference Session 2
Avoiding Creating Castles of Due Process: How Much Process is Actually Due? (Lower West Oval Room)
This program/conversation will introduce the concept of "Flexible Due Process," a concept that poses that we need not provide the same complex levels of process for every type of conduct. Given limited resources, we will discuss how much process is due with respect to particular levels of violations and ask ourselves whether we are deploying our resources wisely and effectively. We also will discuss the types of process available, including formal hearings, informal resolutions, alternative (restorative) resolutions, etc. The presenters will provide a brief presentation followed by a roundtable discussion.
3:00 - 3: 50PM: Conference Session 3
From Slides to Skills: Designing Trainings Students Actually Remember (Lower West Oval Room)
Traditional student conduct and educational trainings often prioritize information delivery over meaningful engagement, resulting in low retention and limited application. This interactive session introduces practical, student-centered strategies that move beyond lecture-based approaches toward skill-building. Participants will explore methods such as scenario-based learning, decision pathways, and reflective activities that better align with how college students learn and apply knowledge. Attendees will leave with actionable tools to design trainings that are engaging, memorable, and developmentally impactful.
4:00 - 4;15 PM: Wrap Up (Lower West Oval Room)
4:20 - 4:40 PM: Optional tour of UVA and historic points (meet at main entrance door)
6:00: Optional Dinner with colleagues
Friday, June 12, 2026
8:30 - 9:15AM: Light breakfast & discussion on hot topics (Multi Purpose Room)
9:15 - 9:50AM: State & District meetings
(MD - Lower West Oval Room, VA - Dome Room, WV - North Oval Room, DC - Multipurpose Room)
10:00 - 10:50AM: Conference Session 4
Option 1: AI Roundtable (Lower West Oval Room)
Please join us for a roundtable discussion of how, if at all, you are using AI to enhance your work as a student conduct professional.
Option 2: Beyond the Hearing Room: Leveraging Student Honor Councils for Campus Engagement, Education, and Due Process (Multipurpose Room)
This session explores how Christopher Newport University’s Student Honor Council (SHC) expanded beyond traditional conduct panel participation to become a highly engaged student leadership organization focused on proactive programming, peer education, student advocacy, and campus partnerships. The presenter will highlight CNU’s 2026 Honor Week initiatives, strategic partnerships and collaboration, the implementation of an expanded Student Advocate policy, strategies for increasing member engagement during a year with record academic integrity cases, and lessons learned from empowering students to lead meaningful campus-wide initiatives centered on accountability, honor, integrity, wellness, and community.
11:00 - 11:50AM: Conference Session 5
Faculty-Student Fights about AI and Conduct: What if it's cultural? (Dome Room)
Faculty call about students disrupting learning environments. Students say faculty expectations on artificial intelligence and academic integrity don't make sense. What if this extends beyond mere difference of opinion to a cross-cultural conflict? This session will examine the ways in which these scenarios may include cultural implications, how to assess that, and how to address it.
12 - 12:50PM Lunch (provided - Multipurpose Room)
Public Policy and Legislative Updates 2026
This presentation will review public policy and legislative issues for region 9 to include but not limited to new federal and state laws and their impact on the student conduct profession.
1:00 - 1:50PM: Conference Session 6 (Dome Room)
Implementing Restorative Practices: Anticipating and Overcoming Barriers
Are you considering creating a restorative justice-based approach to student conduct on your campus but don’t know where to begin? Are you concerned about potential challenges or barriers such as community buy-in, personnel or fiscal resources, or lack of support from senior leadership? Are you confused about where and how to begin? The presenters will discuss the challenges one might expect to face in shifting to a restorative model and provide advice on how to anticipate and overcome these challenges.
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