Attendees at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s annual conference for special event planners last month in Los Angeles represented 36 states, as well as Canada, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, and Greece. As a first-time attendee, I learned that campus events professionals are a unique audience facing unique challenges. A key concern among participants was budgets — not only working within small budgets but creating memorable, exciting events that are not, in the time of budget crunches, perceived as too extravagant.