July, 2007

Campus Events Professional - July, 2007 - Full Issue PDF
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Case Study: Serving Up an Extraordinary Event in an Ordinary Space
Although colleges and universities are typically gifted with a wide variety of intellectual resources, ranging from stimulating lectures to artistic performances, the one challenge most institutions face is finding enough space. For the event planner, this often means appropriating a space used day-to-day for other purposes and transforming it to use as a special event venue. With limited budgets as well as limited space, the emphasis must always be on creativity.

Contracts Tips from the Convention Industry Council
The Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) of the Convention Industry Council has created a report detailing terms, practices, and points that event planners should be aware of before entering into a contract to perform, purchase, or lease any space, service, or product for an event.

Legal Briefs: Gifting and Ungifting
Attracting donors for support of higher education can be difficult, but many schools have had great success in building development programs. But getting the pledge, or sometimes even the money, is only part of the challenge. Hanging on to the gift can be a challenge as well.

Resources
Two books are reviewed in this column:No More Ramen: The 20-Something’s Real-World Survival Guide and Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership

Editor's Letter
For me, summertime on a university campus is all about productivity. For many universities, July 1 is the beginning of the new budget cycle, so offices and departments have an entirely fresh, hopefully expanded, pool of money with which to fund their efforts over the coming year.

How Summer Programs Benefit Elementary-Age Children
The hot days of mid-summer invariably bring two things to most campuses: summer camps and conferences, and new budgeting cycles. In the rush of planning for all of these summer visitors, conference and program directors may be called upon to justify their program’s existence and funding and gain monetary and social support for continuation or expansion.

What Not to Wear? Expert Weighs in on Appropriate Campus Attire
Itis mid-July on most campuses, and summer is in full swing. For many, that means empty offices as students and faculty depart for vacations, a quieter work environment, and perhaps a more casual feel. Even the most proper event planner can succumb to the desire to don an ultra-casual outfit on a hot Friday morning.

You’re Never Too Old for Prom
By David Treber
Act like an adult. How many times have we heard that? As a collegiate conferences and events director who hosts proms, I would maintain that high school students are for the most part wonderful. It’s the adults who cannot follow rules.