{"id":8,"date":"2013-02-06T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancini.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-04-10T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:31:55","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the 2013 SWAAC Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Let me personally invite you to the 2013 Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) Conference, to be held in Brandon, MB.\u00a0 SWAAC is about many things &#8211; innovation, action and support &#8211; that ultimately brings us together for a common purpose; the exchange of ideas and the support of women leaders within Canadian universities and post-secondary institutions.\u00a0 To my SWAAC colleagues, I welcome you to what will be another engaging conference involving top leaders in our nation&#8217;s post-secondary sector.\u00a0 To those new members considering attending, I know that you will\u00a0be both inspired and fulfilled by taking part.\u00a0 Together, we grow stronger; developing our personal leadership skills, and mentoring senior managers and administrators of the future.\u00a0 Together, our voice is clear, our abilities unmistakable.\u00a0 Join me in Brandon, May 2-4.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nWarm regards,<br \/>\nDeborah<\/p>\n<p>Deborah C. Poff, PhD<br \/>\nPresident and Vice-Chancellor<br \/>\nBrandon University<\/p>\n<h2>About SWAAC<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaac.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada<\/a> organization was founded in 1987 to provide a forum and a collective voice for women in senior administrative ranks in Canadian universities, colleges and technical institutes.\u00a0 The primary purpose of SWAAC is the promotion of female leadership in Canadian universities, colleges and technical institutes through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing and enhancing leadership skills<\/li>\n<li>Mentoring future leaders<\/li>\n<li>Recognizing exceptional leaders<\/li>\n<li>Networking and communicating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Registration<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"nb\">Note<\/span> <a title=\"Registration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/registration\/\">Registration<\/a> for SWAAC 2013 will close on <strong>April 29th, 2013<\/strong> at 12:00 noon Central Daylight Time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/registration\">Register now<\/a> to take advantage of the <em><strong>extended <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u201cearly bird\u201d pricing.\u00a0 <strong>Before April 8, 2013<\/strong> fees are as follows: $445 for SWAAC members, $545 for non-members and $395 for students.\u00a0 <strong>After April 8, 2013<\/strong> fees increase by $50 to $495 for SWAAC members, $595 for non-members and $445 for students.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p>For further information on the conference, please contact Charlotte Magee,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Administrative Officer to the President<\/span><\/span>, by email at\u00a0<a href=\"m&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;M&#97;&#103;&#101;&#x65;&#x63;&#x40;br&#97;&#110;&#x64;&#x6f;&#x6e;u&#46;&#99;&#97;\">&#109;a&#x67;e&#x65;c&#x40;b&#x72;&#97;&#x6e;&#100;&#x6f;&#110;&#x75;&#46;c&#97;<\/a>.\u00a0 For information regarding registrations, please contact Erlin Zurawski at <a href=\"mailto:zurawski.brandonu.ca\">zurawski.brandonu.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let me personally invite you to the 2013 Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) Conference, to be held in Brandon, MB.\u00a0 SWAAC is about many things &#8211; innovation, action and support &#8211; that ultimately brings us together for a common purpose; the exchange of ideas and the support of women leaders within Canadian universities and post-secondary institutions.\u00a0 To my SWAAC colleagues, I welcome you to what will be another engaging conference involving top leaders in our nation&#8217;s post-secondary sector.\u00a0 To those new members considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":-1000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/swaac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}