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March 2004
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| Small Catering Budget, Great Meal In most cases, food and beverages are an event’s largest expense. Sometimes, however, there just isn’t the budget for a feast. Fortunately, you can find ways meet budget requirements and please guests at the same time. Depending on the time of day, not all meals need to be multi-course, sit-down affairs. |
| Why Certify? Debates continue about the value of earning a Certified Meeting Professional or Certified Special Event Professional designation. However, recent research indicates certification has advantages for both the professional and the profession. |
| Highlights from the CASE Special Event Conference By Kathy Nelson, CSP, CMP, University of Nevada-Las Vegas 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. |
| 10 Ways to Maximize Your Event Budget By Monica Metzler, special events consultant, Noto Bene Consulting The key to maximizing an event budget is to start planning as early as possible, allowing yourself plenty of time to research the least-costly options. A time crunch will always cost you more money. Here are a few other tips to making the most of the resources at hand. |
| Making Your Guests See the Light — Inexpensively So you have a room with nothing on the walls and a twenty-foot ceiling or an outdoor venue with little or no atmosphere. Without breaking the bank, there are a few basic lighting techniques you can use to pump up the visuals. |
| Labyrinths — The Perfect Events Theme The next time you’re asked to come up with a theme for an event, take a gamble and say, “Well, I think labyrinths might be a good theme.” Of course, the campus stakeholders will be intrigued. “Labyrinths?” they’ll reply with interest. “Oh yes,” you’ll say with certainty, “Labyrinths are appropriate for any occasion.” And you would be correct in saying that — labyrinths are thought to be at least 3,500 years old and are found on every continent in almost every culture. |
| The Alumni Admissions Interview Returns Some selective colleges are facing an admissions problem other types of institutions might wish they had — that all of the applicants look so good on paper, it’s hard to tell them apart. In response, some selective institutions are asking alumni to help them find students who are not only academically strong but a good fit with the institution’s culture. |
| Education by Chocolate, and Other Student Activity Trends A surge of interest in fine chocolate over the past few years is having an impact on college students’ activities and groups. |
| Reading Shakespeare in 24 Hours Students of Wellesley College in Massachusetts will go down in history as having read the entire works of William Shakespeare — unabridged — in less than 24 hours. |
| Reasons to Party in March |
