Past, future play a role in this year’s conference

December 12-14, 2004
Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Chicago, Illinois

The year was 1974. President Nixon resigned. People magazine debuted, with Mia Farrow gracing the cover. And alumni, communication and development professionals from college campuses across the country debuted a new professional association too: CASE.

Thirty years later, democracy is still alive. People thrives (and so does Mia Farrow following her breakup with Woody Allen). And the Council for Advancement of Support and Education has expanded internationally. Regionally, the CASE V conference remains the international organization’s most popular conference with its nearly 1,700 participants and cutting-edge programming. Highlights of this year's conference include:

• A new Web and Online Marketing emphasis. Back in 1974, the electric typewriter was top-of-the-line technology. But, the Web rules in 2004. That’s why it will have its own series of sessions beginning this year. The new “Web and Online Marketing” emphasis will add nearly a dozen sessions, with topics to include: internet marketing strategy, e-mail marketing, blogs, Web sites for alumni and more.
  
  
• Collaborations with Association of Student Alumni Professionals (ASAP) District V. The ASAP leader on the conference committee is bringing a student flavor to some programming! Check out the sessions and see that students are involved in leading and participating in sessions.
  
  
• Traditional sessions you've known and loved. We’ll have the emphasis areas popular 30 years ago — alumni, development, communications, senior professionals, management and two-year/independent schools. (Only, they’ll cover the issues of 2004.)
  
  
• The Pride of CASE V. We’ll close the conference with the district’s first-ever awards presentation, complete with Chicago’s popular comedy troupe — The Second City!

CASE V programming has been great in the past — and you can expect only more in the future. That’s why we’re “Treasuring our past ... mapping our future.” Once again, it’s the conference you don’t want to miss.

See you in Chicago!