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Introduction
The purpose of the BCC is to provide guidance, oversight, and financial accountability to the General and Program Chairs of the BCCEs; to review evaluations and financial reports of past BCCEs; to solicit, evaluate bids, conduct site visits, recommend the locations and General Chairs of future BCCEs; to closely evaluate BCCE Memoranda of Agreement (MOA); and to provide fiduciary responsibility for DivCHED’s BCCE enterprise. The Biennial Conference is the signature event for our Division, typically having more than 1500 attendees presenting papers, participating in workshops, and exploring research to improve student learning. The BCCE is the premiere conference for chemical educators throughout the world.
Information Since Last Report
- A subcommittee of the Biennial Conference Committee examined potential replacement abstract submission and conference management apps and recommended that the Division contract with Ex Ordo and Guidebook for the 2024 BCCE. The Division, in turn, entered into a contract with these companies, and the 2024 BCCE Organizing Team are currently working with the companies.
- A subcommittee of the Biennial Conference Committee developed a draft of BCCE workshop policies and submitted it to the larger committee.
- Members of the Biennial Conference Committee, along with the BCCE Meeting Planning Partner, carried out a site visit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (host of the 2026 BCCE) in late July 2023.
Future Plans
- A report of the UW-Madison site visit will be prepared and shared with the BCC and the 2026 BCCE Organizing Team.
- The BCC will continue to revise the initial drafts of BCCE workshop policies and work with the 2024 BCCE Organizing Team to communicate these to BCCE presenters and participants.
- The Biennial Conference Committee will be working with the University of Wisconsin to approve a conference budget and MOA during the fall of 2023.
- Letters of Intent to host the 2028 BCCE are due in December of 2023, with full proposals to be submitted the following spring. The Biennial Conference Committee will remind and recruit institutions to submit Letters of Intent before the deadline.
- A subcommittee of the Biennial Conference Committee will begin to develop a plan for succession planning for the role of the meeting planning partner.
- A subcommittee of the Biennial Conference Committee will begin to review and update its webpage and operations manual.
Did your committee request funding from DivCHED in the past budget year?
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