Call for Proposals and Future Institutes

2025 Presentation Proposals 

The 2025 Institute is being planned as a in-person and hybrid event at our regular location at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. 

Submit your 2025 Proposal

2025 Call for Presentations

Proposals are due Saturday, February 1, 2025
Decision announcements (accept, revise, decline): February 20, 2025

NOTE: ALL in-person sessions may be live-streamed for real time remote participation. All sessions will be recorded for later on-demand viewing. Recordings will be available a minimum of 3 months following the close of the in-person activities.

The NRADAN Inc. Board of Directors highly encourages, but will not require, masking and up-to-date COVID vaccination for in-person participation. More information about what up-to-date means for you can be found on the CDC website HERE >>

Track Session Information

Tracks are longer sessions intended to provide depth into a topic as a concentrated training and/or instructional workshop. Track sessions are a total of four hours of instruction broken into four, 1-hour blocks. All four hours of a track are taught within the same day and will be scheduled on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. There are no tracks on Sunday or Thursday. Attendees will attend a different track session each day and typically attend all parts of a given track topic. There will be a maximum of seven concurrent Track sessions.

Track schedule times are noted below and are the same whether scheduled Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday:
Part 1 of 4: 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Part 2 of 4: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Part 3 of 4: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Part 4 of 4: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm


Compensation*: $400 total ($100 per instructional hour) or complimentary registration for the full conference.

Submit a Track Proposal

Special Topic Session Information

Special Topics are shorter sessions intended highlight a breadth of topics with less depth than the track sessions. Special Topic sessions are a total of 1 hour and will be scheduled on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. There are no Special Topics on Sunday.  Attendees will attend a different session each day. There will be a maximum of seven concurrent Special Topic sessions.

Special Topic schedule times are noted below:
Monday: 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Tuesday: 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Wednesday: 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Thursday: 8:30 am - 9:30 am

Compensation*: $100 or complimentary daily registration.

Submit a Special Topic Proposal

Track Proposal

Track presenters will be required to provide the following:
- Resume or CV for each presenter
- Track title
- 3-5  sentences explaining relevance to rural audiences
- Track description (up to 300 words)
- Up to three track goals
- Title and description of parts 1-4, each up to 150 words
- Objectives parts 1-4 of the track

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Special Topic Proposal

Special Topic presenters will be required to present the following: 
- Resume or CV for each presenter
- Special Topic title
- Session description (up to 300 words)
- Up to three session goals

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Compensation is per session, not per presenter, and reflects a model of $100 per instructional hour. If a Track or Special Topic has more than one presenter, payment will be divided unless directed otherwise. As an alternative to payment, presenters can choose free admission, CEUs, room, and board at the Rural. Those presenting a full track are eligible for full conference attendance, while special topic presenters are eligible for daily attendance.