Faculty Symposium Planning Guide: After the Event
| A Faculty Symposium is one of the most effective ways to gather together Christian faculty on your campus, and the event often pays dividends far beyond its immediate impact. This Planning Guide will help you hold a symposium on your campus. Use the directory to the Guide on the right to navigate to the section you need. |
A good workman is never done until the tools are cleaned and put away. After your symposium, your work is not quite over. There are a few important items to take care of before calling it a day.
Evaluations
We want to know what people thought of the event! Before the symposium, contact Lorrey Thabet and arrange to have her create an online evaluation form for your event. Ask all participants to complete the online evaluation. You may want to send one or two email reminders to ensure maximum feedback.
Take a look at this sample evaluation, and let Lorrey know what questions you would like to ask about your symposium.
Final Reporting
Please complete the following after the symposium:
- You may have attendees who did not pre-register and are therefore not in the registration database. Please make sure you add these people to the database before sending this final list of participants on to Lorrey Thabet.
- If you have applied for and received a Faculty Symposium Grant, you will also need to send a final income and expense report to Lorrey Thabet.
Faculty Symposium Grant Funds Distribution
If you have applied for and received a Faculty Symposium Grant and have complete your final reporting (described above), we will transfer the funds from our Faculty Ministry account into the InterVarsity account that you are using for this event. Questions about this can be directed to Lorrey Thabet.
Post-Symposium Communication
What you do after your symposium is over is key to your success in the future:
- Share the wealth of the event with others: speaker recordings, presentations, quotes from those who attended. Allow attendees to re-live the experience of the event at your symposium website. Here’s one example.
- Let attendees know about plans for next year’s event once planning is underway. Keep them in the loop and think about asking some of them to serve on next year’s committee.
- Let attendees know their feedback was heard by sharing some of the positive comments or reflections. Tell them if the event will change significantly the following year so they will know what to expect.
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