SHPE Office Role in Conferences

I was recently asked a question about SHPE National's role in the SHPE Conference and Regional conferences.

Several years ago, SHPE began to make an effort to have the national office take over the main responsibilities of the NTCC (now the SHPE conference). In recent years we have suffered turnover in the national office and as a result have lost the experience to run the conference solely from the national office. While the volunteer effort has been tremendous, especially in the professional development tracks, I believe it is important to ensure that the national conference comes back under the control and oversight of the national office to ensure budgetary control and consistency. At the regional level, this year SHPE National began providing assistance to the RLDCs and I will ensure that we continue to build on that support next year and provide more support to the regions that require the most help.